Emergent Literacy
Design
Pop your Popcorn
with P
Rationale: This lesson will help students identify /p/, the
phoneme represented by P. Students
will learn to recognize /p/ in spoken words by learning a meaningful
representation (popping fist to represent popcorn) and the letter symbol
P, practice finding /p/ in words and
apply phoneme awareness with /p/ in phonetic cue reading by distinguishing
rhyming words from beginning letters.
Materials: Lined primary paper, pencil, chart with "Polly
put the penny in her purse",
drawing paper and crayons, "Hop on Pop" book,
word cards with FACE, PORK, PEST, SICK and POND, assessment worksheet
identifying pictures with /p/ (URL below).
Procedures: 1. Say: Our written language is like a code.
The tricky part is learning what letters stand for—the mouth moves we make as we
say different words. Today we're going to work on determining the mouth move
/p/. We spell /p/ with the letter P.
P looks like a piece of popcorn
shooting up, and /p/ sounds like a piece of popcorn popping.
2. Let's pretend to be popping some popcorn to watch a
movie. [Start making popping noise and popping open fist] Notice how our lips
move when we make the popping noise? They start together and open up to let a
puff of air come out [move hand in front of mouth to feel the puff of air].
3. I'm going to show you how to find /p/ in the word
skip. I'm going to stretch
skip out in super slow motion and
listen for the popcorn popping.
Ss-k-i-i-i-p. Slower: Sss-k-i-i-i-i-p There it was! I felt my lips come together
then pull apart to let that puff of air out. I can feel the popping /p/ in
skip.
4. Let's try a tongue tickler [on the chart]. Polly went to
the store one day to buy some bread. She gave the cashier her money and he gave
her a penny back. Polly put the penny in her purse. There's our tongue tickler,
"Polly put the penny in her purse". Everyone lets say it three times together.
Now say it again, and this time stretch out the /p/ at the beginning of the
words "Pppolly ppput the pppenny in her pppurse." Try it again and this time
break the /p/ off the word: "/p/ olly /p/ ut the /p/ enny in her /p/ urse."
5. [Give the students the primary lined paper and pencil].
We use the letter P to spell /p/.
Captial P looks like a piece of
popcorn flying out. Now let's try the lower case
p. Start at the fence, go straight
down into the ditch, come up and put his chin on the sidewalk. I want to see
everybody's p. After I put a check on
it, I want you to make nine more just like it.
6. Call on students to answer: Do you hear /p/ in
parrot or
gerbil?
Nose or
lip?
Apple or
banana?
Lift or
drop?
Veggies or
dip? Have them tell you how they
knew. Say: Let's see if you can spot the mouth move /p/ in some words. Pop your
popcorn hand if you hear /p/: The pretty,
purple dinosaur played pretend with his best pals.
7. Say: Now I am going to read Hop on Pop by Dr. Seuss.
This book is about two kids who love to jump on their dad.
Have you ever done that? To
see what else they jump on, we need to read the book!
As I read, listen for /p/. When you hear it, I want you to raise your
hands in the air and pop you fist. So we can make a list of the words that have
that /p/ sound.
8. Show PET and model how to decide if it is
pet or vet: the
P tells me to pop my popcorn, /p/, so
this word is ppp-et, pet. You try
some: PEST: pest or nest? FACE: pace or face? PORK: fork or pork? SICK: pick or
sick? POND: pond or bond?
9. For assessment, call on students to read the phonetic
cue words from step #8. Hand out the worksheet. Students are to complete the
partial spellings and color the pictures that begin with
P.
Dr. Seuss. Hop on Pop. Random House. 1963.
Assessment worksheet:
http://www.kidzone.ws/kindergarten/p-begins2.htm
Kirsch, Kaylyn. "Pop Your P's Like Popcorn".
http://www.auburn.edu/academic/education/reading_genie/doorways/kirschel.htm