“E” is
for Elephant
Beginning Reading Level
Rationale: Phonemic awareness is essential in beginning reading, and helps with reading and spelling. The goal for beginning readers is reading words after mastering the phonemes. This lesson teaches the /e/=e correspondence.
Materials:
Red Gets Fed,
Paper
Pencils
Markers
Cards with words and pictures- elephant, egg, ear, exit, dog, cat, apple
Letters- r,e,d,g,g,f,l,l,a,t,s,b
Letterboxes
Words for lesson on cards: red, fell, egg, eat, Ed, rest, best.
Procedures:
1.) "Today we are going to have some fun. We are going on a treasure hunt looking with our eyes and our ears for the /e/ sound. Sometimes it is hard to hear so let's listen hard."
2.) "Have you ever heard a door open in an old house? The sound that door made is a lot like the sound the /e/ makes. It goes "eeeehhh." Can you make that sound? Great, then you have mastered the /e/ sound so let's get ready for our treasure hunt.
3.)
"We
are going to practice the /e/ sound one more time before we are ready
to go on
our hunt. We are going to say a tongue twister. It is "Erin the
elephant like
eggs in
4.) "Now I am going to show you some pictures and I want you to say the word they represent. If you hear the /e/ sound in that word I want you to wiggle your fingers in the air, and say the word again stretching out the /e/ sound. After I show you all the cards, we will write the words that have the /e/ sound on writing paper so that you can practice later."
5.) Next, explain the letterbox lesson. "I will tell you a word, and I want you to use the letters in front of you to spell the word in your boxes. The trick is there is only one SOUND per box." It would help to do an example on an overhead. The words are red, egg, fell, eat, Ed, rest, best.
6.) Next, we will read Red Gets Fed. I will have the student read it aloud, and I will scaffold as needed. If there is enough time and the students are still engaged, I will reward them by letting them draw a picture of anything that starts with the /e/ sound.
7.) Assessment: To assess their knowledge of the /e/ correspondence, I will take a running record while he reads Red Gets Fed. I will also pay close attention to how well he does listening for the /e/ sound, recognizes the letter "e" in text and writes "e" on paper.
References
Murray,
B.A. and T. Lesniak (1999). The Letterbox Lesson: A
hands on approach to teaching decoding. The
The
Reading Genie Website, http://www.auburn.edu/rdggenie/begin/boggsbr.html.