"P explodes with a POP"
Rational:
This lesson will
help the students identify /p/, the phoneme represented by P. Students
will learn to recognize the letter p in spoken words by learning a meaningful
representation (take a fist then make it POP) and the letter symbol P,
practice finding /p/ in words, and applying phoneme awareness with /p/ in
phonetic cue reading.
Materials:
Pencils
Primary Paper
Chart Paper with tongue tickler printed
Alpha Tales:
"The Pigs Picnic" by Helen H. Moore
Index cards with POP, DOT, FUN, PICK, BOAT, PAIL, and P and p
Crayons
Assessment Worksheet
http://www.kidzone.ws/kindergarten/p-begins1.htm
http://www.kidzone.ws/kindergarten/p-ends1.htm
Procedure:
1. Say: Letters are symbols that stand for different sounds. When we learn all
the sounds to the letters we will be able to do so much more. Today we are going
to work on spotting the letter P. The
letter P (show the card) makes the
/p/ sound.
2. Take
you hand a make a fist. Let's pretend this (your fist) is a firecracker and what
do firecrackers do? They go POP! (let fist go showing five fingers) Notice that
when you say /p/ your lips are together and then you let the air out just like
your firecracker explodes.
3. I am going to
find /p/ in the word splash. I am
going to stretch this word out and listen for the /p/ sound. (Explode fist make
it POP). Sss.pp.lll.aaa.shhh. One
more time ss.ppp.ll.aa.shh. There I felt my lip go together and then pop out the
air in the word splash. I can hear
the /p/ in splash.
4. Let's do a tongue tickler. Look at the chart while I read. 'Peter Piper
picked a pair of pickled peppers' I want everyone to now say it with me and use
your fist when you hear the /p/ sound. Now say it three times fast. Now I want
everyone to break of the /p/ at the beginning of those words as I point to them.
'"/P/eter /P/iper /p/icked a /p/air of /p/ickled /p/eppers"
5. Now let's take out our paper and pencil. We are going to practice writing the
letter Pp. We use this letter to
spell /p/. The uppercase P you start at the rooftop and make a line down to the
sidewalk, then pick up your pencil and place it back on the rooftop and make a
sideways hump stopping at the fence. For the
p start at the fence make a line to
the ditch. Then go back to the fence and make a sideways hump that ends at the
sidewalk. After I put a smiley face on your paper go ahead and write 5 more
uppercase P and five more lowercase
p.
6. Call on students to answer and tell how they know they hear the /p/: Do you
hear /p/ in pen or bat? Pail or face?
Pig or fig? flower or power? not or pot? Say: Let's see if you can spot
/p/ in some words. Explode your fist when you hear /p/: stop, leaf, pumpkin,
lips, night, penguin, bird.
7. Say: "Let's read about pigs that are about to go on a picnic. What will they
pack? Let's read and find out." Stop and count how many p's are on different
pages. Have children explode their fist when they hear the /p/ sound. Then have
student write (use inventive spelling) what they pack, if they were going on a
picnic and draw picture.
8. Show POT and model how to decide if it is pot or top: The P tells me to
explode my fist and put my lips together then let the air out, /p/, so this word
is pp-ot, pot. You try some: DOT:
pot or dot? PAIL: pail or boat? FUN: fun or punt? PICK: pick or lark?
9. Assessment (worksheet)
Pass out worksheet beginning words with p.
Draw a line to the objects that begin with /p/. After they finish they may have
the worksheet to draw a line to the objects that end in /p/. Students may color
the pictures that begin and end in /p/. While students are working on the
worksheets teacher calls individuals for phonetic cue reading #8.
http://www.kidzone.ws/kindergarten/p-begins1.htm
http://www.kidzone.ws/kindergarten/p-ends1.htm
References
http://www.auburn.edu/academic/education/reading_genie/ticklers.html
Assessment Worksheets
http://www.kidzone.ws/kindergarten/p-begins1.htm
http://www.kidzone.ws/kindergarten/p-ends1.htm
Moore, H. (2001). The pigs' picnic. New York, NY: Scholastic.
Bruce Murray, Brush your Teeth with F
http://www.auburn.edu/academic/education/reading_genie/sightings/murrayel.html
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