Choo
Choo Charlie
Emergent
Literacy Design
Rationale-
Before a child can read they must first understand
what makes up a word; letters and phonemes, which are correspondences. Digraphs such as ch=/ch/ is hard
for young children to understand. This
lesson is designed to help children recognize digraphs
beginning with
/ch/.
Materials-
poster with tongue twister: Cheer up Charlie; your
teacher is bringing chocolate; cards with pictures of a couch,
chair,
cheese, cherry, and teacher; cards with words:
couch, chair, cheese, cherry, and teacher; the book The
Stinky Cheese
Man coloring pictures of cat, chart, table, chair, chicken, shovel;
crayons, blank paper; primary writing paper.
Flash cards with chase, ship, top, chore, chip cat, catch, push
Procedures-
1.)
Introduce
the lesson by telling the students that we have already learned
that c says /k/ and h says /h/. Now put c and h
together to make /ch/.
Let's all say /ch/.
Excellent!
2.)
Who
knows what sound a train makes? That's
right CHOO CHOO. We're going to
here a tongue twister about a boy named Charlie and when you here /ch/
I want
you to tug on your choochoo train whistle.
3.)
Now
we
need to find out what this looks like so we are going to write it. First we're going to make a c and we
remember c's we start like an a go up touch the fence then
around and
up. Then right beside it we have to
write an h. We remember that too, start
at the rooftop and go straight down to the sidewalk and hump over. Now look!
We have written /ch/.
4.)
Now
let's
try to see if we can recognize some words with /ch/.
(Show the pictures and see if the child can name
them up.) Now who can tell me something
all of these words have in common?
5.)
Go
through
a book talk for The Stinky Cheese Man by Jon Scieszka and
Lane
Smith. Proceed through the story and have the children name the
words
that have the /ch/. Read the story again page by page. (Waits)
6.)
Now
who
can tell me in which word they hear the /ch/?
Chase or ship? Top or chore?
Chip or cat? Catch or push?
7.)
Assessment: Hand out coloring pictures and have the
students color the pictures with /ch/ and write the word beside it and
have
them "x" out the pictures without /ch/.
References:
Scieszka, Jon and Lane Smith The
Stinky
Cheese Man
Waits,
Lindsey. Charlie Chose Cheese.
http://www.auburn.edu/rdggenie/openings/waitsel.html
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