Pop
your popcorn with “P”
Emergent Literacy Design
Rationale: This lesson will help
students to associate the phoneme /p/ with the grapheme ‘P’.
I will use the illustration of the sound of a popping popcorn to help
students make this association. Students will learn to identify the /p/ in words
by using this illustration and associating that phoneme with the letter ‘P’.
Students will also practice reading and identifying rhyming words based on the
ending phoneme.
Materials: Primary paper, pencils,
Disney’s Alphabet A-Z ( Bantam Books, 1989), card with
picture of popping popcorn and letter P on it. hand mirror. Word cards
with the words: pop, mop, sop, pan, paint, pat, hop. Assessment worksheet
identifying pictures that begin with /p/.
Procedures:
1.
Say: Each letter
in the alphabet makes a different sound. Sometimes learning what sounds each
letter makes can be tricky. To learn the sounds we can pay attention to the way
our mouths move when we say the letter. Tell the students that today we
are going to talk about the letter P
2.
Show the students
a picture of popcorn popping. Ask the students what sound popcorn makes when it
pops. (/p/) Have the students practice popping their popcorn (this entails
saying /p/ over and over and opening their hands each time they make the sound
and immediately closing them back. This simulates popcorn popping.)
3.
Next give each
student a handheld mirror. Say: I want everyone to pop your popcorn while
watching the way your mouth moves in the mirror. Notice how your lips come
together and press inward then your mouth opens and makes a narrow “O”.
Say: Now I want to show you how to find the letter ‘p’ in the word lamp.
We are going to stretch the word out like this Llll-aaaa-mmmm-ppp. Did you hear
it? Now we are going to stretch it out while watching our mouths in our mirrors.
Everybody together, lllll-aaaa-mmmm-ppp. Lamp. Now check to make sure the
students notice that the /p/ is the last sound in the word lamp.
4.
Introduce the
tongue tickler to the students (on the chart). “Peter Piper picked a peck of
pickled peppers”. Have the students say it together 3 times fast. Next have the
students slow it down and emphasize /p/. Say: Now we are going to stretch out
the /p/ in all of the words. Every time we hear the sound /p/ we are going to
stretch it out and pop our popcorn with our hands (motion taught earlier).
Ppp-eter Pppp-iper ppp-icked a pppp-eck of ppp-ickled pppp-e-ppppp-ers. Next
tell students to try again and this time break the sound from the word. /p/ eter
/p/ iper /p/ icked a
/p/ eck of /p/ ickled /p/ e /p/p/ ers.
5.
(Pass out primary
paper) Say: The sound /p/ is spelled with the letter ‘P’ we are going to
practice writing a lowercase p. Make a little ‘o’ start at the fence and circle
down to the sidewalk but don’t go below it. Then bring your circle around the
rest of the way and close it up back at the fence. Next on the left side of your
little ‘o’ make a straight line that goes all the way down to the ditch. I am
going to walk around and look at everyone’s little p. After I put a smile on it
I want you to make 10 more.
6.
Call on students
to tell how they knew: Do you hear /p/ in
hot or pot? Paint or
marker? Up or
down?
Pan or Tan? Pepper or
onion? Say lets see if you can spot
the mouth move /p/ in some words. Pop your popcorn with your hands when you hear
it. “Penny picks purple pickles for pink pie.”
7.
Say: Now we are
going to look at an alphabet book with some of our favorite Disney characters in
it. Everyone turn to the “P” page. You should see a picture of Peter Pan and a
Pirate. Lets see what kind of ‘P’ words he can come up with. (Read Page) Now I
want you to come up with 3 more words that begin with ‘P’. Have students draw a
picture of the object and invent spelling.
8.
Show students POT
and model how to tell if it is pot or hot. We listen for the popcorn sound ppppp-o-t.
Next give them some to try. PAINT, is it paint or faint. PANTS is it
pants or ants. PRIDE is it pride or ride.
9.
*Assessment*
Distribute worksheet. Have students complete partial spelling and color the
pictures that start with /p/
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