Letter Detectives: Case Study

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4. William will be able to successfully identify and frame uppercase and lowercase letters.
Letter Detectives
William will choose a letter to investigate. He is to search for it on food boxes, signs, magazines, and other forms of print. Then William can find examples of that letter to cut and paste on a sheet of paper. Once he investigates a few words, he can make a book out of the newly investigated letters (Strickland, p. 41).

Alphabet Book
Have a fluent reader read an alphabet book to William, so he can see pictures and objects that correspond to the letter. These books combine the learning of the alphabet with a story line such as the book Chicka Chicka Boom Boom. Therefore William will become more engaged and interested in learning
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There is one letter missing in each picture on the mat. So, William is to sound out the partial word while using the picture as a word clue. Then, William will need to pick out a letter tile that is the missing letter in the word. There are 12 different mats, so there is lots of practice for William to grasp the concept of a word.

6. William will be able to correctly identify and use the basic punctuations such as a period, question mark, and an exclamation mark. Beginning Punctuation Pack
The activity consists of a mini lesson to introduce to the use of the punctuation marks such as periods, question marks, and exclamation marks. A person will read 10 different sentences that range in punctuation marks. The reader will use their tone of voice to help guide what punctuation mark to use for each sentence. Once each sentence is read, William is to hold up the corresponding punctuation mark sign (TpT).

Pick the Punctuation
In this activity William will be given a worksheet that consist of simple sentences that are composed of high frequency words. William is to pick and color in the bubble at the end of the sentence that contains the correct punctuation from the 3 different punctuation marks: period, exclamation mark, and question mark

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