Sam the Slithering Snake
Emergent Literacy
Rationale:
In this lesson, children will identify /s/ the phoneme represented by S. The
student will learn to recognize /s/ in spoken words by learning a meaningful
representation (slithering) and the letter S, repeating a tongue tickler with
/s/, and practice finding the phoneme/s/ in spoken words through the use of
phonemic awareness in phonetic cue reading.
Materials:
-Tongue tickler "Sam the slithering snake slid by Sally the snail"
-Primary paper
-Pencils
- "What Begins with S" worksheet
Procedures:
1. "Today
we are going to learn about the letter 's' and the sound it makes. The letter S
makes the /s/ sound like a snake makes when it is slithering by.
Now let's make the /s/ soud.
Pay attention to how your mouth moves when you make the sound.
2. Now let's say the tongue tickler. I will say it then you repeat after me.
"Sam the slithering snake slid by Sally the snail.
Did you notice the /s/ sound that your mouth was making.
Do you hear the/s/ sound in sit or pit? saw or ball?
3. Let me show you how to find /s/ in
snow. I am going to say the word
slowly and stretch it out while you listen for the /s/ sound that a snake makes.
Sss-nnn-ooo-ww. Did you hear
the sound?
4. I am going to read a sentence and I want to see your letters each time I say
/s/.
"Sarah and Sue sat on the seesaw singing silly songs."
5.
I will now read a couple words together to see if you can tell which word
contains the letter s.
If you hear /s/ I want you to raise your slithering S snake in the air. Do you
hear /s/ in third or second? Happy or sad? Skip or run? Winter
or summer?"
Assessment:
I will pass out a worksheet. The students will practice
printing the letter S and decide which pictures begin with S.
Also, I will call students forward to individually read the words from number 8
above.
References:
Worksheet:
http://www.tlsbooks.com/beginningsoundofletters.pdf
Hollis, Haley. Slithering Snake Says 'SSSsssss"
http://auburn.edu/academic/education/reading_genie/realizations/hollisel.htm
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