Materials
• Matching game card set (Located in box in top of closet labeled "Learning Cards")
• Computer software Reader Rabbit

Focus and Review
You'll remember that yesterday we began forming words with letters. Today we are going to learn how words are matched with pictures. It is important to learn the meaning of a word in order to form sentences.

Objectives
• The student will discuss how a picture can be written as a word.
• The student will match a picture with a picture.
• The student will match a picture with the word matching the picture.
• The student will demonstrate matching on Reader Rabbit (included CD.)
 

Teacher Input
The teacher will use the following list of words and have students match each picture with the same picture:

Guided Practice
The teacher will pass out a set of matching cards to each student (Included in bags). At his/her own seat, the student will first match the picture to picture and then the picture to a word. The teacher should walk around to make sure each student is participating and demonstrating matching skills.

Independent Practice
The students will take turns at the computers playing the matching game on computer software Reader Rabbit.  The students should each have equal time on the computer.  The students sitting at his/her desk will silently read a book of his/her choice from the bookshelf beside the window at the back of the room.

Closure
Today you have learned how a picture matches a word.  Show Ex)  A picture of a goat matches the word goat.  We use matching to demonstrate how a picture and a word can mean the same thing.  Words can then be used to make sentences.  You have used the computer software Reader Rabbit to help you learn the skill of matching.