Beginning Reading
Shake Out the SH!
Rationale:
For children to develop their reading ability they must be able to recognize and pronounce digraphs. One digraph that will help children develop this ability is the sh=/sh/.
Materials:
Shoe Man By, Steck Vaugn and Kunka, Alice, chart with pictures of /sh/ words and non /sh/ words, and a worksheet
Procedure:
1. Introduce the lesson by asking the children what sound would you
make when telling someone to be quiet. After they have told me the
sound /sh/ I will then ask then what do you think the two letters are that
make that sound.
2. The /sh/ sound is made of two letters the s and the h.
Let's practice the /sh/ sound all together. Now I would like you
to tell me what words you hear the /sh/ sound in: Fish or Kiss; List
or Dish; ect.
3. Now let's try a tongue twister with the sound /sh/:"Shy Shelly
shouted loudly shaking Sharon." Now let's all say it together; again.
Now let's try stretching out the /sh/ sound at the beginning of each word.
"Shshy Shshelly shshouted loudly Shshsaking Shsharon." Great job!
4. Now I want you to look at these pictures on the board and tell
me which ones have the sound /sh/ in them? Now I want you to tell
me if you hear the /sh/ sound in the front of the word or the end of the
word.
5. Now I am going to give you a book that is called Shoe
Man and I want you to get wih a friend. You and your friend need
to look throught the book to
find /sh/ words. Ask the children to then read you
some of the words they have found in the text. Then have them read
the text with a buddy while you walk around and help them with difficult
words.
6. Ask children to stand up behind their desk and tell them that
whenever they hear a word with the sound /sh/ to shake their bodies.
Have a list of words with the sound /sh/ and other sounds so the children
will alternate shaking their bodies.
7. Next give the children a worksheet and have them put the /sh/
in the correct blank so that it will make a word.
Example:
--ape÷(shape)
--di÷(dish)
--y÷(shy)
--ake÷(shake)
--fi÷(fish)
References:
Kunka, Alice. Shoe Man. Steck-Vaughn, Austin, 1991 (Phonics
Reading)
http://www.auburn.edu/rdggenie/insights/amesbr.html
http://www.auburn.edu/rdggenie/insights/langbr/html