Warm
Your Hands with
H
Lesson Design: Emergent Literacy
Rationale:
This
lesson will help children identify /h/, the phoneme represented by
H.
Students will learn to recognize /h/ in spoken words by learning a
meaningful representation (blowing hot air on hands) and the letter symbol
H,
practice finding /h/ in words, and apply phoneme awareness with /h/ in phonetic
cue reading by distinguishing rhyming words from beginning letters.
Materials:
Primary
paper and pencil; chart with "Henry's
hat has hip-hop hearts"; drawing paper and crayons; Dr. Seuss's Green Eggs
and Ham
(Random
House, 1960); word cards with HOG,
HER, HURT, HIT,
HEAT,
HIND,
and HATE;
assessment worksheet identifying pictures with /h/ (URL below).
Procedures:
1. Say:
Our written language is a secret code. The tricky part is learning what letters
stand for--the mouth moves we make as we say words. Today we're going to work on
spotting the mouth move /h/. We spell /h/ with letter
H.
H looks like two people holding hands, and /h/ makes the same sound as if
you were trying to warm your hands.
2. Let's
pretend to warm our hands, /h/, /h/, /h/. [Pantomime rubbing hands together and
blowing air on them] Notice how you shaped your mouth. When we say /h/, we blow
air out of our mouth.
3. Let me
show you how to find /h/ in the word
hurt.
I'm going to stretch hurt
out in
super slow motion and listen the air coming from my mouth in a /h/ sound. Hhh-u-u-urt.
Slower: Hhh-u-u-u-rrr-t There it was! I felt the warm air leave my mouth. I can
feel the air /h/ in
hurt.
4. Let's
try a tongue twister [on chart]. "Henry's hat has hip-hop hearts ." Everybody
say it three times together. Now say it again, and this time, stretch the /h/ at
the beginning of the words. "Hhhenry's hhhat hhhas hhhip-hhhop hhhearts ." Try
it again, and this time break it off the word: "/h/enry's /h/at /h/as /h/ip-/h/op
/h/earts.
5. [Have
students take out primary paper and pencil]. We use letter H
to spell
/h/. Capital H looks like two standing people holding hands. Let's write the
lowercase letter
f.
Start just below the rooftop and make a straight line to the sidewalk. From the
same spot, we will hop up to the fence and make a curve back down to the
sidewalk. I want to see everybody's
h.
After you are done, I will come around and give you a star. Then practice
writing five more.
6. Call on
students to answer and tell how they knew: Do you hear /h/ in pork
or
ham?
heart
or
toe?
hot
or
cold?
Hurt
or
skirt?
Hare
or
care?
Say: Let's see if you can spot the mouth move /h/ in some words. Rub your hands
together if you hear /h/:
The,
hurrying, hare, ran, home, to, see , how, happy, his, sister, Harriett, was.
7. Say:
"Let's look a book called "Green Eggs and Ham". In this book, Dr. Seuss tells us
about character how is very picky and does not like green eggs and ham. Rub your
hands when you hear /h/" Read page 20, drawing out /h/. Ask children if they can
think of other words with /h/. Ask them to think of object that begins with the
/h/ sound . Then have each student write the name of the object and draw a
picture of their /h/ object. Display their work.
8. Show
HOG and model how to decide if it is hog
or
dog:
The H
reminds
me of the two people holding hands,
/h/, so this word is
hhh-og,
hog.
You try some: HURT : hurt or
blurt? HAM: Sam or
ham? HEAT:
eat or
heat? HIND:
hind or
kind? HATE:
hate or
Kate?
9.
For
assessment, distribute the worksheet. Students are to complete the partial
spellings and color the pictures that begin with
H.
Call students individually to read the phonetic cue words from step #8.
References:
Bruce
Murray. Emergent Literacy Lesson. "Brush Your Teeth with F".
http://www.auburn.edu/academic/education/reading_genie/sightings/murrayel.html
Leah Impastato.
Image:
Bernie rubbing his hands. Steve "ColoradoGuy" Garufi.
http://coloradoguy.com/highpoint-newjersey.htm
Book: Dr.
Seuss. Green Eggs and Ham.
Assessment
worksheet:
http://www.kidzone.ws/kindergarten/h-begins2.htm
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