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87 My Way, Teacher's Guide 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 students that the cat appears next to each new letter, to show size and ● proportion . Explain to 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 . ● Extension activity ideas : Have students continue practicing writing the new letter ( upper and lowercase ) in . 1 their notebooks . Print out large blank B pages ( see suggested sources in Appendix C, TG page 371 ) and . 2 have students decorate them . 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 . Some ideas : Busy Bee B’s : Have students glue black and yellow strips of paper to ● create a beehive of B’s . Basketball and Baseball B’s : Have students design their letters to look ● like sports balls . Origami : Teach students how to make origami balls . . 3 For more information on teaching letters and writing, see TG, Letters, page 23 . Pg . 39, Exercise 4 : Draw a line . Have students name each picture surrounding Buddy . ● If the word starts with the / b / sound the student should draw a line to Buddy’s ○ basket . Highlight that Buddy and basket also start with / b / . ○ Answer key : bird, ball, book, banana Words in order from L→R : bird, hat, notebook, ball, book, banana, gift, pizza
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