FISH LIPS SELFIE COLLAGE SERIES

We play a quick little matching game to test out our fish lips. I also point out, that while fish and eagles usually aren’t buddies in nature (because eagles eat fish!), they are the ultimate reading buddies. We review Eagle Eye and discuss how we can combine the two to quickly figure out unknown words. This leads to introducing how Lips the Fish has the job of reminding us to look at the first sound. They quickly see how hard it is and we practice over sounds, noting which ones we move our lips most for. I have them try to make the /b/ sound without moving their lips. I quickly segway into how important our lips are for making sounds. We have a giggle over his big lips and then we practice making our own fish faces. In lieu of that, my daughter and I looked at some pictures from a recent aquarium visit and marvelled over the size of this fish’s lips! I found it at a yard sale years ago, and he’s since gone missing since I’ve stopped teaching. I then introduce Lips as a stuffed fish with big lips. We discuss different types, where they live, what the eat. Students typically have a decent amount of background knowledge about fish. To introduce this strategy, we first have a quick little discussion about fish. I want them to develop a strong understanding of the importance of that first sound in a word before moving on to sounding out the entire word. I typically spend two weeks on this strategy before moving on to the next. Looking closely at the picture and identifying the first letter/sound call almost certainly provide the context they need to decode an unfamiliar word. Level A/B books typically provide this support and help children quickly build confidence as readers. It also reminds them to use both pictures and words to assist in decoding an unknown word.īeginning readers need lots of access to books that have both repetition and picture support. It lets children dip their toes in the water to build confidence before jumping in. Lips the Fish is a crucial reading strategy as it is the first step to sounding out words. You can grab my Lips the Fish poster here or by clicking on the image below. We typically spend about a week with Eagle Eye before moving onto Lips the Fish.

However, I do introduce this very early on. When introducing this strategy, it’s important that students know all, or most, of their letters and sounds. Lips the Fish takes that strategy one step further and encourages them to pay close attention to those beginning letter.īy examining the picture and then identifying the first letter, they are able to very quickly to determine word possibilities. With Eagle Eye we are teaching them to use picture clues for support while decoding words. Lips the fish is a strategy that is the perfect follow-up to teaching Eagle Eye. We scaled back our fun with fish lips, though they didn’t lose their importance! I even had a parent ask me once if there was a reason “fish lips” helped them sound out words. Many of them thought their lips had to be in puckered, fish manner to use the strategy. It turns out that was slightly confusing to my sweet kiddos. When I first started teaching, in reading groups, when we introduced the strategy, we’d make fish lips for fun. I used to use a hand me down poster with a picture of a fish with ginormous lips. The second reading strategy I introduce, Lips the Fish, has had some funny stories through the years.

FISH LIPS SELFIE COLLAGE SERIES

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Fish lips selfie collage