Students trace T and t, mark thumbs up or down for six pictures by first sound, and join dots to build each letter.
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Big T and little t each have a card with a solid model, three dotted letters with start dots and a blank line for writing. An arrow shows that the stick of little t comes first, before the short line across. In Thumbs Up for t?, children name six pictures aloud and give each a thumbs up or down, so non-readers can answer too. Build a T then has them join dots with one line across and one line down, which shows that both T and t are just two straight lines.
Watch the kite: the k sound, like t, is a quiet burst of air, so some children give it a thumbs up. Say "kite" and "tiger" slowly side by side and ask where in the mouth each sound starts.
In Build a T, children often draw the short line of little t on the top line, which turns it into a small T. Point to the two dots on the middle line in the t frames: the line across goes there.
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Students find and name capital T and small t and pick out pictures that start with the t sound and join dots to build T and t; it covers this one letter only, not all the letters of the alphabet.
Students say each picture name and listen for whether it starts with the t sound, which practises picking out the first sound in a word; blending, segmenting and swapping sounds are not covered.
Students trace and then write capital T and small t following the stroke directions; it practises these two letter shapes only.
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