Paddy’s
Playful Pay Day
A Beginning
Reading Lesson
Rationale: This
lesson teaches children about the vowel correspondence
ay = /A/. For
students to master the
ay = /A/
correspondence, they must have a basic understanding of spelling
and word pronunciation. In this lesson, students should be able
to recognize, spell words using letterboxes, and read words
containing the correspondence ay = /A/. They will use games to remember the
phrase Pay Day using fake money from the board game. The
students will spell and read words containing this spelling in a
Letterbox lesson, and read a decodable book that focuses on the
correspondence ay =
/A/.
Materials: 20
colored fake money from the game Pay Day; cover-up critter;
whiteboard or smartboard Elkonin boxes for modeling and
individual Elkonin boxes for each student; letter manipulatives
for each child and magnetic or smartboard letters for teacher:
d, a,y, w, l, a, k, p, s, t, r, c, e; list of spelling words on
poster or whiteboard to read: day, play, Kay, pay, stray, cake;
decodable text: Paddy’s Pay Day, and 20 assessment worksheets.
Procedures:
1. Teacher
says, “Reading starts by breaking up and understanding letters
then putting them together to make words. We have already
learned to read long A vowel words like cake, ape, sake, and Amy
but today we are going to learn about
ay saying the long A
also. When I say /A/ think about the play Pay Day money because
pay and day both have the
ay= /A/ sound.
2. Say: Before
we learn about the spelling of ay=/A/, we need to practice hearing it in words. Listen to the word
“okay”. Do you see how there are four letters but you only hear
three sounds? When the a is next to the y, they combine and make
the A sound. Everyone say A. Now, look at your partner’s mouth
when they say A. Make sure all of our mouths look the same.
Everyone say “play”. Watch your mouth and listen to how there
are only three sounds made.
3. Say: What if
I want to spell the word stray? The stray puppy walked up to Amy
and me. Stray means lost in this sentence. Next, we need to know
how many boxes we need for our letterbox. How many phonemes are
in ‘stray’? Let’s count: /s//t//r//A//. I need 4 boxes. I heard
The word starts
with /s/, that’s easy; I need an s. Now it gets a little tricky
so I’m
going to say it
slowly, /s//t//r//A//. I think I heard /t/ so I’ll put a t right
after the s. One more
before the /A/,
I think it sounds like a roaring /r/. I have one empty box now.
[Point to letters in boxes when stretching out the word:
/s//t//r//A//.] The missing one is
/ay/.
4. Say: Now I’m
going to have you spell some words in letterboxes. You’ll start
out easy with
two boxes for
‘day’. What should go in the first box? [Respond to children’s
answers]. What goes in the second box? [Observe progress.] The
teacher will pronounce the remaining words listed below and have
the children wave their fake money in the air when they hear the
/ay/=A sound to
model the A sound in the words. [Allow children to spell
remaining words: Kay, pay, stray, play, and review word cake].
5. Say: Now I
am going to let you read the words you’ve spelled. [Have
children read words in
unison.
Afterwards, call on individuals to read one word on the list
until everyone has had a
turn.]
6. Say: You’ve
done a great job reading words with our new spelling for
ay=A. Now we
are going to
read a book called Paddy’s Pay Day. This is a book about a dog
named Paddy who is in the circus. He goes shopping and buys
several things! I wonder what Paddy will buy? Let’s read to find
out! [Children pair up and take turns reading alternate pages
each while teacher walks around the room monitoring progress.
After individual paired reading, the class rereads aloud
together, and stops between page turns to discuss the plot.]
Finally, each students will take their fake money and when Paddy
buys something in the book, the students will return some money
acting like they are buying it too.
7. Say: Before
we finish up with our lesson about one way to spell ay=/A/ I want to see
how
you can solve a
reading problem. On this worksheet, there are several clues to
the picture shown. Your job is to use the clues and the picture
to figure out which ay word fits correctly. Reread your answers
to see if they make sense. [Collect worksheets to evaluate
individual child progress.]
Resources:
Assessment
worksheet:
http://www.free-phonics-worksheets.com/html/phonics_worksheet_v2-02.html
Day, Alexandra.
Paddy’s Pay Day.
Penguin Group, 1989.
Craig,
Kimberly. Ellie the Elephant.
http://www.auburn.edu/academic/education/reading_genie/adventures/craigbr.htm