Mr. Doc
Beginner Reader
Rationale:
Learning
the sounds of vowels is a very important aspect in learning to read.
With out
vowels the words will fall apart. This lesson will introduce to
thr student o=/o/.
Materials:
Letterbox and the
letters c,o,p,b,b,s,n,o,t
The
book Doc
in the Fog By: S.
Cushman
Worksheet
with words: frog, nod, hop, hat, cap,
hen, send
Procedure:
1. Tell the class we are going to talk about the letter o
today.
Then, ask if anyone can tell you the sound the doctor asks you to
make
when he looks down your throat? Then discuss the sound with the
class and
have everyone make the sound out loud. Tell the class that is
what sound
the letter /o/ makes when it is by itself.
2. Tell the students to listen to the tongue twister I am
about to
say carefully because you will have to repeat it. Octopus Oliver
over ate.
Tell the class to open their mouths really wide, like they do at
the
doctor, when they hear the /o/ sound. Have them repeat the tongue
twister while
doing that.
3. In small groups pass out the letterboxes. Tell the
students
that each box represents a sound in a word. For instance, if
there are
three different sounds, like in the word log, you will have three
boxes.
Then show the students how to do the letterbox lesson using the
word log,
by placing L in one box, and o in one box, and g in one box. Have the
students
fold the letterbox to only show three boxes. Tell the students to
sound
out the word bob and place each different sound they hear in a separate
box.
Keep repeating this activity using the words: bob,
cop, stop, and snob. Make sure you tell the students to change
the number of squares to four when you start on the four phoneme words.
4. Write the words used in the letter box lesson, one at a
time, on
a board. Ask the children to raise their hand if they can read
the word
on the board.
5. Ask the students if they have read the book Doc in the
Fog.
Do quick book talk: Doc is magic. He
can do magical things but today Doc is going to get into trouble. You will have to read to find out what
happens. Give each student a book and tell them to read out loud
in a
very, very, soft whisper. Walk around and scaffold the children
if they
need it.
Assessment:
Pass out a
worksheet to the children. On the work sheet will be words with
the
correspondence o=/o/ in them and also words that do not. The
teacher will
say a word and the student will have to circle the word she said. Use
this to
assess the children.
Refference:
Cushman S. Doc in the Fog.
Educational Insight.
Murray, B. A and T.
Lesniak.
(1999). The letterbox Lesson: A Hands on approach to teaching decoding.
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