Lick Your Lollipop With L
Emergent Literacy
Rationale:
This lesson will help children identify /l/, the phoneme represented by L.
Students will learn to recognize /l/ in spoken words by learning a meaningful
representation (licking a lollipop) and the letter symbol L, practice
finding /l/ in words.
Materials:
Primary paper and pencil, PowerPoint with "
Lisa lost the large lemon for the lizard Lenny loved" slide, and "I Love
to Sing for the Letter Ll" poem slide; drawing paper and crayons; assessment
worksheet for each student
Procedures:
1. Say: Our language has a ton of "sneaky" secrets that we must know about each
letter in order to read successfully! Today we are going to learn about the /l/
mouth move. We spell /l/ with the letter
L. When I say /l/ I think of licking a lollipop.
2. Say: Let's pretend to lick a lollipop while sounding out the letter
L, /l/, /l/, /l/. Think about what
your mouth is doing when you sound out the letter
L. When I sound out the letter L,
the tip of my tongue is curled up and touching the back of my upper teeth and
the roof of my mouth. Sometimes, your tongue may flop down at the end of the /l/
sound. My mouth is also open.
3. Say: Now, let me show you how to find /l/ in the word
lake. When I say the word lake I am
going to stretch out the word as slow as I can and listen for the "licking a
lollipop" sound. Llll-aaa-k –e. Say it with me this time but slower. Llllllll-aaaaaa-kk-e.
Did you feel your tongue curl up and touch the roof of your mouth? I did!
4. Say: How about we try a tricky tongue twister! "Lisa lost the large lemon for
the lizard Lenny loved." Let's all say it three times together. Good! Do you
hear the /l/ sound in our tongue twister? Let's say it one more time but very
slowly while stretching out the /l/ sound. "Lllllisa llllost the llllarge
llllemon for the llllizard Lllleny lllloved." Try it again, but break the /l/
sound off of the word like this: "/l/ isa." All together now: "/l/isa /l/ost the
/l/arge /l/emon for the /l/izard /l/enny /l/oved." Great job!
5. Say: Let's practice spotting the /l/ sound in one of two words! Do you hear
/l/ in late or cake? less or mess? lost or boss?
melt or met? cool or new? Let's get trickier and spot the
/l/ sound in one word. Lick your lollipop when you hear /l/ in these words:
least, call, filth, bold, below, allow,
rolling, balance, hello. We should have heard /l/ in all of these words.
7. Say: Let's read a poem about the letter
L. Read "I Love to Sing for the
Letter Ll" poem in the tune to "Deck The Halls." Display on the SmartBoard.
I love to sing for the letter Ll,
La-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la,
I like the things that Ll can tell,
La-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la,
Light the lamp and lick the lollipop,
La-la-la, la-la-la, la-la-la,
I just love the letter Ll,
La-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la.
Have children join in and read/sing the poem multiple times.
8. Say: Let's practice writing capital and lower case letter
L. I am going to write capital and
lowercase L on the board. To write a capital
L you "pull down a line and add a
lap. Lie down, lazy! It's time for a nap!" Now you write the capital letter L
ten times. Once students are done introduce lowercase letter
L. While writing a lower case
L on the board say "little l looks
like a number one. Just draw a line and you are done!" Now you write the
lowercase letter L ten times. Walk
around room and observe students.
9. Say: I want you to draw ten lollipops on your paper. Think of words that
start with L. Once you have drawn all
ten of your lollipops write words with the /l/ sound in each of the lollipops.
Students are encouraged to use inventive spelling.
8. For the assessment, have students color the picture that begins with the
letter sound /l/ on the assessment worksheet.
Resource:
Letter Ll by Sandra Jones
http://www.mrsjonesroom.com/letter/l.html#activ
Assessment worksheet:
http://www.kidzone.ws/kindergarten/l-begins2.htm
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