Plato
the Penguin
Rationale: Phoneme
awareness is a crucial part of
emergent literacy. It is crucial that
children are able to recognize grapheme-phoneme correspondences so that
they
learn how to map phonemes onto graphemes in written words.
For this lesson I will be teaching p=/p/ and
the letter P/p. By the end of this
lesson my goal is for the students to be able to recognize the capital
and
lowercase P/p, as well as recognizing that phoneme that they represent
is /p/.
Materials:
Paper Penguin
Tacky the Penguin by Helen Lester
Primary paper
Pencils
Sentence strips with tongue
twister: Plato
the penguin plays ping pong.
Large pictures (some using /p/ words
and others without)
Small pictures (hat, pan, pencil,
pizza, car, dog, plane, etc.)
“P” coloring page www.first-school.ws/t/alpha_tracers_dn1/p4.html
Connect the dot activity www.coloring.ws/t/animals/penguins/15.html
Procedure: I
will start by asking what letter makes the /p/ sound.
I will have a large cardboard P and p at the
front of the classroom. I will again ask
what letter makes the /p/ sound or if anyone can identify the letter
that is at
the front of the room. As a class we
will identify the pictures and decide if they begin with the /p/ sound
or
not. Have the students attach the /p/
pictures around the large P’s with Velcro.
Next we will practice how to write the letter p, starting with
the
capital then moving on to the lowercase.
Have students practice writing their p’s a few times on the
primary
paper.
To
assess my students retention of p=/p/ I will have a coloring page with
the
letters on it. I will have assorted
small pictures that they can choose from to find ones that begin with
/p/. If they can find the correct pictures
then I
will be able to see whether or not they understand the p=/p/ idea. Also, just for practice I will ask them to
write the letters a few more times on the page where it has practice
lines, and
for fun connect the dots on the penguin page.
References:
Zigby
Zigzag by Nicole Pender
www.auburn.edu/rdggenie/connect/penderel.html
Miss
Molly the Mouse by Rebecca Smith
www.auburn.edu/rdggenie/connect/smithel.html
Penny
the Pig Plays with Letter P by Ashley Rials
www.auburn.edu/rdggenie/explor/rialsel.html
practice
pages: www.first-school.ws/t/alpha_tracers_dn1/p4.html
www.coloring.ws/t/animals/penguins/15.html
Tacky the Penguin by Helen Lester,
Houghton-Mifflin publishers
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