A Dozen Delicious Doughnuts
Emergent Literacy
Lesson Design
Rationale:
It is important that
students are able to recognize and identify the letters of the alphabet. Students should also be able to recognize
individual phonemes and associate them with their corresponding letter.
In this lesson, students will learn all about the letter
d.
Students will learn to recognize letter
d through a fun tongue twister and by seeing and
practicing writing the letter
d. By looking through old magazines,
students will have to identify objects to see if the object says "duh".
Through this, students will recognize the letter
d and what sound it makes.
Students will also learn the correct way to write an uppercase
D and the correct way to write a lowercase d.
Materials:
Primary paper
Pencil
Poster with "Dd" on it
Old magazines
Construction paper
Glue
Scissors
Sentence strip with
tongue twister written out- "Danny sells dozens of
delicious doughnuts at the diner daily."
Dry erase board for
teacher
Dry erase markers
for teacher
Book,
Detective Dog and the Disappearing Doughnuts
Procedures:
1. First, introduce
the letter d.
Hold up the poster with the letter
d on it, ask, "Who can tell me what letter this?" "That's right,
it's the letter d."
You can say, "Today we will learn all about the letter
d, the letter
d says "duh", D= /d/." Now say "duh" with me. "Duh"
"Think about what your mouth does when you say "duh,"
do you feel how your tongue lightly touches the top of your mouth and
then it goes back down?" Watch me (model)
as I say "duh."
Now you try it with me, "Duh."
2. Raise your hand
and tell me, do you hear "duh" in door or
floor? What about in
dish or wish?
Read or write?
3. Now put the
sentence strip with the tongue twister on the board for the class to
see.
Slide your pointer under each word as you read the sentence
aloud to the class. "I'm going to read
aloud a funny sentence. First, just listen
to me read it to you." "Danny
sells dozens of delicious doughnuts at the diner daily."
"Now I will read it again and this time you will repeat the
sentence after me, listen first." "Danny sells dozens of delicious doughnuts at the diner daily."
Class repeats it. "Great!"
"Now let's break it up and stretch out those
d's."
"DDDanny sells ddddozens of ddddelicious
ddddoughnuts at the dddiner dddaily."
"Good job, class!"
4. Next, teach the
class how to write the big D
and little d.
Give each student a piece of primary paper.
Model writing the letter on the dry erase board.
"Watch me write a big D, I start at the roof,
go straight down, pick up, and go around."
"Now use your pencil and paper and practice writing big
D's.
Walk around to observe and help.
"Okay, now stop and look back up at me."
Model writing little d on the board. "To write the little
d, I first write a little
c, then little
d."
"Now you try some." Walk around
again to observe and help.
5. The students will
next use old magazines to cut out pictures of things that start with
the letter d.
Examples may be: dog, doll, dish, desk, dinner. Give each table a couple of old magazines to
look through.
Give each student a piece of construction paper.
Students will look through the magazines and use scissors to cut
out at least 1 picture that start with the letter d.
They will then glue their clippings onto their construction
paper.
6. "We will now read
the book, Detective Dog and the Disappearing Doughnuts."
"In this book, dozens of doughnuts have been disappearing from Dave's
Diner.
Let's read to find out if Detective Dog can figure out where the
doughnuts are going." "I want you to say "duh" if you hear me read a word that you hear "duh"
in.
7. Students will be
assessed on their writing of the letter and also on their magazine
clippings. You will be able to know if the
students understand that
d says "duh" if they are able to cut
out a picture that starts with the letter
d and sounds like "duh."
Also, call the students up individually and ask them to identify
which word says "duh."
For example, "Do you hear "duh" in deer
or rabbit?
Dog or frog?
Resources:
Garfield, Valerie
& Paul Harvey. Detective Dog and the Disappearing
Doughnuts.
Broadway, New York, Scholastic Inc., 2001.
Adams, Whitney.
"Duh! It's D!"
http://www.auburn.edu/academic/education/reading_genie/discov/adamsel.html