Miss Piggie the Pig!
Emergent Literacy
Rationale:
In order for children to learn how to read, it is crucial that they be able to
identify letters and the sounds that they make. The letter- sound correspondence
will be the basis of reading and so that is why it is so important for teachers
to go over and specifically teach each letter of the alphabet. The students
should learn the letter or the grapheme along with the sound or the phoneme. For
this lesson, I will be teaching the letter p. We will go over the sound that the
letter p makes as well as what the lower and upper case letters look like so
that the children can identify the p in reading and know what sound corresponds
to it. My goal for today is to make sure that each student can write the upper
and lower case forms of the letter p as well as know the phoneme that
corresponds to it. I want them to be able to identify p in written form as well
as be able to identify objects that begin with the letter p. Each letter is
crucial to the success of a child's reading, so it is important for students to
learn this letter and accomplish this goal to move forward.
Materials:
A large picture of Miss Piggie the Pig (if a puppet or stuffed animal pig can be
found that would be even better)
Pencils
Primary paper
A board for the teacher to demonstrate on
Blank drawing paper
A sheet with different objects on it, some that begin with /p/ and some that do
not.
Example: a pig, a desk, a pumpkin, a cookie, a porcupine, paint, a peacock, a
prince, ice cream, etc.
If You Give a Pig a Pancake
Procedures:
1. Explain why:
-I would say to the students, "We have been learning different letters of the
alphabet and the sounds they make. Today we will continue that and learn a new
letter. Does anyone know why it is important to learn all the letters and the
sounds they make?" If they do not provide it. I will lead them to - "because it
helps us to learn to read, or because it will make us better readers."
2. Explain how:
-To begin the lesson of the letter p I will explain to the students how we will
move through the lesson.
3. Model:
"Today I am going to introduce you to my friends Miss Piggie the Pig. Miss
Piggie is going to help us learn more about the letter p. Does anyone know what
sound it makes? /p/ ppppp. That is the sound popcorn makes when it is popping in
our microwaves, do you know what that sounds like? Pppppp. Put your lips
together and try to push through with the pppp sound. Let's all say it. I have a
sentence that we will all learn that has a lot of pppp sounds in it. It's called
a tongue twister, So I want you to listen to my sentence first, and then we will
all repeat it together. Miss Piggie the Pig puts her pumpkin pancakes on her
purple, plastic plate." Then the students and I would all go through the
sentence several times.
4. Simple practice:
We will learn how to write the letter p,
both capital and lower case.
"Now get out your writing paper and your
pencil. We will learn how to write the letter p, starting with the lower case.
Start at the fence, go straight down past the dirt, then go back up that
straight line and near the top of your line go out and touch the fence and make
a little half circle, going back down to the dirt and connecting the straight
line and half circle.
I will be modeling this on the board, so
students can follow along with what I have done.
I will then ask the students to write the letter p out ten times. While they are
doing this. I will walk around and make sure everyone knows what it should look
like.
"Great job, now let's learn how to make
an upper case P. Ok, we will start at the sky and draw a straight line to the
dirt. Now draw a half circle down to the fence and connect it with the straight
line."
Once again I will be modeling and then
asking the students to write P ten times and I will be checking their work as
they go.
"Now that you understand what the letter
p looks like, I want you to draw me something that starts with the ppppp sound.
So get out your blank paper and your pencil and try to think of something that
starts with pppppp. If you can't think of something you can try to draw Miss
Piggie or her pumpkin pancakes, but try to think of something else."
5. Whole texts:
Since the children are really just learning their letters, it would be hard for
them to read very much. So I will just write a few short, but connected
sentences up on the board that include the p sound. We will read these together
as a class. We will also read the p page from an alphabet book and make the book
connection.
At this point I will read to them ,If You Give a Pig a Cookie.
6. Assessment:
I will provide a sheet of paper that has
ten pictures on it. Some of the pictures will be things that start with the p
sound, and some will not. Since these children are very young I will ask them to
look over the sheet and anything they see that they believe starts with the p
sound to color, but leave the others blank. If you have colored pictures, you
can just ask for them to circle them, not color them.
I will also ask the students to write me a sentence with one word that has the p
sound in it. In this way the students will be using invented spelling, thinking
of words with that sound and practicing writing.