Lick
Your Icky Sticky Fingers
Rationale: In this lesson, children
will learn to recognize the short vowel i = /i/ in both spoken
and
written words. They will practice
reading and spelling words containing i = /i/.
They will do this through a letterbox
activity focusing on i=/i/.
Materials: Elkonin
Letter Boxes;
letters: b,c,d,d,h,i,k,l,l,n,p,r,s,t,t,w;flash
cards with the words (is, ill, his, did, brick, slid, crib, twist,
print,
sprint) one set for every two students; primary paper and pencils; Liz is Six.
Procedures: 1. Introduce the lesson by
writing the
letter i on the board. Say:
Today we are going to practice spelling
and reading word that have the /i/ sound in them. The
/i/ sound is represented with the letter i.
2.
Ask students: Have you ever made cupcakes and gotten all of that yummy
icing on
your fingers? The best way to get the icing off is to lick your icky
sticky
fingers. *Teacher wiggles her fingers and pretends to lick her icky
sticky
fingers.
3.
Let's try a tongue twister [on board]. "The important Indian was ill
with
injuries inside the igloo." Everybody say it three times together. Now
say
it one more time, and this time, stretch the /i/ at the beginning of
the words
that have the sound /i/ in them. "The iiiiiimportant IIIIIndian was
iiiiill wiiith iiinjuries iiinside the iiigloo." Now we will try it
again
separating the sound from the word: "The /i/ mportant /i/ ndian was /i/
ll
with /i/ njuries /i/ nside the /i/ gloo.
4. Now have the
children pick which word
contains the /i/ sound in it. (sit or stand, fat or thin, bite or bit)
5.
Now students will take out their letters and letterboxes. Say: now we
are going
to practice spelling words that contain our /i/ sound in them. You put only one sound in a box, but
sometimes you can put more than one letter in a box because sometimes
it takes
two letters to make one sound. For example
the word sick would be put in
the boxes like this: [s][i][ck] (show them with the
letters). The letters ck
are put in one box because they make the same sound together. I
will
say the word I want you to spell and then you try to spell it in your
boxes.
2-
is, ill
3-
his, did
4-
brick, slid, crib
5-
twist, print
6-
sprint
6.
Once students have spelled all of the words pair them up and give each
pair a
set of flashcards. Have them practice
reading those cards to each other while you assess them to see how each
pair
does.
7.
Then show them to cover of Liz is Six. Say:
Liz gets a mitt for her birthday. She really wants to play baseball with pig;
do you think she will get to? Will she have fun? Have
the students read this book and really
pay attention to the /i/ sounds in the words of the story.
References: Murray, Bruce and Lesniak
T. (1999). The Letterbox Lesson: A hands-on Approach to teaching
decoding. The
Pridmore, Angela.
(2004) Icky
Fingers: Beginning
http://www.auburn.edu/academic/education/reading_genie/begin/pridmorebr.html
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