Drum Roll, Please!
Emergent Literacy
Rationale:
This lesson will help children
identify /d/, the phoneme represented by D. Students will learn to recognize /d/
in speech by learning a meaningful representation of the letter symbol D,
finding /d/ in words, and applying phoneme awareness with /d/ in phonetic cue
reading. Through the use of
learning tools and practice, students will become more confident in their usage
of the letter symbol and phoneme of /d/.
Materials: Primary paper and pencil;
picture of a drum with embedded letter; tongue tickler: "David Digs for
Dinosaurs in the Dirt"; drawing paper and crayons;
Dinorella: A
Prehistoric Fairytale
(Hyperion, 1997); word cards with DOT, PEEP, DIP, DENT, PARK, and DATE;
assessment worksheet identifying pictures with /d/ (URL link below).
Procedures:
1.Today, we are going to investigate
the letter D. We will discover how
to move our mouths to make the /d/ sound.
We will use pictures of drums to help us remember the sound and symbols
for /d/. A drum makes the /d/
sound, /d-d-d/. When you make this
sound, your tongue should be tapping the roof of your mouth, just like you are
tapping a drum.
2. Let's play our drum!
Pat your hands on your lap and pretend it's a drum, /d/, /d/, /d/.
[Pantomime drumming your lap.]
Do you notice how your mouth is moving?
Your lips should be slightly opened and your tongue should drum the roof
of your mouth.
3. Let me show you how to find /d/ in the word
"wide".
I'm going to say the word
"wide" very slowly and I want you to find the /d/ of the drum.
Www-i-i-i-ddd. Slower: www-i-i-i-ddd.
I heard it! I could feel my
tongue drumming the roof of my mouth!
4. We should do a tongue tickler [on chart].
"David Digs for Dinosaurs in the Dirt."
Everybody say it three times together and tap your lap like a drum every
time you hear /d/. Now say it
again, and this time, stretch the /d/ at the beginning of the words as I point
to them. " Dddavid dddigs for dddinosaurs in the dddirt." Do it again, but this
time break it off the word: "/D/avid /d/igs for /d/inosaurs in the /d/irt."
5. [Have students take out primary paper and
pencil]. We use letter D to spell /d/. Capital D looks like a big
marching drum but lowercase d looks like the bass drum in a drum kit.
Let's write the lowercase letter d. Start at the roof and go down to the
sidewalk. Then, start a circle that
touches the left side of your line that goes down from the fence to the
sidewalk. After I put a smile on
your paper, I want you to make five more just like it.
6. Call on students to answer and tell how they
knew: Do you hear /d/ in do or it? Door or floor?
Sleep
or dance? Cat
or dog? Duck
or goose? Say: Let's see if
you can spot the mouth move /d/ in some new words.
Play your drum if you hear /d /: fish, donkey, bug, deer, bird, camel,
panda , fox.
7. Let's take a
look at our dinosaur book.
Dinorella is down in the dumps. Her
two dreadful sisters will not let her go to the Dinosaur Dance.
Even though her Fairydactyl drops in to save the day, the dance is
definitely not the dreamy date she thought it would be.
Tell the students to play their drums on certain pages when they hear
/d/. Then have each child draw
themselves as a dinosaur at the Dinosaur Dance.
Have them use invented spelling to name what kind of dinosaur they are in
the picture. Display the artwork
when everyone has finished.
8. Show DOT and
model how to decide if it is dot or not: The D tells me to play my drum
and tap the roof of my mouth, /d/, so this word is ddd-ot, dot.
You try some: PEEP: peep or deep? DIP: tip or dip? DENT: bent or dent?
PARK: park or dark? DATE: late or date?
9. For assessment,
pass out the worksheet. Students
will draw a line from the dogs to the pictures that start with /d/.
They will then color the /d/ pictures and the dogs.
The students will be called individually to read the phonetic cue words
from step #8.
References
Adams, M. J. (1990). Beginning to read: Thinking
and learning about print. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press
"Pretty Pig Penelope's Picnic." Farley, Timberly.
Doorways Fall 2011.
http://www.auburn.edu/academic/education/reading_genie/doorways/farleyel.htm
Assessment
Worksheet:
http://www.kidzone.ws/kindergarten/d-begins1.htm
Book:
http://www.amazon.com/Dinorella-Prehistoric-Pamela-Duncan-Edwards/dp/0786811730