Indicator 4

In my Video Rationale 1, the focus of the lesson was to pre-teach students words that ended in 'magic e'. So we started with our phonics instruction with words that would be in our decodable text. After practicing by building and writing words in our text. Thus, they were prepared to decode the book they were going to read. Then they fluently read with their whisper phones. We then go back to phonics instruction to further their ability to read and write words with the magic 'e'. By building, I mean that students blend the phonemes and spell them out of letter tiles. I chose this lesson as this book is at independent reading level for these students and they were not yet familiar with the phonics rule of the magic e. This gave students the opportunity to interact with the magic e rule in multiple, beneficial ways that further develop their understanding of this principle.