Race the car With V
Emergent Literacy Design
Rationale: This lesson will help children identify /v/, the
phoneme represented by v.
Students will learn
to recognize /v/ in spoken words by learning a meaningful
representation ( racing cars) and the letter symbol V, practice finding
/v/ in words,
and apply phoneme awareness with /v/ in phonetic cue reading by
distinguishing
rhyming words from beginning letters.
Materials: Wide ruled paper and pencil; chart with "Victoria
vacations with very venomous vipers ";
Construction paper
and crayons; Vera Viper’s Valentine (Scholastic, 2000); word
cards
With VAN, VENT, VAIN, VEIL; assessment worksheet identifying
pictures with /V/.
Procedures:
1. Say: The way we
write our words can be tricky. It sometimes feels like we have
to be a secret agent and break a code. Each letter in our
written language stands for something, and cracking the code
means we figure out what each letter stands for. Our mouth has
to move differently and make different sounds for each of the
letters in our secret code. Today we are going to be learning
about how our mouth moves to make the letter /v/. We spell /v/
with letter V. The letter V looks like an upside down mountain
and sounds like a racecar revving its engine. Our racecar will
need to go really fast to go up and down the sides of our
mountain, so its engine will need to be cranked up.
2. Let's pretend to race our car , /v/, /v/, /v/. [Make
the engine revving noise] Notice
where your top teeth are? (Touching lower lip). When we
say /v/, we blow air
between out top teeth and lower lip. Feel the vibrating “v”
on your bottom lip.
3. Let me show you how to find /v/ in the word elevator.
I'm going to stretch elevator out in
super slow motion and listen for my racecar.
E-l-e-v-a-t-o-r. Slower: E-l-e-vvv-a-t-o-r. I heard it, and I
felt my teeth touch my lip and blow air. I can feel the racecar
/v/ in elevator.
4. Let's try a tongue twister [on chart]. "Victoria
vacations with very venomous vipers." Everybody
say it three times together. Now say it again, and this
time, stretch the /v/ at the
beginning of the words. " Vvvictoria vvvacations with
vvvery vvvenomous vvvipers." Try it again, and
this time break it off the word: "/V/ictoria /v/acations
with /v/
ery /v/ enemous /v/ ipers.
5. [Have students take out wide-ruled paper and pencil]. We use
letter V to spell /v/. Capital V looks like an upside down
mountain and our lowercase V just looks like a smaller upside
down mountain. Let's write the lowercase letter v. Start about
halfway between the rooftop and the ground. I want you to draw
your upside down mountain, so the tip of the mountain touches
the ground. You will drive your car down the side of the
mountain to the tip, or point, and then, speed up your engine
and climb up the other side. Now I want you to make nine more
just like it.
6. Call on students to answer and tell how they knew: Do
you hear /v/ in
voice or
talk?
Vote or
sign?
Very
or
little?
Vest or
shirt?
Vain or
shy? Say: Let's see
if you can spot
the mouth move /v/ in some words. Turn your steering wheel
if you hear /v/: The, vacuum,
car, voice, Valentine, dog, vent, the, blue, sad.
7. Say: "Let's look at an alphabet book. In this story Victor
makes something special for his friend Vera. Can you guess what
that something is?
That’s right, it’s a valentine!” Read Vera Viper’s
Valentine, emphasizing /V/. Ask
children to write a valentine to the letter V, explaining why it
is such a wonderful letter. Children should decorate these
valentines. Display their work.
8. Show VAN and model how to decide if it is van or fan:
The V tells me to race my car,
/v/, so this word
is vvv-an, van. Vent: vent or rent? Rain, vain or rain? Nail,
veil or nail?
9. For assessment, distribute the worksheet. Students are
to complete the partial
spellings and color the pictures that begin with V. Call
students individually to read
the phonetic cue words from step #8.
References:
Vera Viper's Valentine. Higgins, Maxwell. Scholastic Inc., 2001.
Traci Leech: "MMMM MMMM Yummy Cake"
http://www.auburn.edu/academic/education/reading_genie/begin/leechel.html
For the worksheet:
http://printablecolouringpages.co.uk/?s=kinder%20letter%20s