Rationale: In order for a child to learn to read and to succeed at spelling, they must have the understanding that each letter of the alphabet represents a phoneme. Not only do they have to understand this, but they have to know what each letter of the alphabet is and what sound it makes. This lesson will help children understand that the letter ‘L’ is represented by the phoneme /l/. It will also help the child learn how to write the letter as well as say it properly. After this lesson, children should be able to positively identify the letter ‘L’ and phoneme /l/ in written and spoken words.
Materials: Primary paper, pencil, flashcards containing some words with ‘L’ and some without (ex: lake, look, land, fox, bush, car), worksheet for assessment, more flashcards with pictures of objects that start with the letter ‘L’ such as lollipops, lizards or lemonade, and a laminated piece of construction paper with this ‘L’ tongue twister on it, ‘Lindsey likes to lick lemon and lime lollipops’, and the 12 Leaping Lizards book by Jan Ramero Stevens .
Procedures:
1.
Introduce the lesson by explaining that every letter of the alphabet has
its own special sound as well as its own special way of being spoken by
moving our mouth. Ask the children if they know how to write the
letter ‘L’ or if they know what sound the letter ‘L’ makes. Tell
them that today, we are going to learn all about the letter ‘L’ and learn
how to recognize it when we see it in words and hear it when people speak.
2.
Have you ever told your mom or your dad that you love them? Well, The phoneme
/l/ for the letter ‘L’ sounds like, LLLLLLL. Who can tell me where
the LLLLLLL sound is in the word, ‘love’? That’s right!! At the beginning.
This is the sound we will be looking for throughout our time together today.
3.
Let’s all look now at the tongue twister that is written on this piece
of construction paper. It says, ‘Lindsey likes to lick lemon and
lime lollipops’. Now that I have said it, can you all say it back
to me? Good!! Now that you have all said it, let’s do it one more time
but all together this time, and instead of just reading it, let’s read
it in a silly way by stretching out all of the /l/ sounds in the words
that have the letter ‘L’. LLLindsey LLLikes to LLLick LLLemon and
LLLime LLLoLLLipops. Nice job everybody!! Now say that same sentence,
but leave out the sound /l/ in each word. Great!! Can you now see
how important it is to recognize and read all of the phonemes in order
for every word you read to make sense?
4. Now
that we all know what the letter ‘L’ looks like and how to make the sound
/l/, let’s practice writing the letter. Everybody take out your paper
and pencil. I am going to show you how to write the letter ‘L’ and
then I want you to copy what I did on your paper. Start by putting
your pencil at the roof and go all the way through the floor and stop at
the basement. Keep your pencil on the basement and make a short line
across the basement to complete your ‘L’. When you are finished I
would like to see how well everyone did. Great job everybody!! Now
that you are all experts writing our special letter for the day, practice
writing it 10 more times on your paper and when you are done I will put
a sticker on your paper. Now, you will always be able to recognize
a word with the letter ‘L’ or /l/ sound in it!!
5.
Now we are going to do a fun activity to see how well you remember what
we just talked about in our lesson about the letter ‘L’. Here are
some flashcards with a different word on each card. When I hold up
the card, raise your hand if it is a word with the /l/ sound in it, if
it’s not, don’t raise your hand. Terrific!! Now I am going to hold
up some flashcards that have pictures on them that also have a word with
the /l/ sound in them. When I hold up the flashcard, I will randomly
call on each of you to see if you can read the word and when you do, tell
me if the /l/ sound is in the beginning, middle or end of the word.
6.
Read, Twelve Lizards Leaping, by Jan Ramero Stevens and have the children
clap when they hear words containing the /l/ sound as I read. At
the end, children will share all of the words that they heard with the
letter ‘L’ in them!
7.
Okay everybody, now that we have learned all about the letter ‘L’, I am
going to give you a fun worksheet so I can see just how well you all paid
attention during our time today. In this worksheet you will see 15
pictures. You need to circle all of the pictures that contain the
/l/ sound and then write what the picture is on the lines given below each
picture. When you are done with it, turn it over to the back where
it is blank and write me a message using at least 4 words containing the
letter ‘L’. When you are finished with all of that, I will give you
some time (if you choose) to share your message with your friends.
Reference:
The Reading Genie Website:
Nancy’s Nice Nose
by Lindsay Dean
http://www.auburn.edu/~murraba/elucid/deanel.html
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