Vocabulary and Phonological Awareness "Clickety Clack Goes the Train"

Materials Needed for Lesson:
Clickety Clack by Robert Spence, Amy Spence, Margaret Spengler
'Word Family Train' booklet
Scissors and glue.
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Describe Instructional Delivery/Procedure: (Include modeling, grouping, specific questions asked)
Introduce story: (5 minutes)
Introduce title, author and illustrator.
Discuss the cover of the book.

Background knowledge/Predictions: (10 minutes)
Ask students if they have ever ridden on a train or seen train drive by.
Discuss how the train travels on the tracks.
Ask students to make predictions about where they think the train is going.
Ask students to think about what it would be like to be riding on the train with all of these creatures.

Read Story (10 minutes)
Before the story begins ask students to listen for rhyming words while you are reading.
Read Clickety Clack, pausing to let students fill in the rhyming words and the 'clickety clacks.
Read the story aloud for enjoyment and discuss events throughout the story.

Complete Rhyming Word Chart for -ack: (20 minutes)
Write the word 'clack' on the board and tell students that they will be going on a rhyme hunt for other words that rhyme with 'clack.'
Reread the story, page by page, and let students listen for rhyming words.
Ask students to raise their hands when they hear a word that rhymes with 'clack'.
When a student finds a rhyming word ask everyone if they agree.
Then, students can assist you in writing that word.


Closure: (5 minutes)
Review story and rhyming words found in the lesson.
For individual practice with word family rhymes, let each student complete their own 'Word Family Train' booklet.
In the booklet, there are four word families, with three words from each word family.
Students have to read the words on the train cars and then cut and glue the corresponding picture above each car.
Preview next lesson.