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• Word Change
Tlingit-Haida-Tsimshian As a Second Language
Lesson 8
Grade 7 - Grade 12
Basic Reading
Decoding/Encoding
Mount the sight word cards on the chalkboard. Provide each student with writing paper and pen. Each student should then copy one of
the sight words, changing every second syllables in the word. When the students have done this, have a student read his "new word" to
the others. Call upon the other students to identify the word and then to name the origi nal letters/syllables that were changed. Repeat until
each stu dent's word has been used in this way.
Basic Writing
• Mysterious Writing
Provide each student with writing paper and a pen. Stand in front of the students with a pad of paper and a pencil. Hold the pencil in such
a way that the students can see the top of it but not the point. Write one of the sight words. The students should watch the top of the pencil
carefully until you have completed the writing of the word. Then, each student should write the word on his/her paper that he/she thinks
you wrote. Repeat this process with other sight words. Af terwards, review the students' re sponses.
• Wrong!
Provide each student with writing paper and a pen. Write the sight words on the chalkboard, purposely misspelling some of them. The students
should write only those words that are mis spelled, correcting the errors as they write the words. After wards, review the students'
responses.
• Silent Dictation
Provide each student with writing paper and a pen. The students should watch carefully as you move your lips as though you are saying
one of the sight words (do not voice the word). After "lipping" the sight word, each student should write that word on his/her sheet of paper.
Repeat this process with other sight words. Afterwards, re view the students' responses.
• Numbered Illustrations
Mount the vocabulary illustrations on the chalkboard and number each illustration. Provide each student with writing paper and a pen. Call
the number of an illustration. Each student should write the vocabu lary word for the illustration represented by that number. Repeat until
all vocabulary words for the illustra tions have been written. Review the students' responses.
Word Completion
Before the activity begins, prepare clozure cards for the sight words; omit letters and syllables. Provide each student with a clozure card.
Call upon the students to complete their words on the clozure cards by writing-in the missing parts. Afterwards, re view the students'
responses.
• Activity Sheet
Select an activity sheet from the Student Support Materials. Provide each student with a copy of the activity page.
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