hit a wall with a ball

Hit a Wall with a Ball

Hit a Wall with a Ball
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Target text

Objective

Read and write words with the ah (aw) sound as in ball, wall, and call.

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Lesson Plan

Target Words:

  • all
  • ball
  • wall
  • fall
  • call
  • small

Materials:

  • Five ping pong balls
  • Bag
  • Hit a Wall with a Ball target text*
  • Video of a pinball machine in operation (optional)

*Items included below.

State the Objective

Tell the children that they will play with different balls and that they will read and write words with -all, such as ball, wall, call, and fall.

Literacy Activities

Introduce target words

  • Show the children the target words.
  • Comment on the sound that the letter A makes when followed by the /l/  sound, as in call, fall, ball, and wall.
  • Read the words with the children.
  • Read the Small Balls target text (see below) and watch the video (optional) with the children.

Call for a ball

  • Read the Hit a Wall with a Ball target text (see below) with the children. 
  • Each time the line Call for a ball is read, allow the children to take turns taking a ping pong ball from a bag.
  • Let the children take turns bouncing a ping pong ball against a wall.

Identify, blend, and manipulate sounds

  • With word-building cards (see below), have the children make new words by changing a consonant or the vowel.
    • Change the beginning consonant(s): cup → pup; hit→ lit; call → wall
    • Change the vowel: cup→ cap; hit→ hat; ball→ bill
    • Change the ending consonant: ball→ bat; hit→ hip; cup→ cut

Identify vowel sounds

  • Say target words (e.g., ball, wall, call), stretching out your arms and lengthening the vowel (e.g., Ball. b aaaa ll. Ball).
  • Ask the children what sounds they hear. 
  • Have the children to count the letters and sounds in each word.

Write words with -all from dictation

  • Read -all words with the children.
  • Ask the children to write words with -all from dictation. 
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SEEL Target Texts

Hit a Wall with a Ball

Call for a ball.
Call for a ping pong ball.

You can hit a wall with a ping pong ball.
A ping pong ball will not dent the wall.

Call for a ball.
Call for a ping-pong ball.

A ping-pong ball is small.
It is not a hard ball. 
You can hit the wall with a ping-pong ball.

Call for a ball.
Call for all the balls!
Call for all the ping-pong-balls.

You can hit the wall with all the ping pong balls!
They hit the wall and fall.
They do not dent the wall. 

Small balls

A ping pong ball is a small ball.
I can play with a ping pong ball.
A gum-ball is a small ball.
I can not play with a gum-ball.
A pin-ball is a small ball.
I can play a pin-ball game.
But I can not play with a pin-ball.
I can not get into the pin-ball game to get at the pin-balls.

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Standards

SEEL lessons align with Common Core Standards. Please see the standards page for the code(s) associated with this lesson.

http://education.byu.edu/seel/library/