B B BEE!!
Emergent
Literacy
- Rationale:
A student must
recognize phonemes in
spoken words before they can match letters to phonemes. This
lesson's
focus is on the letter /b/. Students will
understand the meaningful
representation of the /b/ when the lesson is complete.
- Materials:
Primary Paper
The Honey
Bee and the Robber by
Eric Carle
Pencils
Crayons
Class set of
laminated bees
http://www.coloring.ws/bumblebee1.htm
Worksheet for assessment
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/alphabet/circlewordsthatstartwith/b.shtml
- Procedures:
1.
"When we speak, letters stand for the mouth
moves we make as we say words. Today, we are going to focus on
the mouth
move /b/. With practice, you can notice /b/ in lots of words."
2."Have
you ever played basketball and
dribbled the ball against the ground? The sound it makes sounds
sort of
like b-b-b-b." Dribble a pretend ball against the floor for
the students. "Do you hear the b-b-b-b sound?" Say the phoneme
sound
/b/. Ask the students, "How does it feel to say /b/? When
we
say /b/ our lips push together and let out a puff of air. A word
that has
the /b/ sound is the word box.
Stretch the /b/ sound so you can hear the /b/ dribble in box.
B-b-b-b-box."
3.
Now let's try our tongue twister on the
chart. I'm going to say it once for you and then I want you to
say it two
more times with me. Billy bounces basketballs with brown
bear. Repeat
twice with group. Great Job! Now lets say the tongue
twister one
more time and sound out those dribbling b's each time it begins a
word.
Bbbbbilly bbbbounces bbbbasketballs with bbbbrown bbbbear.
Good!
This time let's separate the /b/ from the beginning of each word that
begins
with /b/. /b/ illy /b/ ounces /b/ asketballs with /b/ rown /b/
ear.
4.
"Take out your pencils and primary
paper. Now that we've learned what the letter B sounds like, we
are going
to write the letter on our paper. Demonstrate on the board and talk
the
students through the steps. To write the uppercase B we start at
the
rooftop and draw straight down to the sidewalk, around for his big
chest, and
around for his big tummy. For lowercase b, start at the roof, go down,
b-b-bounce up and around. Once everyone has drawn your Bb, I am going
to come
around and see and put a sticker on your paper. Once I put a
sticker on
your paper, I want you to write Bb across the next few lines 6 more
times."
5.
"Listen for /b/ in the words that I
am going to call out. Tell me which word has the /b/ in it.
When I
say a word that you hear the /b/ sound, everyone needs to hold up their
picture
of the bee. For example, when I say gab and rat, I hear
/b/ in gab,
so hold up the bee when I say gab. Do you hear /b/ in ball
or
call? Fat or bat? cab or cat? Cat or sat? Now I
want you
to clap to show me when you hear /b/ in a word I say or see the mouth
move
/b/. I am going to say each word slowly and pause. If you
heard /b/
in the word, I want you to clap twice, if you don䴜t hear
/b/, I want
you to
leave your hands on your desk. Barry the bumblebee bakes
cakes for the birthday party..
6.
Read The Honeybee and the Robber by
Eric Carle with the class. "Today we are going to read a book about
a
honeybee and the robber. Let's read this book and see if a
honeybee
really gets robbed!" Talk about the story with the students. Read the
story again, and have students hold up their bees when they hear a word
with
/b/. List the words on the board. Have the students write a
message
about what they would feed a beast. Encourage them to draw a
picture and
use invented spellings.
7.
To assess the children's knowledge of /b/,
give them the picture page and ask them to circle the pictures that
begin with
/b/ with their crayon. Tell them to write a b above each
picture
that they circled. You can also refer back to their letter
writing in #4
and their clapping responses in #5. If children are still having
problems
with /b/ and writing the letter Bb, then they can be given extra
instruction.
- References:
The Honeybee and the Robber by Eric Carle.
Philomel Books. (1991).
McGill, Leslie. Sid
the Silly Slow Sloth.
Jackson, Marie.
Bouncing Basketballs B䴜s!