Letter Roll Reading: Blending Sounds

Explicit Instruction/Teacher modeling

• Get out the four letter dice.
• Explain to the students that three of the dice have different consonants on all sides, and one of the dice only has vowels.
• Explain to the students that they will throw the dice, one at a time, until each lands on one letter.
• Model throwing the dice.
• Next, explain to the students that they must try to make a word using the four letters.
• Model trying to make a word using the letters on the four dice.
• If you can’t make a word, explain to the students that you must move on and hand the dice to the next player in the group so that they can try to make a word.
• If you can make a word, model recording the word on the recording sheet.

Guided Practice

• Put the students into groups of four. Pass out the four dice and worksheets to each group.
• Ask for a group of students to volunteer to model how to play the game in front of the other students.
• Have the students model throwing the dice, recording words, and passing the dice on if they cannot make a word out of the letters.

Independent working time

• Instruct your students to play the letter rolling game and create words! Have your students mark down their words on their worksheets.