CARD 43 REALISTIC FICTION
Cole for President
Genre: Realistic Fiction A story with characters that could exist and events that could happen in real life Summary: To get classmates to vote for him for class president, Cole makes signs, gives out notes with jokes and codes, and gives out decorated stones. He promises to work hard. And in the end, Cole does win.
Before Reading Connect Sound-Spelling: Long Vowel With Final e ( o_e )
Remind children that the short- o sound is the sound that begins octopus . Write the word not for children and sound it out together. Then add the letter e to the end of not to make the word note. Underline the o_e spelling. Tell children that in note , the letter o and the final e work together to make the long- o sound. The letter o says its name and the e is silent. Then write the name Cole and have a volunteer circle the spelling o_e in Cole . List other words with the o_e spelling and have a volunteer circle the spelling for the long- o sound in each word. Model Blending Sounds to Make Words Model for children how to use the o_e spelling to read new words. Write the letters v, o, t, e. Remind children that the letter o says its name and the e is silent. Run your finger under the letters as you slowly blend together the sounds to read the word vote , /v/ /ō/ /t/. Continue with code and hope . Practice Reading Decodable Words For practice, write the following words for children to read: Cole Cole’s hopes spoke home stones those notes joke code • Ask children to name the words with the letter s that makes the /z/ sound. • Ask children to tell what is different about the words Cole and Cole’s , and why Cole’s ends with ‘s. Help children understand that adding the ‘s to Cole shows something belongs to Cole. • Ask children to find the word that is something you say to make someone laugh. Introduce the High-Frequency Words: work, new Write the high-frequency words work and new in the following sentence. Cole will work on his new notes. Read aloud the sentence. • Ask children to find and circle the high-frequency word work . Elicit that work begins with the /w/ sound. Write the word. Then have children take turns reading, spelling, and tracing the word work . • Ask children to find and circle the high-frequency word new . Elicit that new begins with the /n/ sound. Write the word new for children. Then have them take turns reading, spelling, and tracing the word. • Help children write the words work and new . First Reading • Read the title and have children repeat it. • Introduce the story words president and signs . Write the words for children and ask children to repeat each word after you. Talk about what it means to run for class president. Note that sometimes a person who wants to be president makes signs to encourage people to vote for him or her. • Read aloud the story, modeling how it should be read, echo-read it, or have children whisper-read on their own.
Phonics Focus • Long Vowel With Final e ( o_e )
Decodable Words with Targeted Sound-Spelling • notes, votes • jokes, spoke, • code, codes • Cole, hopes, home, those
New High-Frequency Words • work, new
Story Words • president, signs
Phonemic Awareness and Sound-Spellings Reviews
• /ī/ spelled i_e • /s/ spelled c
Ask children to listen for and say the long vowel sound in each of these words. Read each word to the children. • nice price bike line glide • face place race lace space • rice hike spice smile wide Then write the words and have children name the long vowel and point to the letters that spell the long vowel sound in each word. Note the words that have /s/spelled c .
• Invite children to take turns reading to a partner. Listen to children read and give help as needed.
Short Reads Decodables
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