Beginning to Read
Knap Sack Snap
Beginning to Read
Rationale:
In
order to develop a child's phonemic awareness, children must have an
understanding of short vowel sounds. They must understand that letters
represent a specific sound, thus building phonemic awareness. For
students to be successful fluent readers, they must accomplish decoding
skills for unfamiliar words. In this lesson, students will learn the
short a sound a = /a/. By using tongue twisters, buddy reading, and
print concepts students will learn to read and write short vowel /a/
words.
Materials:
Primary
paper
Pencil
Crayons
Elkonin
boxes for students (up to 6 boxes)
Plastic
letters for each student ( a, b, c, d, f, h, k, l, m, n, o, p, r, s, t
)
Pseudoword
sheet with gaf, han, tam, lat, wap
A Cat
Nap by Shelia Cushman
Procedures:
1.
Introduce the lesson by explaining that sounds of letters combine to
make words. 'We are going to concentrate on one sound today. Can
you say 'aaaaaa' Like a crying baby? The 'aaaa' sound is the short
/a/. Let's work with the letter that goes with our aaaa sound, that's
right the short vowel /a/.'
2. Let's try listening to some words to see if we can hear the 'aaaa' sound. I want you to twist your fists at your eyes when you hear a word with the 'aaaa' sound. Here we go.....cat, go, ran, sand, jump, top, man, rat, kick, bag, nap. Nice!'
3.
Have each child read A Cat Nap by Shelia Cushman. Have
the students pick out words that contain the short a=/a/. Review list
as class, all words that contain /a/ in A Cat Nap.
4.
'Lets pull out our letters and letter boxes. Can we start by spelling
'map'. We need three boxes. Do we hear the 'aaaa' sound?' Continue the
letterbox lesson by using words at, cab, fad, rag, ham, and hand.
Assessment:
For
each child I will give them a new /a/ word and have them read it.
Some will be actual words and some will be pseudo words. I will do this
individually with each student.
Reference:
Murray,
B.A., and Lesniak, T. (1999) 'The Letterbox Lesson' A
hands-on approach for teaching decoding.' The
http://www.auburn.edu/academic/education/reading_genie/explor/stanleybr.html