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صفحة: 253
253 My Way, Teacher's Guide Pg . 153, Exercise 3 : Write . Teaching suggestion : Teachers are recommended to draw a picture of a cat next to the letter, as appearing ● in the Student Books . Draw lines on the board like those in the Student Book . ● Show the students how to write the letters / U / and / u / using these lines . ● Exercise 3 : Demonstrate how to write the new letter on the board . ● Emphasize the left - to - right and top - to - bottom directionality when writing in English . ● Have students point to the cat in their books . ● Explain to the students that the cat appears next to each new letter, to show size and ● proportion . Explain to the students that there are letters which start at the top ( cat’s head ) while ● others start in the middle ( cat’s neck ) . Some letters have a “tail” and extend below the line . Have students write the letters on the lines in their books . ● Challenge exercise : Have students practice writing the word “cup” on the line . ● Extension activity ideas : Have students continue practicing writing the new letter ( upper and lowercase ) in . 1 their notebooks . Print out large blank U pages ( see suggested sources in Appendix C, TG page 371 ) and . 2 have students color their U’s . These can be hung as a class gallery, taken home, or kept in folders for students to assemble into an alphabet book at the end of the year . Hold an umbrella design contest . Print out blank umbrella pictures and have students . 3 design them for Buddy, Tommy, or Zoe . Teach students the word “fun” and have them write words that rhyme with fun . . 4 For more information on teaching letters and sounds, see TG, Letters, page 23 . Pg . 153, Exercise 4 : Write . Have students name the pictures . ● Repeat the words and overemphasize the middle vowel sound, helping students ● distinguish the sound .
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