GGGreen GGGorillas
Emergent Literacy
Rationale:
This
lesson will help children identify the letter /g/ and the sound that it
makes. Students will learn that the letter /g/ can be found in the
beginning, middle, or end of a word. Students will learn to recognize
the sound it makes through spoken words, symbols, written words, and
poems. During this lesson, students will be assessed through
observation and by completing a worksheet at the end.
Materials:
Picture
of Camel drinking a coca-cola
Overhead
Projector/Chalkboard/Dry Erase Board/Smart Board
Chalk/Dry
Erase Markers
Primary
Paper for each student
Pencil
for each student
Poem:
Bugs on My Rug
Book:
Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss (Random House, 1960)
Enchanted
Learning Assessment Worksheet per student
Crayons
Procedures:
1.
Explain that we are going to learn all about the letter /g/ so that
when we hear or see it we will know everything about it! First we will
look at a picture of a camel drinking a coca-cola. What kind of
sound do you think this camel's throat is making while he is drinking
this coca-cola? Sometimes when I finish exercising or playing a game I
get really thirsty so I drink my water really fast and my throat makes
a guh, guh, gulp sound. Have you ever heard that sound before?
2. Well
the letter /g/ also makes this guh, guh, gulp sound. Let's practice
making this sound together--guh, guh, gulp. Now let's pretend we are
drinking a coke too and make the /g/ sound again. Watch me do it first
and then you try it with me. (Pretend to drink a coke)
3. Next
try the hand sign with this tongue tickler: Repeat it after me.
"The green gorilla saw a great scary ghost!" Now let's try and
to stretch out all of the g's we hear in the tongue tickler. "The
gggreen gggorilla saw a gggreat scary ggghost!"
4. Now
that they are able to recognize /g/ at the beginning of words it is
time to focus on the middle and ends of words. Read this poem and have
the students silently show with their hand symbol when they hear the
/g/ sound.
Bugs on My Rug
by
Karen McGuigan Brothers
Here's
a bug, and there's a bug. They're in my bed, and on my rug. They're
crawling up, and crawling down. I wish these bugs would leave my town.
5. Ask
the students to get out their primary paper and pencils to practice
writing the letter g. First model on the board so everyone can see how
to write the upper case letter g. We need to start by making a /c/
that touches the rooftop goes all the way down to touch the sidewalk
and up to hang on to the fence. Next add a line across the fence to
look like you are resting a tray on the fence. Then model the
lowercase /g/. Start by making a circle that touches the bottom of
the fence and the top of the sidewalk. Then add a hook into the ditch
like this.
6. Next
Dr. Seuss' book, Green Eggs and Ham. Start by giving a book
talk:
This book is about a character that doesn't want to try Sam-I-Am's
green eggs and ham. He keeps on explaining that he will never, ever try
them. To see if he finally tastes them we need to read the book. Also
tell the students to be listening for words that contain the guh, guh
(/g/) we have been talking about. When we finish reading the book make
a list together on the board of all the words we heard containing /g/.
7. To
assess the students and wrap up the lesson provide each student with a
worksheet. Each worksheet should have pictures of objects. Ask them to
color the objects that contain /g/. Model how to do the first one
together and then let them finish the rest on their own. On the
worksheet you could have pictures such as a car, grapes, apple, goat,
gate, and wrench and let them color the ones that have the /g/ sound.
References:
Karen McGuigan Brothers Poem:
http://books.google.com/books?id=E1PUo33NI7QC&pg=PA30&lpg=PA30&dq=bugs+on+my+rug+poem+%2B+karen&source=bl&ots=WYueeONgTH&sig=wXZepSDbdUd2UM78lI1ocm5YvpY&hl=en&ei=XTe5SsG2Npavtgfx2MT3Dg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3#v=onepage&q=&f=false
Picture of Camel:
http://www.solarnavigator.net/solar_cola/cola_images/coca_cola_camel_drinking_from_bottle.jpg
G-G-Gulp! By
Abby Watts (Emergent Literacy Design):
http://www.auburn.edu/academic/education/reading_genie/catalysts/wattsel.html
