Skinny
Minnie
Beginning to Read
After
children have learned letter recognition and consonant phonemes they
need to
start learning their vowel phonemes.
The third vowel phoneme they learn is i=/i/.
They'll learn the correspondence by learning reading and
spelling
with letterboxes.
Letterboxes
for each student, letters-i,f,t,b,s,d,r,p,n,k,l,g and the Tin Man
Fix-It; and
their assessment worksheet with word choices
1.)
I
will start
the lesson by reminding the students that every letter comes with its
own mouth
movement. “Today we are going to learn
more about the short i. Does everyone
remember what a lower case i looks like? Now let’s learn about the
short i and
its mouth movement /i/.”
2.)
“Now
everybody think of when you’ve ever touched something gross. Did you think ‘Ick that’s
gross’? Now I’m going to tell you a
little story about Skinny Minnie and every time you hear /i/ you’re
going to
jump your hands back like you just touched something terribly gross.”
3.)
“Let’s
practice. Fish sticks don’t have
fins. Good. You
only raise your hands with fish, sticks,
and fins because that was the only time we heard /i/.”
Now let’s try it for real. Skinny
Minnie licks her red lollipop and
kisses her daddy with her red lips.
4.)
Now
every one
take out your letterboxes. Model: “When I say a word you try to spell it by
forming each phoneme in the word with your mouth to help you. If I said the word fit I would make
each part with my mouth /f/-/i/-/t/.
Now I think to myself ‘what letters make /f/-/i/-/t/?’ The
letters
f-I-t. And there’s my word. Now you
try. Only use your green and blue
boxes. We’ll start small and get
bigger: 2-it, if; 3-sit, fib, did;
4-grid, spin, rink; 5-print, blink.
5.)
The
children
read the book Tin Man Fix-It on their own.
Then ask them to recall any words with short i in it.
6.)
Give
the
students a worksheet where they have to choose the word with short /i/
in
it. Sit or tap? Red
or fish? Tom or Tim? Pick
or
Step? Mad or Pit?
Speak,
Gary. Mickey and His Icky Stickies. http://www.auburn.edu/rdggenie/chall/speakebr.html
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