Beat the B
Emergent literacy
Rationale:
The students will be able to name and recognize letters and their respective
phonemes. In this lesson, the students will learn to recognize the letter
b in print and the phoneme /b/ in spoken words. The students will
practice writing the letter b as well as listen for the phonemes in spoken
words.
Materials:
Poster with
tongue twister written on it: Bob and Betsy baked brown bread for Barbara's
birthday, primary paper, pencils, bag of mystery objects (basketball, hat, book,
cup, pillow, blanket and bear), The Butter Battle Book by Dr. Seuss and
assessment worksheet with words that start with the letter b such as, baby, bat,
bee, ball and butter).
Procedures:
1.Write the letter b on
the board. "Can anyone tell me what letter this is? It's the letter
b!"
2."B
makes a sound that says /b/. The letter b sounds like a heartbeat.
See! (make /b/ sound while placing one hand over heart to mimic heartbeat).
Let's try the /b/ sound together. We hear the /b/ in ball (stretch
out sound as say it). Let's all say ball and really stretch out the
/b/ sound and practice our heart beats to help us remember."
3."Now let's try to listen for /b/ in
some words. Listen to me first. When I say bad and naughty,
do I hear the /b/ sound in bbbbad or naughty? I hear it in
bad because I could really stretch out the /b/! Notice where your
lips and teeth are (your lips are touching while your teeth have a space between
them) when we say /b/. Our lips touch as we pop our lips apart, but our teeth
never touch each other. I will say
two words and you tell me which word has the /b/ sound in it okay? In
bat or glove? Cook or bake? Breakfast
or lunch? Adam or Brad? Good job!"
4."Now we're going to practice our /b/
sound using a tongue twister. (Read from poster) Bob and Betsy baked brown
bread for Barbara's birthday. Now let's read it together. (read
again). Now this time when we read it, we're going to really stretch out
the /b/ and practice our heart beat each time we say /b/. Listen and watch
me first, okay? Bbbbbill and Bbbbbetty bbbbbaked bbbbbrown bbbbbread for
Bbbbbarbara's bbbbbaby. Okay great, let's try that together" (repeat the
same way).
5.Ask students to get out their primary paper and a pencil. "We use the letter
b to spell /b/. Watch me as I write this first. To make the capital
letter B: Go straight down to the sidewalk; around for his big chest, and
around for his big tummy. Let's all try it together. Go straight
down to the sidewalk; around for his big chest, and around for his big tummy.
Now, hold your paper in the air once you are finished for me to see, and once I
have looked at it, I want you to make five more uppercase B's."
(Next show how to make lowercase b) "Now we're going to learn little
b. Watch me first again. Start at the roof, go down, b-bbounce
up and around. Now let's all try it. Start at the roof, go down, b-bbounce
up and around. Quietly raise your paper in the air once you are done so I
can look at it. Once I have seen your paper, practice writing it the same
way five more times. Now you know that when you hear /b/ in words, you
write the letter b. And when you see the letter b, you know
that it makes the /b/ sound!"
6."Now we are going to look at some
mystery objects. I want you to raise your hand if you know what the object
is. When I call on you, you tell me the object's name and whether or not
the /b/ sound is in its name, okay? I'll show you first (pull out book).
Okay I know this is a book. Book. Bbbbook.
Book does have the /b/ sound in it." (Pull objects from bag: baseball,
hat, book, cup, pillow, blanket, bear)
7."Now we are going to read a book
called The Butter Battle Book. This story is about the Yooks and
Zooks who just can't seem to get along. You see, the Yooks live on one
side of a great wall and they eat their bread with the butter side up. The
Zooks, who live on the other side, eat their bread with the butter side down.
Will the Yooks and Zooks ever solve this problem? As we are reading, I
want you to practice your heartbeat motion every time you hear the /b/ sound.
So when I read The Butter Battle Book, I am going to do my motion for
butter, battle, and book." Read The Butter Battle
Book by Dr. Seuss, and students will do hand motions.
8.Finally, for assessment, give each student a worksheet with images on it.
The students will color the images that start with the /b/ sound and cross out
the ones that do not. (butter, ball, flowers, pants, bee, hat, bed, fish,
bat, baby).
References
Dr Seuss. The Butter Battle Book. Random House Books for Young Readers.
1984.
Dickson, Sue. Spell, Read, and Write. How to Print Letters (handout).
Keith, Cassie. "Hello, H!"
http://www.auburn.edu/academic/education/reading_genie/begin/keithel.html