Ssshhh, Look at the Fish
Beginning
Rationale:
The
students will learn that sh stands for
/sh/ in spoken language. This digraph cannot be decoded by
blending the
/s/ and /h/ sounds, so /sh/ should be explicitly taught. This
lesson will
give the students practice recognizing /sh/ in speech and sh in
print. The students will learn to recognize /sh/ in spoken
language by
listening to a tongue twister and signaling when they hear /sh/.
They
will also practice writing sh.
Materials:
picture
page(ship, shore, shirt, fish, dish), primary paper, pencils, and One
Fish, Two
Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish
Procedures:
1. Explain
that sh is a letter team that makes a
different sound than blending /s/ and /h/. (Write shop on
the
board). This doesn䴜t say s-hip. We will need
to learn what
sound
the letter team sh makes before we can read this word
correctly.
2. Have you
ever been talking in class and the teacher
tells you to be quiet? There is a sound that your teacher makes to tell
someone
to be quiet. Can anyone think of what that sound is?
Right.
/sh/. Everyone make that sound with me.
3. We are
going to play a game. I䴜m going to tell you
some things that we do and you tell me if it is a time to be quiet by
saying
/sh/. Here is an example. If I said go to the library would you
say /sh/?‰¥ÿ
At the
football game
Going to sleep
At the fair
Around a sleeping puppy
In a hospital
At P.E.
4. (Students
take out primary paper and pencils.)
Does everyone remember how to write the letter s? How
about the
letter h? Everyone write the letter s, then write
the
letter h right beside the s. (Check to make sure
everyone
has done it correctly). Write sh all the way across the
first line
and put your pencil down when you are done. Now you know how to
write the
/sh/ sound. What are some new words we can write using the /sh/
sound? Write a few suggestions on the board, get the students to
help
spell the word, and then have the students write that word on their
papers.
5. To find
/sh/ in words, say the words very slowly and
listen for /sh/. Let䴜s try this one.
Fish.
F-f-i-sh-sh.
F-i-sh-sh. There it is at the end. Does everyone hear /sh/?
6. I am going
to say a sentence and everyone put your
finger up to your lips when you hear the /sh/ sound.
7.We are
going to read a book about some fish. Does
anyone have an idea what the fish will be doing in the book? We
will have
to read One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish and find out.
Students we will read the book together as a class with me. We
will then
discuss the book and see if the children can tell me what are some
words that
have /sh/ in them.
Assessment:
Pass out the
picture page and have the students match the
words and pictures by drawing lines to connect them. The children will
then take turns and tell me what word they matched with what
picture. The picture . I will tell them to stretch out
the /sh/ sound.
References
Jane Morton. Explicit Phonics
Lesson for sh
http://alex.state.al.us/lesson_view.php?id=5602.
One
Fish, Two
Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish by Dr.
Seuss, Beginner Books, 1960.
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