Tim's Pig
Emergent Literacy
Rationale:
Children need to understand that letters stand for phonemes so that
they are able to learn to read and spell words. This lesson will
help
children learn that i =
/i/.
They will be able to recognize /i/ by finding /i/ in certain words,
understanding what it means and learning a symbol for /i/.
Materials: Primary paper and pencil; chart with tongue twister
"If an
igloo is cold, is it slick?"; drawing paper and crayons; Pig in a Bag (http://www.auburn.edu/academic/education/reading_genie/);
Picture page with the following pictures: pig, tag, bed, twig,
leg, igloo, gift.
Procedures:
1. Introduce the lesson and tell them that we are going to learn what i
= /i/. When you say /i/, as in icky, your nose moves up and down
like
a bunny rabbit's nose when it twitches. Today we will work on
noticing
when our nose moves up and down when we say words that have /i/ in it
2. Ask Students: Did you ever eat a food that tasted
icky? When you
taste something you don't like your nose moves up and down as you say
"icky". Let's all say icky together and notice as your nose moves
up
like a bunny's. [Everyone says icky together.]
3. Let's try a tongue twister. Look at the chart and
let's all read
it together. "If an igloo is cold, is it slick?" Let's all
say it
again, but this time let's say it twice. Now let's say it one
more
time but stretch out the sound /i/ when you hear it. "Iiiif an
iiiigloo iiiis cold, iiiis iiiit sliiiick?" This time as you say
it
break it /i/ off from the word. "/i/f an /i/gloo /i/s cold, /i/s
/i/t
sl/i/ck?"
4. Everyone get out your primary paper. We can use the
letter i to
write /i/. Let's begin. Go down from the fence and then
give him a
feather. I will come around and look at everyone's i. After
I look at
your's write it ten more times on your paper.
5. Let's find the sound /i/ in sticky. Let me show you
how. I'm
going to stretch it out slow and notice when my nose goes up like a
rabbits. S-s-t-t-i-i-i. There, I found it! We do here
/i/ in
sticky.
6. Have students determine whether or not they can hear /i/ in
certain
words. Do you hear /i/ in stick or stack? In lift or
laugh? In big
or bag?
7. Tim is having a party for his tenth birthday. He gets a
present
and inside is a pig! The pig meets a cat and a dog and ends up
running
away. Will the pig ever come back? To find out what happens
you will
need to read the story. We will read the story as a class and
then
discuss it. The students will wiggle their noses whenever they
hear
the sound /i/. Then ask the students what some of the words were
that
they heard with /i/ in them.
8. To assess the students work they will do the picture sheet
with the
words on it. They will be instructed to circle and color the
words
that have the sounds /i/ in them.
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