Ogs on a Log!

Explicit Instruction/Teacher modeling

• Display the Phonics: "-og" Words worksheet on the interactive whiteboard.
• Model the process of tracing the letters and blending them so the students can hear each sound in the word and each word.

Guided Practice

• Display the Ogs on a Log Guided Practice presentation.
• Distribute one set of student manipulatives to each student.
• Call out a word and invite the students to find the word.
• Move the word so that it is placed on the log, and invite the students to do so as well.
• Lead the students in blending the word, saying each sound and then saying the entire word.
• Ask the students if the word is in the "-og" family.
• If it is in the "-og" family, the students will keep the word on the log. If it is not in the "-og" family, they will move it to the side.
• Continue with one or two more words.

Independent working time

• Tell the students that they will be working independently to place all of the "-og" words on the log.
• Have the students work to separate the words into two piles: words that fit into the "-og" word family and words that do not fit into the "-og" family.