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Ff

Emergent Reader Book -

Alphabet Instructional Routine

10 minutes every day

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Let’s Read The Letter

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About this book series...

This book was compiled by Dr. Laura Clarke based on concepts in the evidence-based “Explicit Alphabet Knowledge Instructional Routine” shared by Erickson & Koppenhaver (2020) in their groundbreaking text Comprehensive Literacy for All: Teaching Students with Significant Disabilities to Read & Write.

  • This book is part of a series of free alphabet books shared on https://bit.ly/Reading4All - Each book provides a step-by-step instructional routine and has a teacher script on page.
  • The images in each books comes from free sites including Unsplash, Pixabay, Pexels, Emojipedia Flaticon, TextGiraffe, and IFakeTextMessages
  • You are welcome to make copies of this book for your own classroom and make changes to meet your students’ needs. You may not sell any copy of this book or incorporate into other programs without written permission of Dr. Laura Clarke.

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How to use these books: The book is designed so teachers and parents can share digitally, or print a copy front to back. Teachers can read the script provided on each page to ensure fidelity in teaching this routing. This book can be used to provide the recommended 10-minutes a day of explicit literacy instruction. To learn more, check out the notes at the end of the book.

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Steps

Let’s identify the letter together!

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Ff

“This is the letter F.”

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F

“This is the uppercase letter F.”

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f

“This is the lowercase letter f.”

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F f

“Let’s practice naming this letter.

What is this letter?”

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Note: point to upper- and lowercase letters in different orders at least 3 times, asking students to say the letter names.

If students do not use speech to communicate, then say “Let’s practice naming this letter. Say it to yourself while I say it out loud.”

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Steps

What sound does the letter make?

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Ff

“This letter F represents the sound /f/.

Say /f/ with me.”

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(Provide stories, mnemonics, and key words to help students remember the sounds - the next few slides include examples you can use or change)

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fish

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French fries

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fly

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flower

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fan

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fan

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fans

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field of flowers

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farm

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farming

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fish

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fishing

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F f

“Let’s practice saying the sound this letter represents.

The letter F says /f/. Say /f/ with me.”

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Note: Point to upper & lowercase letters in different orders 3 times, asking students to say letter sound. If student does not use speech to communicate, change to “say the sound to yourself while I say it aloud.”

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Step

Can you find the letter?

Let’s look together.

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Note: the focus in this step is to recognize the letter in text & print

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“Now, let’s look for the letter in text.”

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Note: help students look for the letter in naturally occurring print, such as books, charts, signs, and other places in the environment that include print. Each time they locate the letter, they should state the letter name and the sound it represents. A few examples you can use are on the next slides.

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F

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I like eggs and bread for lunch.

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F

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A B C D E F G H I J �K L M N O P Q R S �T U V W X Y Z

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Steps

Let’s make the uppercase & �lowercase letter.

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Ff

“Let me show you how to write the letter F.”

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Note: Describe how to write the upper and lowercase forms as you write them. If students write with alternative pencils, ask students to write the letter using their alternative pencils.

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F

Note: Use the boxes to practice writing the uppercase letter.

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f

Note: use the boxes to practice writing the lowercase letter,

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The End

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Did you like the story?

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Concepts in this book were developed based on Erickson & Koppenhaver’s Comprehensive Literacy for All (2020).

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To learn more, use this link (which includes step-by-step instructions for teaching)

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Questions: email Laura at EmergingReaderResources@gmail.com

Another great resource:

Recipe for Reading

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