Uh! Yucky U Stuff!
Beginning Reading
Rationale:
To become successful readers, students must learn to identify letters and
the sounds that those letters make. The student will learn the correspondence
u=/u/. The student will learn how to correctly say the phoneme and correctly
identify the letter and have plenty of practice with written and spoken words
which contain u=/u/, they will do this using (Uh! Yucky U Stuff!) and the
letter symbols U and
u. Students will practice identifying
the phonemes in spoken words and phonetic cue reading words. They will then
further their understanding of this phoneme through a letterbox lesson.
Materials:
Poster with tongue tickler, picture of a bowl of slime for each student, Elkonin
letterboxes for each student, plastic letters (d,u,g,s,h,r,b,n,k,l,c,c,t,p,m,p,z,z)
for each student, document camera, word list typed out (dug,
shrug, buzz, dunk, slug, crunch, hunt, lunch, plump, bust), book
Hunches in Bunches by Dr. Seuss to
read to class, 1 copy per 2 students of decodable book
The Ugly Umbrella for assessment in a
small group, worksheet on /u/ sound for each student.
Procedures:
1. Say: Today we are going to work with the sound /u/. You say this sound when
you see something yucky--like bowl of slime. "uuu. . .there's a yucky bowl of
slime over there!" We spell this using the letter
u. (Pass out a small picture of a
bowl of slime to each student and have them keep them out on their desk).
2. Say: So we said that we use the sound /u/ when we see something yucky. Let's
think about how our mouth is moving while we are saying "uuuu". My tongue is
touching the bottom of my mouth and I am opening my mouth just a little bit and
pushing the air out "uuu…uuu" Now you try it with me. When you make the /u/
sound I want you to pretend you are squishing that yucky
slime through your fingers. (Demonstrate squishing pretend slime through
your fingers and saying the /u/ sound) "uuu…uuu"
3. Say: Good work squishing out those U's
now let me show you how to find the /u/ in a word.
I am going to use the word umbrella
. I am going to say the word and then I am going to stretch it out so that I
really hear that /n/ sound. Umbrella.
Uuuu-mbrella. Yeah I heard my yucky U
in umbrella. Now let's try it together with the word
umpire and
funny.
4. Now, let's try a funny tongue tickler to practice our yucky
U's (poster).
Ursula put up her umbrella before she
went under the rain. Let's say it together. [Repeat tongue tickler
together]. Now let's stretch out those yucky
U's so that we can really hear them.
/U/rsula put /u/p her /u/mbrella before
she went /u/nder the rain.
5. Next, as a class, go over cue words to see if they are hearing the phoneme.
Say: I am going to read some words. If you hear our yucky /u/ sound anywhere in
any of these words I want you to squish that yucky slime like we practiced. Show
the students ugly [written out on
card] and model how to decide if it has the /u/ sound or not.
Uuu-gly. The /u/ sound I hear tells
me to squish that yucky U.
Ready? Do you hear /u/ in up or down?
In pretty or ugly? In bored or fun? In sun or cloud? In munch or eat?
6. Next, take the Elkonin letterboxes out and place them at the front of the
room, so that everyone can see it, for teacher to use during this part of the
lesson. Give each student a letterbox and letter tiles. Tell the students to
turn the letterbox tiles on the lower case side. "We are going to practice
spelling words with the u sound. Look
at the board and see how there are four spaces for five mouth moves. Right now,
I am going to spell the word hump. The first box is for the first sound
in hump, the /h/. The second box is for the second sound, the /u/.
Remember how the /u/ sound makes the sound we say when we see a bug (Uh, yucky U).
The third box is for the third sound in hump the /m/.The fourth sound is
the /p/. Now, you can practice with the following words: (3)-dug, bug (4)-shrug,
dunk, slug, hunt, lunch, bust (5)-crunch, plump (Call the words out and walk
around making notes on the progress of each child, be sure to go over each word
so that student see and hear the correct pronunciation and spelling. Make sure
and tell the students when you make the change to words with more phonemes) Say
the word, count the sounds, make the number of boxes on the board, and have the
students tell you the sound they hear.
7. Get out the typed list of all the words just spelled in the letterbox lesson
and put them on the document camera. Start with the model word and show the
student how to read the words. Read all the words from the letterbox lesson.
8. Read Hunches in Bunches by Dr.
Seuss. Say: We are going to read the book
Hunches in Bunches by Dr. Seuss As we listen to the story if you hear a
word that has out yucky /u/ sound I want you to squish that yucky slime.
This book will be good for students because it will make them really listen and
think about words that have the /u/ sound. The book is lengthy so I will only
pick a few pages on which to listen for the sound on so that students do not get
frustrated. After reading talk about a few of the words that you hear the /u/
sound in and write them out on the board.
9. For assessment, students will come to the teacher's station in groups of 3-4
students. In this group students will read the printable and decodable book
The Ugly Umbrella (teacher will have
one copy per 2 students, can be printed from website listed in references.) The
teacher should have the students read at least one page aloud noting miscues in
order to keep a running record of students' progress. Once she has heard each
student read aloud alone, the teacher may have the students buddy read the rest
of the book listening as the groups read and continuing to note miscues. As the
teacher works with small groups other students may be further assessed using a
worksheet of short /u/ words.
References:
Dr. Seuss. Hunches in Bunches. Random
House. 1982.
Lightsey, Julia; Uh, Squish That Yucky U Bug!
http://www.auburn.edu/academic/education/reading_genie/invitations/lightseybr.htm
The Ugly Umbrella.http://www.readinga-z.com/book.php?id=441.
Online, printable, decodable books.
Worksheet.
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/themes/letters/shortu.shtml.
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