Shake Out
Those Sillies!!
Margaret
L.
Pettey
Rationale:
In order for children
to read and
spell, it is important for them to be able to recognize letter
combinations or
digraphs. Digraphs contain two or more letters and are combined
together to
form one mouth move. Digraphs can be found in many words. For
children to
develop their reading ability they must be able to recognize and
pronounce digraphs.
One digraph that will help children develop this ability is the sh=/sh/.
Materials:
-Elkonin
boxes (1 set per student)
-Letter Manipulatives:
c,a,f,i,u,t,w,n,e,p
-Worksheet:
pictures of car,
ship, boat, shell, shoe, brush
-One Fish, Two
Fish, Red
Fish, Blue Fish (Dr. Seuss, 1960, Random House Inc.)
-Chart paper with
the chants:
(1.) Sh! Sh!
Stop that Noise!
Sh! Sh! Stop
that Noise!
Come on boys, tell all the girls
Tell all the girls to stop that noise!
Boys:Sh! Sh!
Stop that Noise!
Sh! Sh! Stop
that Noise!
Everyone: Come on girls, tell all the boys
Tell all the boys to stop that noise!
Girls:Sh! Sh! Stop that Noise!
Sh! Sh! Stop
that Noise!
Everyone: Sh! Sh!
Stop that
Noise!
(2) You've got to
shake, shake,
shake your sillies out
Shake, shake, shake your sillies out
Shake, shake, shake your sillies out
And wiggle your waggles away.
Procedure:
“Remember,
we are learning letters make different sounds by the way our mouth
moves. Today we are going to learn sh=/sh/.When when
someone is being
too loud what do we tell them? That's right! We say Shhh! Today we are going to
learn that when one puts s and h together we get the sound /sh/.” (Now do the Shh!
Shh! Chant. )
Let's
all practice saying the /sh/ sound.
Put your
finger over your mouth and pretend like you are asking the class to be
quiet. Let's say it three times together- sh,
sh, sh.
Great job! Do
you know what two letters make the /sh/
sound?
That is correct, s and h. Listen for the /sh/
sound as I say some words. Do you hear /sh/
in
wish or clap? Shovel or hammer? Plate or
crash?
Now we
are going to do the letterbox lesson. Get out your boxes and the
letters:
sh (taped together) c,a,f,i,u,t,w,n,e,p.
I will do the first one to show you what to do and then you will do the
rest of
the words. Remember when you do the letterboxes you need to put
each
sound in a different box. Letterboxes you need to put each sound
in a
different box. Lets also go back and
and
review our new sound : /sh/.
When the s
and h get together, they are too
loud. and we tell them : /sshh/. Thats
right! Let me show you how to spell the word wish using my letterboxes:
We are going to
use three
boxes. We are going to spell wish
/w/
PUT THE W IN THE FIRST BOX
/i/ PUT THE I IN THE NEXT
BOX
/sh/ PUT THE SH IN THE LAST BOX
Why do you think the she going in one box together? Right, because it
makes one
sound. Spell fish, ok now clear your board
Spell shut.
(Finish by
reading Dr.
Seuss’ “One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish” and doing
the chant Shake out your sillies!) What words do you
notice have the sh
sound?
Assessment:
For assessment, I
will pass
out a worksheet with pictures with the /sh/
sound and
pictures that do not have the /sh/
sound. I
will ask the students to color the pictures and write the word under
the
picture if it contains the sound /sh/
(letterboxes
will also be provided for a spelling scaffold). Words on the
worksheet:
car, ship, boat, shell, shoe, brush, drum
Reference: http://www.rainbowsongs.com/songs/shake%20your%20sillies.shtml
Sh! Sh! Stop
That Noise!
Emergent Literacy
Mitzi Milam
http://www.auburn.edu/rdggenie/chall/milamel.html