Sticky Piggy
Beginning Reading Design
Rationale:
This lesson we will be working with the phoneme /i/. Short vowel sounds are
difficult for students to understand so it is important that they have ample
time to work with each sound. In this lesson students will learn to recognize
the correspondence i = /i/. We will
read sentences and identify "I" throughout and we will do a letterbox lesson
with i = /i/ words.
Materials:
pencils, primary paper, letter box letters, letterboxes, worksheets for each
student, copy of the book "Liz is Six" for each student.
Procedure:
1.
First I will write the letter
i on the board and say: "does anyone
know what sound this letter makes? This letter makes the sound iiii, like you
would say when you have something sticky on your hand. Listen carefully for this
sound in the sentence: Izzy the sticky
pig is swimming in the icky water, now who can point to the letter that says /i/
in sticky? Good, now can someone tell me another word in our sentence that has /i/
in it?"
2.
"Now I will say a few words
and I want you to tell me which ones have /i/ in them? Big or small? Stick or
branch? Swim or walk? Kick or throw? Sick or well?"
3.
"Let's practice writing the
letter i, everyone get your pencils
and write the letter on your paper 5 times each. Start at the fence and draw a
straight line down to the sidewalk. Once you have done that put a dot between
the fence and the rooftop."
4.
"Now let's start the
letterbox lesson, take out your letters and boxes, I am going to show you how to
spell the word "pig" first I will count the phonemes and notice that I need
three boxes to spell this out." I will place the letter
p, i, and g in the boxes to model for
them how to complete the lesson.
a.
"Now I want you to spell the
word, "tin" in your letterbox. Who can tell me how many boxes we will need to
spell this out? We will need three, just like for the word "pig" both of these
words have three sounds in them."
b.
"Let's spell out some more
words now, 3 – big; 4 – grid; 5 – swift."
c.
"Now I have flash cards with
all of these words written on them, when I show you the card I want you to read
the word to me."
5.
"Now we will read the book,
"Liz is Six" with a partner. This book is about a girl who has a pig for a
friend, one day her and her friend play baseball and something interesting
happens, let's read more to find out."
6.
To assess the students I will
give everyone a worksheet with different sentences on it. I will say the
sentences one at a time and ask the students to circle the words in the sentence
that have /i/ in them.
Example of Worksheet
Name:
Circle
the words that have /i/ in them.
1.
The big bug ran down the
hill.
2.
Billy's dog licked his chin.
3.
The cat sat on the window
sill.
4.
The fin on the fish is red.
5.
Our ribs are inside our body.
Idea
from "The Reading Genie" website:
Pegues,
Jenniffer "Picky Pig"
http://www.auburn.edu/academic/education/reading_genie/begin/peguesbr.html