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Sample Lesson from Teacher’s Resource Guide:
Unit 3, Activity A Complete My Sentence
Activity Overview: Children listen to and make up sentences that use alliteration to draw children’s attention to the initial sounds in words. Children use Reading Rods® Picture Rods to reinforce initial sounds.

Lesson Planner Sample:
Introduction and Unit 3

StarLIT Print Awareness & Alphabet Knowledge

Sample Lesson from Teacher’s Resource Guide:
Unit 1, Activity F Beginning or End?
Activity Overview: Using Reading Rods Alphabet and Picture Rods, children listen for initial and final sounds in a picture name. Then they identify the letters that make those sounds and connect an alphabet rod to the front and back of the picture rod to show the location of the letters in the picture name.

Unit 4, Activity E Can You Read My Mind?
Activity Overview: Children play Can You Read My Mind? and match words to the signs on which the words appear.

Lesson Planner Sample:
Introduction and Part of Unit 1 and Unit 4

StarLIT Beginning Phonics & Word Study

Sample Lesson from Teacher’s Resource Guide:
Unit 1, Activity B Read and Rhyme
Activity Overview: Children use letter rods to build short a CVC words; children use short a words and high-frequency word a to complete rhyming text.

Lesson Planner Sample:
Introduction and Unit 1