Silly Sally Sings Upside Down!!!
Rationale: Children seem to be familiar with the s=/s/ letter sound correspondence, but many children have a hard time recognizing this sound on the end of words, especially plurals. This lesson is intended to make students more familiar with the phoneme /s/; it will help students recognize the s=/s/ sound at the beginning, middle, and the end of words (through a hands on activity as well as a read aloud). The students will also be able to correctly write the letter s.
Materials:
*Primary paper
*Dry Erase Board
*Red and Black dry erase markers
*Poster Board (for tongue twister)
*Masking Tape
*Picture of Silly Sally(walking
upside down) for each student
*Scissors
*Glue
*Work Sheets or Assessment (See 8
for example)
1.
Begin lesson by saying, “Boys and
girls, today we are going to town with Silly Sally in search of words
that make s sound.” Next, ask your students “does
anyone know what sound an s makes?” Have them make
the s=/s/ sound several time. Then tell them “if
you can’t remember always remember Silly Sally and the first letters in
her name tell you the answer.” Then ask, “Where is
your tongue when you make the /s/ sound?” “Can you
feel the air coming out of your mouth?” “Silly
Sally like to make the /s/ sound, because she like to feel the air
coming out of her mouth.” Then on a dry erase board
write SILLY SALLY, and write the S in red and the other letters in
black. By doing this students can associate the
grapheme with the phoneme. Next say, “now I am
going to tell you Silly Sally’s favorite word KISS, lets all
say KISS do you hear the /s/ sound in the word KISS?”
“Watch me say KISS one more time. Are
we all making the same sound, /s/?”
2. Let’s
try something a little harder. Let’s try a Silly
tongue twister.(have tongue twister written on poster board) “Silly
Sally sings silly songs upside down.” Let’s all say
it three times together. Now we are going to say it
again, but this time we are going to stretch out the /s/ sound every
time we hear it. “Sssilly Sssally sssingsss sssilly
sssongsss upssside down. Let’s say it one more time
and this time let’s count on our fingers every time we hear the /s/
sound. “How many did we count?” Eight
that’s right there are eight /s/ sounds.”
3.
“Awesome job!! Now let’s
get out our primary paper and a pencil.” Tell
students, “We can use the letter s to spell the /s/ sound.”
Students are going to learn how to write a capital and a
lowercase s. “First, I am going to write a capital S,
I will a c up in the sky between the rooftop and the fence, then I will
swing back. “Now it’s your turn.” Allow
students to practice writing the uppercase S several times.
“Ok, boys and girls now we are going to write
the lowercase s. For this little s you will form a
tiny c up in the sky, but let the bottom of the c touch the fence then
swing back like this.” Allow students to practice
writing the lowercase s several times. Then model a
word with the s in each of the three positions(beginning, middle, and
end), and have the students copy the words onto their paper.
You can also go back through the words and ask the students to
tell where they hear the /s/ sound in the beginning, middle, or end.
(Example words: sit, sail, Saturday,
mask, vase, miss, bus)
4.
Have medium sized masking tape “S’s”
made for each student on the carpet, with a picture of Silly Sally at
the start of each “S”. Have the “S”
outlined in black with a black dotted line down the middle so that the
“S” looks like a road. Allow the students to sit
beside their “S” and take Silly Sally down the s-shaped road.
This allows the students to feel with their hands the shape of
the grapheme S.
5.
Now have your students look through a
magazine (make sure magazines have an abundance of objects that contain
the /s/ phoneme) and find a picture that has the /s/ phoneme at the
beginning, middle, or the end. Model for the
students first you cut out a spoon—“I cut out a spoon. The
/s/ sound is in the beginning of this word. Now, I
want you to share what you have cut out and the class where the /s/
sound is in your word. Have students share what
they chose to cut out. For example if a student cut
out a snake, it has the /s/ in the beginning. If
someone chose scissors, it has the /s/ in the beginning, middle, and
end.
6.
Now it is time to use a book to emphasize the
/s/ sound in text. Introduce the book Silly
Sally, which contains many words using the phoneme /s/.
Introduce the book by saying, “ We have been talking all day
about Silly Sally, and now we are going to read all about her being
really silly so I want you to turn on your listening ears and listen
for words that make the /s/ sound. Every time you
hear a word with the /s/ sound I want you to make a Silly Face like
Silly Sally.” Okay, listen closely!!!!!
7.
Now we are going to do an activity and
everyone gets to answer a question. “Okay boys and
girls, now I am going to say two words and when I call on you be ready
to tell me which word has the /s/ sound. I’ll do
the first one. Do I hear /s/ in grass or green?
Grass. Okay, now it’s your turn to try some.
Go around the room and allow each child to choose the word with
the /s/ sound. (Examples: summer or winter, past or future, list or row)
8. For assessment give your students some type of cut and paste worksheet with words that you hear s=/s/ in. Have one sheet of pictures and one sheet with 3 columns. One column begging, one middle, and one ending. Next, tell your students what each picture is and have them say back to you what they are. The students will them cut out each picture and glue it in the appropriate column (this depends on the location of the s=/s/ sound in the word).
References:
“Miss”chievous Snakes by:
Aimee Maner
http://www.auburn.edu/academic/education/reading_genie/illum/manerel.html
http://www.auburn.edu/academic/education/reading_genie/letters.html