Blowing Bubbles with B
By: Ashley Cooke
Emergent Reader
Rationale:
This lesson will
help children practice identify the phoneme /b/, represented by the
letter B.
Students will learn to recognize /b/ in spoken words by learning a
meaningful
representation, (blowing bubbles in your milk) and the letter symbol B,
practice
finding /b/ in words, and apply phoneme awareness with/b/ in phonetic
cue
reading distinguished rhyming words from beginning letters.
Materials:
Primary paper and
pencil, chart with ćBob bakes blueberry bagels bestä; word
cards with
BOB, BELL,BAKE, BOX, and BIKE, assessment worksheet identifying
pictures with
/b/, (URL at the bottom).
Procedures:
1.
Say: The English language is a tricky language to
learn. It is hard to learn how to say these letters and what these
letters
stand for. The mouth moves different ways with each new letter we say.
Today we
are going to work on saying the letter ćbä and moving our mouth as we
say the
letter. We spell /b/ with the letter B. B looks like a bubble and
sounds like
youāre blowing bubbles in your milk.
2. Letās
pretend to blow bubbles in our milk, /b/,
/b/, /b/, (model blowing bubbles in
your milk).
Notice where our lips are when we say /b/? When you say /b/ your lips
press
together.
3. Let me
show you how to find the letter B in the
word box. Iām going to stretch the word box out in slow motion and I
want you
to look for my lips blowing bubbles; bb-oo-x.
Now Iām
going to stretch it out even slower; bbb-ooo-x. There it was! I felt my lips pressing
together in
the beginning of the word box! Now letās try something a little harder.
I want you to listen for the sound /b/ in
the middle of these
words: rabbit·/r//a//b//b//i//t/. Did you
see my lips
press together to blow bubbles? Now look for it in this word:
rabbit·/r//a//b//b//i//t/.
4. Letās
try a tongue twister (on chart). ćBob bakes
blueberry bagels bestä. Letās say it three times together. Now this
time say it
again but this time say the letter B three times at the beginning of
each
word;ä Bbbob bbbakes
bbblueberry bbbagels
bbbest.ä Now say it again and this time
break the /b/ sound
off the word; /b/ ob /b/ akes /b/ lueberry
/b/ agels /b/ est.
5. (Have
students take out the primary paper and a
pencil). We use letter B to spell /b/. Capital b looks like two
bubbles
on top of each other. Letās write the lower case letter b. Start at the
rooftop
and drag your pencil all the way down to the sidewalk. Go back up to
the fence
and make a loop around back down to the sidewalk. I want to see
everyoneās b and after I put a smile on it make 7 more just like them!
6. Call on
students to answer how they knew: Did you
hear /b/ in bake or lake? Box or fox? Ball or fall? Cab or mad?
Letās
see if you can spot the mouth movement /b/. Blow bubbles in your milk
if you
hear it in these words; bob, cake, ball, build, rabbit,
bubble,
light, frog, bake, and book.
7. Say:
ćLetās look at a book called Brown Bear,
Brown Bear, What do you see? This book is written by Eric Carle and
he
tells us about a brown bear that sees a bunch of different animals that
are
different colors that begin with the letter b. Can anyone guess what
colors are
in this book that begins with the letter b?ä Read the title page,
drawing
out /b/. Look at the other pages in the book with /b/ on it, having the
children look at these spellings and looking at what the letter b looks
like.
Have the children see if they can think of other words that begin the
letter b.
Then ask them to pick a character from the book whose name begins with
the
letter b. Have them write out the name and draw their animal.
8. Show
BOX and model how to decide if it is box
or fox: The B tells me to blow bubbles, /b/, so it is bbb-ox, box. Now itās your turn: BAG: bag or
rag? BIKE:
bike or like? BAKE: bake or cake? BELL: bell or fell?
9.
For assessment give each student a worksheet. Students are to complete
the
partial
spellings
and color the pictures that begin with F. Call students
individually to
read
the phonetic cue words from step #8.
Assessment website: http://www.kidzone.ws/kindergarten/b-begins2.htm
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