READING and WRITING OPTIONS 

Writing Options: Word Work

Bottled Up Words, Names, or Rimes

Objective:

Students select a bottle (Baby Soda Bottles or Amenity Bottles), investigate the bottle's contents (word, letter, name, number, etc), read it, and match it to the recording sheet.

Materials:

Recording Sheets #1 .doc  .pdf  #2  .doc  .pdf  #3  .doc  .pdf  or Game Board

Baby Soda Bottles or Amenity Bottles:  Baby Soda Bottle Alternative - - visit a Dollar Tree store to see if they have 4 pack bubbles in a jar (resembling test tubes), then empty the bottles and use those - - KTEACH's Name Bottles

Letter/Number Beads

Water, Food Coloring, Glitter

When to Introduce:

After student names have been added to the WORD WALL, Name Bottles have been made for each student, and a NAME GRAPH is created, I then introduce this activity.

How to Introduce:

Gather as a class.

Give each student a bottle.

Model how to read the bottle.

Model how to match the bottle to the recording sheet.

Call students up to the front to read their bottle and match it to the recording sheet.

When all bottles have been matched, add the activity to the ABC Corner (center).

Differentiating:

Have students write a sentence for each name or word read.

Storage Ideas:

The "Bottled Up" game board is laminated (or put into a sheet protector).

The game board and bottles are then stored in a "laundry" basket.