This is a great introductory lesson to teach about beginning blends. Kindergarten students will love learning all about how to blend consonants together while reading a hilarious story!
Students will be able to identify and spell words with beginning consonant blends.
The adjustment to the whole group lesson is a modification to differentiate for children who are English learners.
EL adjustments
Introduction
(5 minutes)
Introduce the lesson by gathering the class together for a read aloud.
Display the cover and tell the class the title of the book The Very Grouchy Ladybug.
Write the word "grouchy" on the board and underline the letters gr.
Explain that today the class will be learning about consonant blends at the beginning of words. Remind students that consonants are the letters of the alphabet that are not vowels.
Define consonant blends as two or more consonants at the beginning of a word whose sounds blend together. Refer back to "grouchy" as an example.
Beginning
Connect to students prior knowledge by reviewing feeling words using visual aids to support understanding.
Intermediate
Invite students to turn and talk to a partner to share a time when they felt "grouchy" and what grouchy might look like on their faces or bodies.