It’s Sticky
Icky!
Beginning Reading
Rationale:
Students
must
become aware of the correspondences between a grapheme, the written
letter, and
a phoneme, the vocal gesture of that letter. As beginning readers, it
is
important to give the students ways to connect the grapheme to the
phoneme.
Students will learn the correspondence i =
/i/ in this lesson. Students will learn
to recognize /i/ in oral language by learning a fun and memorable
gesture to go
along with the sound, recognize i=/i/ in words, practice spelling the
/i/ sound
with letterboxes, and identify the /i/ sound in written text.
Materials:
-Liz Is Six
-Chart with "Nicky is ill
inside the chilly igloo"
-Elkonin boxes and letters for
teacher (for overhead) (t,r,i,c,k)
-Picture of Sticky Icky lady
-White paper
-Crayons
-List of psedo words: sib,
hist, mip, fid, lin, sill
-Letterboxes and letters (per
student)
-Letters needed: a,b,c,d,e,f,g,i,k,l,p,s,t,x
Procedures:
1.
Introduce the lesson by showing students the picture
of a lady with sticky fingers. Say, "Think of a time when you got
something really icky on your hands, and imagine how it felt. When I
get
something sticky on my hands I do like this (Model motion while saying
"sticky
icky"). Can everyone say "sticky icky" with me while you
shake the goop off your sticky icky hands? Now can you really
stretch out
the /i/ sound like this (model) while we say it again?"
2.
Sometimes the letter "I" makes the sticky icky
sound. Let's see if we can hear the sticky icky letter "I" in this
sentence: Nicky is ill inside the chilly
igloo. Now let’s stretch that sticky icky
sound out when we here it. "Niiiicky
iiiiiis iiiill iiiinside the chiiiiilly iiigloo."
3.
Now I want you to listen very carefully for our sticky
icky /i/ sound. Do you hear /i/ in pick or pack, pig or hog, chick or hen?
4.
[Using teacher Elkonin boxes and letters for overhead]
Now we’re going to try spelling some words with our icky sticky /i/
sound. I am
going to spell the word "trick". I am going to say it really slow to
make sure I hear all of the sounds I need to spell: ttt rrr iii ccckk.
TTT;
that is the "t" sound, so I know to put a "t" in my first
square. Trrrrrick. Next I hear the "rrrrr" sound. That is the sound
an "r" makes, so I know to put an r in the next box. Triiiiiiick.
That was the icky sticky sound! I know that sound! The "I" makes that
sound, so I am going to put it in the next box. TriCK. I know that
sometimes at
the end of words, "ck" makes the "k" sound, so I am going
to put those together to make the "k" sound. Trick!
Now you’re going to try it.
5.Facilitate
as children spell the following words:
[3]Pig,
Sick, Bed, Fix, Tab, Pick
[4] slit, stick
6.
Have students read aloud the words they have
spelled as you reveal them from the list on the overhead, one at a time.
7.
Divide students into reading pairs. (Pass
out books as you talk). "Now that
we are doing such a great job at using our icky sticker letter "I" we
are going to practice our skills by reading a book, Liz is
Six. It’s Liz’s sixth birthday, and one of her presents is a
baseball mitt, which is the same thing as a glove! Will she be able to
use it
to win the baseball game or will something go wrong with her new mitt?
To find
out, we’re going to have to read the book. Take turns reading the book,
one
page at a time, to your reading partner." (Monitor students by
observation)
8.
We are going to do an activity that will help us
remember our sticky icky i. Pass out white paper and crayons. Have an
example
to show students. Have children trace their hands, and draw icky goo
dripping
from the fingers. Students will write "i" on the palm of the hand and
have them write words with the /i/ sound in them. Provide
pictures around the classroom of
words that may or may not have the /i/ sound in them, for students who
may have
trouble discovering words. While students
are working on them have individuals come and read pseudo words with
the
teacher.
Reference:
-Liz Is Six. Educational
Insights Phonics Readers,
1990. Short Vowels, Book 5.
-Sticky
Icky Picture <http://www.auburn.edu/academic/education/reading_genie/phonlet.html>
-Anderson,
Jenni. "Icky Fingers" <http://www.auburn.edu/academic/education/reading_genie/guides/andersonbr.html>
-Cauthen,
Lauren. "Icky Sticky Hands".
<http://www.auburn.edu/academic/education/reading_genie/encounters/cauthenbr.html>