EEK! Run
from that BEE!
Beginning to Read
By: Ali Long
Rationale: When learning
how to read it is very important that students have phonemic awareness.
This is when they can match the phoneme (sound) to its grapheme (letter).
In this lesson we will use a letter box lesson to teach the spelling and
reading of words with the correspondence ee= /E/.
Spelling the words first in the LBL will
help students to read and remember the words better.
Materials:
Lee and the Team- a copy
for each student.
Elkonian boxes for each
student
Letter tiles (l,e,e,b,f,t,p,r,u,n,m,a,k,s)
Review flashcards (pet,bed,crept)
Flash cards with words 2-
(lee, bee, eel) 3- (feet, pet, tree, run, weed) 5- (street)
Document camera, smart
board, or overhead to demonstrate how to spell using the elkonian boxes, and
letter tiles for teacher demonstration.
Chart paper with tongue
tickler: A bee on his knee made him weep
and say eek!
White board
Dry erase marker
Procedures:
1.
Start by reviewing the correspondence e=/e/.
You can introduce this by saying, "does anyone know what sound
e makes in the word pet?"
Yes that's right! The
e in pet says/e/.
Can you hear /e/ in bed? What about crept?
That's right! We can hear /e/ in all of those words.
2. Today we are going to
learn a different e sound!
e can also say /E/.
This sound is often made when two
e's are put together.
Write the word eek on the board and underline the two
e's.
For example, when I'm surprised sometimes I scream EEK! Did you hear the
/E/ when I shout EEK? Good!
3. I want you all to read
this tongue tickler aloud. "A bee on his
knee made him weep and say eek!" Now, I want you to draw out the /E/ and hold
both hands up to your cheeks when you hear the /E/ sound as if someone surprised
you! "A b-eee-eee on his kn-eee-eee
made him w-eee-eee-p and say ee-eee-k!"
Very good.
4.
Make sure the students can find the
ee = /E/ in some of the words in the
tongue tickler. Raise your hand if
you hear /E/ in knee?
Raise your hand if you hear the /E/ in
shoot.
Raise your hand if you hear /E/ in
weep. Raise your hand if you
hear the /E/ in hen.
5. Put out three boxes
under the document camera to model how to spell feet.
Line up the letters needed for the letter box lesson above the boxes.
Tell the students that they will need one box per SOUND. Explain that the
number of boxes won't always be the same as the number of letters. "We will be
working today on spelling words with the /E/ sound.
Remember that the /E/ has two e's.
They are friends so they won't be separated.
They will stay together because they
make one sound. I will show you how
to spell feet.
Then model how to sound out the phonemes and put them in the boxes.
Start by saying "/f/ is the first move that my mouth makes. /f/ that is
the sound that f makes, so I'm going
to put that in the first box. Next
is /E/, ee makes the /E/ sound, and
it is just one mouth move, so I'm going to put both
e's in the second box.
/t/ tttt is the last mouth move that I make.
So I will put the t in the
last box.
"Now it's your turn!"
Make sure you have all of your letters out in front of your boxes.
First you will need 2 boxes.
Spell bee,
lee,
eel.
Now you will need 3 boxes.
Spell, feet,
pet,
tree,
run,
weed. Now make 5 boxes. Spell
street.
While the students are
spelling the words walk around and make sure they understand.
Help students who are off task or struggling.
After they have spelled all the words use each word in a sentence.
6.
After students have spelled the words, ask them to read the words as you
hold them up on flashcards.
7.
Now have students' pair up and buddy read the decodable book
Lee and the Team.
Before they read give a short book talk:
Lee is the leader of his baseball team.
His team is being very lazy and won't get up to go to their game.
Lee is afraid that they are going to be late!
We will have to keep reading to find out if Lee and his team make it to
the game on time! Walk around a monitor the students reading.
8. Walk around and assess
students with a checklist during the letterbox lesson and the buddy reading.
References:
Davis, Courtney. Wee with
EE!
http://www.auburn.edu/academic/education/reading_genie/solutions/davisbr.htm
Murray, Bruce. The Reading
Genie.
http://www.auburn.edu/academic/education/reading_genie/letbox.html