Tick Tock Time to Learn
Emergent Literacy Design
Rationale: This lesson will help children identify /t/, which is represented by
the phoneme T. Students
will learn to recognize /t/ in spoken words by learning the representation of a
ticking clock (tick tock) and the letter T.
They will practice finding the /t/ sound in words through spoken language
and reading rhyming books.
Materials: Primary paper and pencil, chart with "Tommy tricked Tim and took his
train off the track", drawing paper and crayons, word cards with TABLE, TURTLE,
TOOTH, TIME, TRAIN, AND FABLE, Jim and
Tim, and an assessment worksheet identifying pictures with /t/ (http://www.kidzone.ws/kindergarten/t-begins2.htm)
Procedures:
1 Show picture of a grandfather clock. Say: Does anyone have a big grandfather
clock in their house? I do and my clock makes the sound tick tock tick tock. Can
you say that with me? While we say /t/ we are going to sway our head from one
side to the other just like a clock.
2 We are going to be working on finding the /t/ sound in our lesson today.
When we say /t/ our tongue touches the top of our mouth. Let's practice
saying /t/ like a clock, tick tock tick tock.
3 Jim and Tim has good /t/ sounds in
it such as in Tim. We will read it
later for other examples.
4 Before we read our story we need a little more practice with the /t/ sound.
Let's practice with a tongue tickler.
Chart will read "Tommy tricked Tim and took his train off the track".
Let's say it one more time but draw out the /t/ sounds in each of the
words that start with the letter T.
5 Take out your paper and we are going to write the letter T which
makes the sound /t/. A
T is a line from the roof to the
floor and a capital T has a top hat
on the rooftop and a lower case T has
a belt at the fence. After I have
checked your T's I want you to draw nine more just like them.
6 Now we are going to hear a list of words and when you hear /t/ I want you to
move your head like the ticking of a clock. Table, fable, tooth, booth, pan,
tan, took, book.
7 Now let's read Jim and Tim and when
you hear a /t/ I want you to sway your head like a clock again.
8 Show the cards with words that begin with T.
Ask the children how they can tell which words begin with T and
explain that we are looking for words that start with the letters we drew
earlier because the T makes the sound /t/.
9 For assessment the students will complete a "What begins with T" worksheet.
Students will complete the words and color the pictures that begin with
the letter T.
Mary Brown (1974). Jim and Tim, the
alphabet series 1. Educators Publishing Service, Inc.
Begins with T Worksheet.
http://www.kidzone.ws/kindergarten/t-begins2.htm