Shhhh…
Something is
Fishy!
Materials:
Chart paper with the tongue twister: "She sets sheep and fish on the
shelf"
on it
Class set of the book by Dr. Seuss, One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish,
Blue Fish
Class set of Elkonin boxes, with the letters (a,b,c,e,f,h,i,l,p,r,s,u)
Overhead
Primary paper and pencils for
each
student
Work sheet with pictures on one side
and on the
other side a blank for them to write the word that would match the
picture. Words can include ship, sheep, shed, shelf, rash, mush,
hush,
push, and flush.
Procedure:
1. Ask students, “When your someone wants you to be quiet what do they
tell you
to say? "Shhh!" Ask them to put their hand in front of their mouth as
they repeat the sound. Ask them what they feel. "Air." Tell
them: That’s right! The /sh/ sound is made by putting your teeth
together
and pushing the air out of your mouth. Ask if they know what letters go
together to make the /sh/ sound? "An S and an H." Tell them that when
you see these letters together in a word, they make that special
sound.
This sound is called a digraph.
2. Tell students: I am going to say a
sentence,
listen hard for words that have /sh/ in them. She sets sheep and fish
on the
shelf. Now let's repeat that sentence a few times together. Raise
your
hand if you hear the /sh/ sound in that sentence? Good, now lets say
it, but
make the /sh/ sound longer each time we hear it in the sentence.
“Shhhhhhe sets
ssshhhhhhhhhhheep and fisssssshhhhhhhh on the ssssshhhhhelf”. How many times do you hear the /sh/ sound in
that tongue twister? “4.”
3. Now that we know that /sh/ is made
from the
letters S and H, can anyone think of any words that were not in our
sentence
that have that sound in them? Get out your paper and pencil and write
as many
words that you can think of. (You can have several of the students
share their
words and discuss them with the class.)
4. After a quick discussion, you can begin
the
letterbox lesson. Have everyone get out their Elkonin boxes and letters
for the
lesson. Tell them, “I would like everyone to start by spelling she
with their letters, like this [model] “This is how I would spell the
word push.
I would start with our sound /sh/ Then I would try to fit in the first
two
sound. /p/. Oh, P! Then /u/. Oh, U! (Each word should be said out loud
and have
the students spell the words in their own boxes just like the model. 2
phoneme:
she, 3 phoneme: ship, rash, shell, fish, cash, 4
phoneme: flesh, brush, flush
5. After the kids have spelled all the
words, use
your own letters to spell the words on the overhead and have them read
them as
a class after modeling once. Put the word ship on the board and show
them, this
says ssssssshhhhhhhhip. Tell them to make sure they stretch out
/sh/.
6. Begin reading: “We are now going to
read One
Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish by Dr. Seuss,” and ask if any
of the
students have ever read this book? Give the students a short book talk
and then
pass out the class set. “Have you ever heard of Dr. Seuss. Well he
writes lots
and lots of wonderful book. This book I have here is about some fish.
This book
is about fish of all different colors. Have you ever seen red and blue
fish?
Well lets read this book and find out what happens to these silly
looking fish”.
Send the children into their reading groups and take turns reading
pages. This
is a good review, because the children will practice reading /sh/ in a
hands-on
fashion. Tell students to read the page
once and then go back and read it and stretch out the /sh/ sound
whenever they
hear it. This should be fun for them!
Assessment:
Give the students the worksheets and explain directions. Each
worksheet
will have a picture of objects and students are supposed to match the
name of
the object with the picture. The names of the pictures will be in one
column
and the pictures in the other. This activity can be modified by having
the
teacher show the pictures and give two word choices on what it could
be. As a class
or as a single student they should pick the correct word and talk about
what
sounds they hear in the word, making sure they note specifically where
the /sh/
is. They are to identify the pictures by writing the name of the
picture across
from it or matching the picture to the words.
References:
Seuss, Dr. (1960). One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish.
Random
House, Inc:
http://www.auburn.edu/academic/education/reading_genie/persp/hicksbr.html