Beginning
Rationale: When
learning to
read, it is important that beginning readers understand that each
letter has a
vocal gesture or phoneme. Hearing those sounds in spoken words
can be
difficult but must be learned as well. This lesson helps
introduce the
short vowel sound of e=/e/. Learning short vowels will help identify
phonemes
within words that may be hard to detect. We will practice making this
sound as
well as listening for it and writing it.
Materials:
Pencil,
primary paper, dry erase board and markers, tongue twister “ Every egg
lets
Edgar get excited to be fed out of bed”, picture of person making
the
“eh” hand gesture, Elkonin boxes for each student and teacher,
the letters
, e, r, d, n, b, p, c, k ,s ,t, w, a, and g, list of words to be used
in letter
box lesson that includes (2) egg (3)red, peck, (4) west, (5)bend,
copies of the
book Red Gets Fed by Shelia Cushman, Pat Millie and Patti
Briles.
Educational Insights:
Procedure:
1)
Today we are going to learn more about the letter e and one of
the
sounds this letter can make. Sometime e makes the sound /e/. It
reminds
me of the sounds my grandmother makes when she can’t hear. She cups her
hand
around her ear and says “eh?” Let’s try making that sound together.
Pantomime
gesture and show the picture of grandma. Suggest that the group tries
the
gesture and sound together as well.
2)
One primary paper we will practice making our own lower case e.
I
will model on a dry erase board with primary lines. "To make a
little /e/, we will start at the center of the space below the fence,
go toward
the door (right), up to touch the fence, then around and up like you
are making
a little c." Students will then practice on their own primary
paper.
3)
Now we are going to listen for that sound grandma makes in a
silly
sentence called a tongue twister. Every time you hear that /e/ sounds I
want
you to cup your hand around your ear like she does. Slowly I will
read
“Every egg lets Edgar get excited to be fed out of bed.”
4)
Now we’re going to try that again with our hand gesture but this
time let’s hold out our short e
sound. Like when I say egg we’ll say
eeeeegg. Let’s try that together.
5)
Now we’re going to play a game where we try to guess which word
has
that /e/ sound in it. I’m going to give you two and then raise your
hand and
tell me which one has our special sound. Ready? Do you hear /e/ in red
or raid? Beg or big? Egg or bog?
Ted
or toad? Let or lit?
6)
I will give each student a set of letterboxes and lower case
letters for a letterbox lesson. Each student will have only the letters
needed
for the words we will use. “Now we are going to use our letterboxes to
spell
some words. Remember that each box stands for one sound that you hear.
Watch me
as I spell out the word leg. I hear /l/ so I know there is a l
in the
first box, then I hear that /e/ sound like grandpa makes so I know e
goes next,
and last I hear /t/ so I know t goes at the end. “I will call out each
word and
then after everyone completes the word, I will have one student come
show the
whole class how he/she did it. After we go through every word, I will
spell the
words out myself without the letterboxes and have the students read the
word
back to me. Pet, wet, fret, west, spend, strength.
7)
Next we will pass out the book Red Gets Fed by Shelia
Cushman, Pat Millie and Patti Briles. Educational Insights, 1990.
Before
reading, I will give a book talk. "In this book there is a dog named
Red.
Red is always so very hungry and loves to be fed. He gets so hungry
that he
wakes up his owner in the middle of the night! I wonder what will
happen to Red
and if he’ll ever get fed. To find out we’ll have to read the story."
Assessment: In
order to
asses each child we will have a worksheet to be done in class. The
sheet will
reinforce the short e sound that was covered in the lesson while
providing
feedback on what was learned by each student. In this worksheet,
students
will identify pictures of words with the /e/ sound. They will
draw a line
from the picture to the box where all the short e sounds go into.
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References:
Barton, Kimberly. "Ehh? Says Grandpa Edwards." http://www.auburn.edu/academic/education/reading_genie/odysseys/bartonbr.html
http://www.auburn.edu/academic/education/reading_genie/voyages/brockbr.html
Cushman, S. Red
Gets Fed
(1990).