Grade 1 · Lesson 3 — Hearing and seeing MATCH

U0 · Square One · What a word is · student sheet is G1_L03_Worksheet.html
Touch each word as you whisper it. Then write how many you touched.

How we did it together — keep looking at this

Thecatsat.1one hop2say it · touch it · one hop each33 wordsThe hops stay. If my finger slid, there would be no hops to count.
Before you mark: Item 3 is the teaching point: elephant is long, and gets ONE hop. Do not treat a single hop as an error to correct — it is the answer.
  1. Fish swim.
    how many words?
    2
    Straightforward — the answer is the whole story.
  2. The bus is late.
    how many words?
    4
    Straightforward — the answer is the whole story.
  3. The elephant is heavy.
    how many words?
    4
    elephant is long — and still one word.
    If they sayone or two too many — they counted the sounds in elephantSay“That was 3 claps for ONE word. Can I say it on its own?”
Secure looks like: Given a four-word sentence containing ONE multisyllabic word and ONE one-letter word, the child counts it correctly both by ear and on the page, and can answer “how do you know?” with the spot test rather than by guessing.
As-Suffah Academy · Language Arts Lesson 3 · TEACHER EDITION