Materials: Primary paper, pencil, chart with "Alex loves apples, cats, and hats", picture page with apple, cat, sun, bag, nut, hat cup, and ant; The Cat and the Hat by Dr. Seuss.
Procedures: 1. Introduce the lesson by explaining that
words are made up of mouth moves that produce sounds. Today class
we are going to learn the mouth move a=/a/.]
2. Ask students: Have you ever heard a baby cry? A baby
says aaah when he cries. Now, everyone cry like a baby in a quiet
voice. How does your mouth feel? It is open or closed?
3. Let's try a tongue twister on the chart to help us remember
what a=/a/ sounds like.
"Alex
loves apples, cats, and hats." Say it one time with me. Now
say it three times by yourselves. Now let’s say it again together
by saying the a=/a/ sound extra loud. Ready: "Aaaaalex
loves
aaaaaples, caaaaats, aaaaand haaaaats." Great job!!
4. [Have students take out their primary paper and pencil.] We
can use the letter a to spell the /a/ sound. Let's write
it.
Start a little below the fence. Go up and touch the fence and
then
go down to the sidewalk. Now go back to where you started and go
straight down the sidewalk. After I have checked everyone's a,
please
go back and make five more just like it.
5. [Call on students to tell which word has the a=/a/ sound.]
Do you hear /a/ in bag or tug? Sun or cat? Hat or
nut?
Now, I want everyone to cry like a baby every time you hear a=/a/ in a
word and remain quiet when a word does not have the a=/a/ sound.
Do you hear a=/a/ in apple? Tug? Mat? Sit?
Ant?
Book? Bag? Hat?
6. [Read Cat and the Hat twice. The third time have
children
raise their hands when they hear a word with /a/ in it.
7. For assessment, distribute a picture page and help students name
each picture. Ask each student to circle the pictures whose name
have a=/a/ in it.
Reference: Eldredge, J. Loyd, Teaching Decoding in Holistic Classrooms. Prentice Hall, Inc. 1995, p. 54-68.
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