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Large letter cards for use by teacher (one of each letter)
Use these cards to activate the students’ prior knowledge of the letters and their associated sounds. After
reviewing the letter names and sounds, model the objective for this lesson by stating the name of the
letter d, identifying the photo of the dog on the photo array as representing a word that starts with d, and
placing one of the small d letter cards on the photo of the dog.

Photo array for use by students (one for each student).
There are five picturs of things that start with d, five of r, and five of t.

Small letter cards for use by students (five of each letter for each student)

After you model how to use the tiles, let the group of students support each other in guided practice:
Hold up the large letter card for any of the three letters and ask the group the letter’s name and
sound. Then ask the group to identify a photo on the array of something that begins with that letter.
Then ask the group to place one of the appropriate small letter cards on that photo.

Once it is clear that the group can perform the objective, clear the array, divvy up the cards again,
and ask students to perform the objective independently, with their own sets of small letter cards and
their own photo array, as you flash each of the large letter cards five times, in scattered fashion. Play
the game, evaluate, and reteach, until mastery.

Now that the students can consistently match letters with their names and with photos of things that
begin with the letters’ sounds, it’s time to evaluate students’ mastery of the objective of associating