Emergent Literacy Lesson Design
Ginger
Outlaw
Emergent Literacy Lesson Design
Ginger
Outlaw
Rationale: Phonemic is a prerequisite for phonics knowledge, spelling development, and word recognition, and is the predictor of later reading and spelling achievement (Eldredge p.27). In this lesson, students should learn short u or /u/ through a variety of tasks such as tongue twisters and listening for /u/ in spoken words.
Materials:
1. Chart with the phrase, "Ugly duckling
was upset because he was unusual."
2. Students will need primary grade paper
and pencil
3. The book The Lucky Duck
4. Star stickers
Procedures:
1. Introduce the lesson by letting students
know that reading and writing can sometimes be quite confusing. There
are many different sounds and letters to learn, but today we are just going
to focus on /u/. This is short u. Notice the way your mouth
moves as you say /u/. Your lips should stick out very little and
your tongue should lay flat in your mouth.
2. Ask students, "Has anyone ever asked
you a question and you did not know the answer?" Sure everyone has
and most people respond by saying, "Uuuuhhh, I don't know!" Well
this "uuuuh!" that people make is exactly the same as the short /u/.
This will be the sound that we are listening for today. Can you hear
the /u/ in the word fun? Stretch it out a little if you need to.
F-u-u-u-n!! Great! That's the /u/ sound.
3. Now let's try a tongue twister. [Get
the chart] "Ugly duckling was upset because he was unusual." Let's
all say this together now. Okay, this time around, let's hold the
/u/ sound a little longer. U-u-u-u-gly du-u-u-ckling was u-u-u-pset
because he was u-u-u-u-unusual. Let's do this once more, but this
time, let's break the /u/ off of each word. /u/gly d/u/ckling was
/u/pset because he was /u/nusual. Terrific job!
4. Ask students to take out their paper
and pencil. Now we are going to use the letter u to spell the sound
/u/. Ready? You'll need to start at the dotted fence and make
an upside down n all the way to the sidewalk. When you have made
your letters correctly, I will place a star sticker on your paper and you
are to continue writing u's on your paper.
5. Leave your paper out for another activity.
Listen closely to the words that I call out. I want you to listen
for the /u/ sound. If you hear it in the first word that I say, write
the number one on your paper. If you hear it in the second word that
I say, write the number two on your paper. [Teacher should keep up
with the order of words to assess students effectively].
Do you hear the /u/ sound in the word
bee or bug? up or clown? run or ran?
6. Read the book- The Lucky Duck to students.
After reading discuss book with the class. Reread the book and tell
the students to shrug every time they hear a word with the /u/ sound in
it. This will tie in with the title "Uhhhh! I don't know!"
7. For assessment: Have students to
write two sentences in their tablets that contain the sound /u/.
Model a sentence on the board. "The duck and the bug got stuck."
Reference:
Clark, Carolyn. The Lucky Duck.
Modern Curriculum Press, 1996.
Eldredge, J. Teaching Decoding in the Holistic Classrooms. Prentice Hall Inc., 1995. p. 27
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