Dee (and Bee) and the Coconut Tree!
Emergent Literacy
Caroline Jordan
Rationale: Students often have trouble with the little
letters b and d. They often get the two confused. They will
identify both, write both, and find pictures that begin with both.
Materials: Dr. Seuss' ABC, primary writing paper, pencil,
chalkboard, chalk, b pictures, d pictures, Chicka Chicka Boom Boom.
Procedure:
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1. "Today we're going to go over all the new letters we've been learning.
Two of them, b and d, look a lot alike, so we are going to do lot of things
with them today. Who can remember our tongue twister for B?
Bob the Bear bought bread. What about for D? Davey Dinosaur
dined on doughnuts. Good!"
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2. "OK now take out your primary writing paper and pencils and we're going
to practice writing our b's and our d's. There's a little trick to
seeing the difference between b and d. When you say your alphabet,
you say a, b, c, then d right? So when you make a d, you can say,
'First little c then little d'" Demonstrate. "First little c, then
little d." Have the children say it as they write.
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3. Pass out the b sheet and the d sheet and have them write b or d on it,
then color the pictures that begin with these letters.
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4. Read the b and d pages in ABC.
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5. Read Chicka Chicka Boom Boom and have a different child identify the
b and the d on the page.
Reference:
Dr. Seuss, ABC. New York, Beginner Books.
1963. 63 pages.
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/letters/big/Bb.shtml
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/letters/big/Dd.shtml
Martin, Bill Jr. and Archambault, John. Chicka Chicka
Boom Boom. New York, Aladdin Paperbacks. 40 pages.
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