10 minutes

Sample lesson:

• Show the first overhead, Basic Steps in Using Word Patterns.
• Ask a trainee to pretend she is a learner.
• Cover up –at and –bat.
• Point to the word "cat" and ask her to read it.
• Place your finger over the first letter of cat and have your learner say that sound.
• Uncover –at and –bat.
• Point to each word on the list and have your learner say the word.
• Tell trainees they should:
  
  • Assist learners whenever there is an error.
  • Practice no more than 3 rhyming patterns each lesson.
  • Use this exercise primarily to increase reading, spelling and pronunciation accuracy. Vocabulary development exercises should be in a different form.
• Give optional handout, Personal Notebook or Cards and briefly discuss.

D: Labeling (Vocabulary Development)

• Introduce
  • what it is
  • who it is intended for
  • how it could be participatory
• Try the sample lesson below.
  
  
  You could do the sample lesson in English or in a different language. The Canadian Oxford Picture Dictionary ¹ is written either as a monolingual picture dictionary or as a bilingual picture dictionary. There are numerous versions of the bilingual dictionaries. Languages presently available include: Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Cambodian, Vietnamese, Spanish, French, Russian, Polish and Navajo.
  
  The sample lesson below would best be done using the The Canadian Oxford Picture Dictionary Overhead Transparencies. A handout of the page used for the sample lesson is included.

¹ E.C. Parnwell and Maggie Grennan, The Canadian Oxford Picture Dictionary (Oxford, England: Oxford University Press Inc., 1996.)