Brown
Cow
Rationale:
Children need to first have an
understanding for individual letters to understand phoneme
correspondences.
When children can connect each letter with at least one phoneme then
they are
ready to move on to digraphs. The goal of this lesson is to help
students
understand the correlation between graphemes and phonemes. This lesson
focuses
on the grapheme ow=/ou/. This is a digraph because two letters come
together
to make one sound. This lesson will help students recognize and know
when they
see the letters o and w together it makes the /ou/ sound.
Materials:
·
primary
paper and pencil
·
whiteboard
and marker
·
letter
tiles: c, o, w, b, r, n, p, l, w, m,
·
letter
boxes
·
word
page with: cow, brown, plow, brow, mow
·
white
copy paper and markers
·
Book: Moo
Moo, Brown Cow by Jakki Wood 1996. Publisher: Red Wagons Books.
Procedures:
1. To
introduce the lesson
I would start off saying: We have been practicing each letter has its
unique sound, today we are going to be learning how to put letters
together to
make new sounds.� Today we are going to focus on the letters ow and how
it
makes the /ou/ sound.
2. Lets say together
brown cow. B-r-ow-n C-ow. Good. Did you hear the /ou/ sound? I did too!
We are
going to look at some more words that have the letters ow in them and
see if
they make the /ou/ sound, but first we are going to say our tongue
twister.
3. Tongue Twister:
Farmer Brown feed the cow,
plowed the garden, and sowed some grass. Lets say it together now.
What words
did you hear the /ou/ sound? There are three words you should of heard
the /ou/
sound in. They are cow, plowed, and sowed. Lets say these words again:
cow,
plow, and sowed. Good job!
4. Now we are going to
look for the /ou/ sound in some more words that have the ow letters.
Take out
the word page and I will model how to say the words first then I want
him to
practice saying them. I will take out the letter tiles and letter boxes
and
models how each of these words are spelled: cow, brown, plow,
brow, mow. This will show him that ow=/ou/. After I spell and read each
word I
want them to read and spell each word. For example, I will say cow. I
want him
to spell cow in the letter boxes and then say the word. If the word
needs
adjustments I will talk him through it and show him how to correct his
mistake.
5.
We are now going to read Moo Moo, Brown
Cow by Jakki Wood. In this book we are going to learn about baby
animals
and their mothers from the eyes on a brown cow. To see what kind of
animals we
will see we are going to have to read and find out.
6.
After reading we are going to write a message about the book.
7. I will assess them by
allowing them to write
cow on top of a piece of white copy paper. Then we are going to write
ow=/ou/.
This way he want forget that the letter ow make the /ou/ sound. Then he
will be
able to draw a picture of a cow.
References:
Fishing
for Some Shopping. Caroline Trefethen