Gulping Down G!
An Emergent Literacy Lesson Design by
Elizabeth Bryant
Rationale: This lesson will help
children identify the phoneme, /g/, which is represented by the letter
G.
Students will accomplish this goal of learning to recognize /g/ in spoken
words by learning to use gulping a soda as a representation of what the written
G sounds like. They will also
practice identifying /g/ in words and be able to identify which rhyming words
have the /g/ sound in it.
Materials:
~ Chart with "Gary gulps grape
Gatorade."
~ Rhyming Word cards with GO BO
GATE DATE GOAT BOAT GAB CAB GAME LAME GOT HOT
~ Assessment worksheet
~ Pencils and crayons
~ Chart with the song "Gurgle"
Procedure:
1. Say: Every sound that you make
has a special mouth move that goes along with it! We are going to learn the
mouth move for when you say the /g/ sound the letter
G makes. Let's learn what this mouth
move is! The /g/ sound is made by opening your mouth and barely touching the
back of your tongue to the roof of your mouth.
2. Say: Making the gulping /g/
sound is like when you are drinking a big cup of grape Gatorade! Let's pretend
to drink a big cup of juice! /g/ /g/ /g/. Did you feel where your tongue is?
3. Say: Let's try this tongue
tickler! "Gary gulps grape Gatorade." Now let's stretch out this tickler to hear
/g/ sounds in it. "GGGGary ggggulps ggggrape ggggatorade." Now let's break up
this tickler into robot talk! "G-ar-y g-ul-ps gr-a-pe g-a-tor-ade."
4. Say: I'm going to show you how
to find the /g/ sound in the word golf. I am going to stretch it out really
slowly so I can hear the sounds and feel the mouth moves. Ggg-oooo-llll-ffff. I
heard the /g/ in golf and felt the back of my tongue move to the top of my
mouth.
5. Say: Now you try: Do you hear
/g/ in GULP or LAKE? Do you hear /g/ in GOT or BAT?
6. Say: Let's practice! I'm going
to show you 2 cards with words on them and ask you to say the words. We're going
to try to find the word with the gulping /g/! (make cards using the words in the
materials list to show the children)
7.
Say: Let's sing a silly song about the gulping
G!
We're going to sing the song "Gurgle." It is a fun song about drinking water
that will help us remember the /g/ sound. I will sing it first and then you sing
it with me!
gurgle, gurgle, gurgle
Went the water spout
gurgle, gurgle, gurgle
As the water came gushing out.
g,g,g, gone (pretend to drink from a cup)
http://www.scribd.com/doc/4640959/Jolly-Phonics-Letter-Poems
8. At this time, I will assess the
children with a worksheet. I will hand out the worksheet and ask the children to
circle the words that begin with G.
If they finish early, they can color the pictures that begin with
G.