hot or not hot
Hot or Not Hot
Objective
Blend a beginning consonant or consonant blend with -ot to make words such as hot, not, and spot.
Lesson Plan
Target Words:
- hot
- not
- lot
- spot
- robot
Materials:
- Word blending cards
- Robot graphic
- Dot stickers or dot graphics
Overview
The children will play a game called Hot or Not Hot as they add sounds to the –ot ending to make words such as hot, not, lot, and spot.
Literacy Activities
Hot or Not Hot
- Show the children the robot graphic.
- Have one child leave the room while another child hides the robot.
- Bring the child back in the room to search for the robot.
- Have the rest of the children say “hot” if the child gets close to the robot or “not hot” if the child is far away from the robot.
- When the child finds the robot, give him or her a sticker or graphic dot as a reward.
- Repeat the game and allow different children to hide and find the robot.
More Practice
Cut words into sounds
- Cut each word blending card into its separate sounds, and say each sound separately.
- Have the children use the parts of the word blending cards to create -ot words.
Write about the activity using target words
- Have the children write words from dictation, changing one letter each time to create a new word: dot, not, hot, hit, hat, sat, mat, man, pan.
- Help the children write short instructions for how to play the Hot or Not Hot game using the -ot words they created with the word blending cards (e.g., Spot a robot; Get a dot.).
- Ask children to find a partner and have them say their instructions to each other.
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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/
51899
Hot or Not Hot