Cookies Sight Word Some: 4 Brilliant Ways to Share

Try the cookies conversation in two settings

At home. Set out several counters as cookies. Have the child offer some to a guest, then call for an exact amount. Ask what changed about the request, even if the guest offers the same number twice. Record one version as a short note.

With a class. Let two partners read the worksheet sentences in different roles. One says how many counters they have only if a listener asks. The other reads the sharing question. Check that both speakers use some while doing different jobs with it.

A first grade reader around ages six or seven may need oral rehearsal for a some sentence but manage the spelling with little help. Keep a pencil turn brief in that situation. Have an adult point to a clause or phrase and let the child finish reading it before asking them to repeat a more difficult part.

A slow rehearsal of the spelling some

Say some slowly and listen for the vowel in sum. The letters o and e help distinguish the written word some, even though the pair does not give a long o here. Finish the word with e when tracing. In the cookie search, mentally name all four letters before deciding whether how, think or walk can match.

Start the some tracing panel with an adult demonstration on the first pale model. Let the learner point at each letter and then write a single guided example. If the finished model is readable, use the independent space when the child has the letter order in mind. Point back to the large spelling after the new word is written.

Use the blank end of the line for one complete some. A child who leans very close to the dots can first write on a larger scrap of paper. Give them a moment to compare shapes and positions. Ask which letters are easy to identify and which need a fresh look at the larger model.

Read the cookie lines all the way through

I have some cookies.
Can you share some cookies?

Let an adult read these two some sentences while the child follows the print. Give the child a second turn in which they read as much as they can and get help with unfamiliar words. When they circle some, ask them to reread the sentence so it still sounds like something a person could say.

On a third turn, read the lines in reverse order and ask which one the child remembers by meaning. Look again at where some shows up. If finding it by sight was easy but making sense of the sentence was hard, return briefly to the opening situation before tracing again.

Four ways to check the cookies reading

Which cookies labels should get color?

The search choices on this sheet are some, some, how, some, think, walk. Read across the top row and then the bottom. Have the child pause on how and walk to explain something visible that makes each a different spelling from some. Color only once the group can show the exact match.

Let a partner cover one row of the Cookie Word Adventure search, leaving the other row and the large reference in view. Check the labels with a finger before asking for any color. Reveal the covered row after the first row is settled. That keeps the child from counting pictures they already checked during a second pass.

Use the search as two separate jobs. One child reads the some candidate out loud and another compares it with the model from left to right. When the children agree, use a soft color so a later reader can still see the whole word inside the picture.

Five signs of a stronger some reading turn

• Letter order. Ask the child to explain one difference between some and think.
• Sound and print. Listen together, then revisit the part of some covered in the spelling rehearsal.
• Controlled movement. Compare the spacing of one fresh some with the model above it.
• Attention to sentence details. Pick one statement from the cookies lesson and have a partner act it out.
• Independent reading. Let a listener who missed the first cookies turn read the new caption.

Give some a short place in tomorrow's reading too. Let the child find it once in the worksheet or in a new sentence you have written. End on a successful read and invite them to choose one cookies task for the next visit.

Keep a snack note open about the amount

Invite a child to say what they did with a small tray of buttons. Prepare three labels: some buttons, six buttons, and all the buttons. Try matching each label to a different version of the tray without forcing every pile to have a unique amount. Bring back the cookie drawing and talk through which label would fit a drawing that does not specify a count.

Prepare two drawings, one with a tiny stack of crackers and one with most of a box. Put a card reading some crackers between them. Invite a visitor to say whether either drawing could be sent out with that note. If a child wants only one correct picture, give each picture a count and explain why the original message leaves that information open.

Start again with no crackers on the plate. Give the learner the job of reporting what is visible without using a label that claims something is there. Then add several crackers and ask how the note has to change. Let a partner read the full report at ordinary speed so some does not turn into a very long, isolated sound in conversation.

More places to read after the cookies lesson

When the some lesson is finished, choose a brief next turn with practice with the five short vowels, a short at word family activity, or the separate practice sheet for eat. Ask what changed when the new task moved to a different word or sound.

Adults planning the next cookies session can use UF Literacy Institute’s high-frequency word materials or Reading Rockets’ high-frequency word teaching guide.

Print and revisit worksheet 06

The original some PDF is the free download. An eligible membership also provides the clean Cookie Word Adventure PDF. Print on US Letter in portrait. Check the line guides and word labels on a single sheet before making a classroom stack.

The $4 set places some on page 06 of the twenty-sheet PDF. Use the collection when you want a single download for the supplied words from of through know.