Lesson 6 • the letter b
Learning objectives ban, pan, dan and bin, pin, din or bay, pay, day. Be
sure to reinforce the initial sound.
Children will:
• identify the sound b. Extra assistance
• identify words that begin with b. To differentiate /p/ and /d/, show students how
• recognise and write b and B. the lips come together to make /p/ and stay open
to make /d/. In /d/ the tongue starts behind the
Australian Curriculum Content Descriptions top teeth and pulls down, while in /p/ the tongue
Phonics and word knowledge doesn’t really move.
ACELA1439 identify and manipulate sounds Classroom activities
(phonemes) in spoken words
Buzzy Bee
ACELA1440 identify familiar and recurring letters and
the use of upper and lower case in written texts Sit in a circle. Everyone says, ‘Buzzy Bee, Buzzy Bee,
what have you got in your hive for me? Something
ACELA1817 know how to read and write some high-
beginning with b!’ Then students take turns around
frequency words
the circle naming something that begins with the
ACELA1819 segment and blend using onset and rime sound /b/.
Creating texts Decorate the Letters
ACELY1653 follow clear demonstrations of how to Provide the students with a piece of paper that has
construct each letter, learn to construct lower case many different forms of the letter b on it – some
letters dotted, some in bubble writing, some solid letters, a
Vocabulary words couple of capitals.
• trace over the dotted letters with different
bread, bag, balloon, bell, book, bone, bath, baby,
coloured pencils, textas or crayons
bear, bee, bank, ball, bat, boat
• glue collage materials such as paper bits, leaves
ESL/ELL or wool to the solid letters
Some students may mix up the sounds /b/, /p/ and • colour in the bubble letters with dots, stripes or
/d/. Teach them to pronounce these letters correctly shapes
by mimicking you using sets of rhyming words like
Reading Eggs TEACH PRACTISE APPLY
Lesson sequence Content and skills Children will:
Hear: Introduce the sound /b/ identify the letter b in Worksheet 1
Animated Lesson through words and the song isolation and in words, and as Phonemic awareness
Being on a Boat. an initial sound.
Write: Reinforce correct letter write the letter b. Worksheet 2
Dot-to-Dot formation of lower case b. Handwriting
Find: Recognise b in different fonts locate lower case b and upper Worksheet 3
Letter Grid, Trains and Birds in both upper and lower case. case/capital B. Initial sounds
Vocabulary: Build vocabulary skills: understand key vocabulary Worksheet 4
Letter Book and Label It Match pictures to spoken and and apply it in reading. Check
written words.
Read: Read aloud book. listen, follow the reading and Reading Eggs Alphabet book
Book read along. b
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Bb
Name
Phonemic awareness
Lesson 6 • Worksheet 1
1 Colour the bubbles that begin with b.
b
b
2 Match each letter to a picture.
b
a
b
m
b
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Bb
Name
Handwriting
Lesson 6 • Worksheet 2
1 Draw a ball next to each bat.
Buzz, buzz!
I’m Bee bee
bear!
2 Trace and write.
2 2
1 1 Circle
your best
letter.
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Bb
Name
Initial sounds
Lesson 6 • Worksheet 3
boomerang
1 Add b. Read the word.
b ee ear
all ook
ag ath
ell alloon
2 Draw the bug’s legs.
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Bb
Name
Check
Lesson 6 • Worksheet 4
1 Trace the letter. Join to a picture that begins with that sound.
2 Circle the beginning sound. Write the letter.
s i t t b m
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LESSON 6 • the letter b
b Draw Trace Write
bee
• b bb
ball
• b bb
book
• b bb
baby
• • b bb
bell
• b bb
bath
• b bb
bear
•
Activity 1
b bb
Activity 2
Write a b each time you read the book. Clap each b word as you read.
I read b _____ times!
I counted _____ b words.
Activity 3
Colour the animals Activity 4
that start with b.
Draw big, blue balloons.
I know words that
start with b. I can read the letter b!
Able to read independently
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Needs assistance to read
Bb
fold
Bb
staple
Level Word count Lexile
0 8 BR
Vocabulary words
bee baby
ball bell
book bath
balloon bear
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