Smile and Say
EEEEE!!!!!!
Emergent Literacy
Rationale: To
become a successful
reader a child must be able to recognize phonemes in spoken words as
well as
their corresponding graphemes in written words. Children need to
know
their long vowels and /E/ is one importance because of its frequency in
the
English language. This lesson will help children to master the
/E/ sound
through gestures, tongue twisters, writing practice, and independent
work.
Materials:
Primary
paper and pencil
Poster
with “Eagles eat electric
eels easily.”
Poster
with lower case e written
on it (lines drawn like primary paper)
Marker
for poster
Dry
erase board/chalkboard and
marker/chalk
Yellow
circles cut from
construction paper
Crayons
Worksheet
with pictures of objects
that contain /E/ (green, bee, eel etc.) and objects that do not
(crab,
brick, elephant, etc.)
Procedures:
2)
Ask the students: Have
you ever had your picture taken? What are the two things that the
photographer tells
you to do? He tells you to smile and say CHEEEEEEESE!!!! Well that is
our mouth
movement for the day. Let’s pretend that we having our picture taken.
We need
to smile really big and say cheeeeeeese!!!! Lets all do it together!
3)
Let’s try a tongue
twister (on poster): “Eagles eat electric eels easily.” “Now let’s see
if we
can say it together 3 times. Good job everyone! Now say it again,
but this
time lets stretch out the /E/.” EEEEEagles eeeeeeeeat
eeeeeeelectric
eeeeeeeels eeeeeeeeaslily. “Lets do it together one more time, but as
we say it
lets break off the /E/.” /E/ agles /E/ at /E/ lectric /E/ els /E/
asily.
4)
(Have students take
out primary paper and pencil) The sound /E/ is represented by two lower
case
e’s. “Let’s practice writing one lower case e.To do this we get in the
center
of the space right below the fence, go toward the door (right), up to
touch the
fence, then around and up. I would like to see everyone’s e. After I
put a
check mark on your paper, I want you to write nine more e’s.” “Now
let’s put
two lower case e’s together to represent our /E/ sound. After I put a
check
mark on your paper, I want you to write nine ee’s.
5)
Let me show you how to
find the /e/ in the word leaf. I’m going to stretch out the word leaf
in
super slow motion and listen to hear the doctor sound. lll.
llleeeaaa.
There it is! I do hear our smile and say cheese noise in leaf.
6)
) Call on
students to answer and ask them how they knew. Do you hear the
/e/ sound
in green or purple? tea or
juice ? bee or
grasshopper ? flower or
tree? Ask children to raise their hands if they
can think of a work with the /E/ sound in it. Write their
responses on
the board.
7)
Next pass out yellow
circles made from construction paper and crayons. Instruct the students
to draw
a “smile and say cheese face” on their circle. When the students have
completed
this task, give them instructions. Tell them that you are going to read
a book
full of words that have our “smile and say cheese” sound in them and to
help
show that we hear our sound; we are going to hold up our faces that we
just
made.
8)
Introduce the book Lee
and the Team. Give a brief booktalk to get the student’s engaged.
Lee is
the leader of his baseball team. One day the team is late for a big
game. Lee
needs to get his team to the game. Will he be able to get them there on
time?
9)
Read Lee and the
Team to the students. After you finish reading, ask the students to
give
examples of words form the book that had the /E/ sound in them.
10)
Pass out the worksheet that
has pictures of things that with the /E/ sound and others that do not
contain
the /e/ sound. Instruct students to circlepictures that contain
the /E/ sound and make an X through
the pictures that do not. If time permits, children may color in
the
pictures.
References:
Heather
Lynch. Reading Genie Website. Stick Out Your Tongue….and say ah!
http://www.auburn.edu/academic/education/reading_genie/persp/lynchel.html