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Tlingit-Haida-Tsimshian As a Second Language
Lesson 6
Grade 7 - Grade 12
Basic Reading
Sight Recognition
• Sight Word Bingo
Give the students their “sight word bingo words” used earlier in the Unit. Each stu dent should lay all of the sight words but one, face down
on his/her desk. Say a sight word. Any student or students who have that sight word face up on their desks should show the sight word
to you. Then, those sight words should be placed to the side and other sight words turned over in their place. Continue in this way until a
student or stu dents have no sight words left on their desks. This activity may be repeated more than once by col lecting, mixing, and redis -
tributing the sight words to the students.
Decoding/Encoding
• Half Time
Before the activity begins, cut each of the sight words in half. Keep one half of each sight word and give the remaining halves to the stu -
dents. Hold up one of your halves and the student who has the other half of that word must show his half and say the sight word. Repeat
in this way until all students have responded. An alternative to this ap proach is to give all of the word halves to the students. Say one of
the sight words and the two students who have the halves that make up the sight word must show their halves. Depending upon the num -
ber of students in your class, you may wish to prepare extra sight word cards for this ac tivity.
• Group Spell
Group the students into two groups. Identify one group as "consonants" and the other group as "vowels." Say a sight word. Then, the students
should spell the word - the stu dents in the "consonant" group saying the consonants and the students in the "vowels" groups saying
the vowels. The students should continue in this way until the sight word has been correctly spelled. Re peat with other sight words,
switching the groups periodically during the activity.
• Where's That Syllable
Write a "syllables run on " on the chalkboard. To do this, write all of the syllables from the sight words in a mixed up sequence on the chalkboard
- leaving no spaces between the syllables. Group the students into two teams. Say a sight word. When you say "Go," the first player
in each team must rush to the chalk board and circle a syllable that was heard in the word you said (any syllable contained in the word).
Repeat until all players have played and until all of the sight words' syllables have been lo cated.
• Activity Sheet(s)
Have the students work on activity sheet(s) from the students’ support materials.
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