Piggies
Love P-P-Popcorn and P-P-Pancakes
Emergent Literacy Design
Rationale: Marilyn Jager Adams states that a major
predictor of
reading success in the USOE First-Grade Studies was children's ability
to discriminate
between phonemes, which to individual letters.
They can also be described as smaller-than-syllable sounds that
correspond roughly are vocal gestures that are found in spoken
words.
Letters, or graphemes, are used to visually represent phonemes.
In this
lesson, the phoneme /p/ is taught. The students will hear words
that
contain /p/, as well as see words that have p throughout this
lesson. /p/ will become memorable to the students by using a hand
gesture
and a picture. A tongue twister will also be used.
Finally, selecting words that begin with /p/ from
pictures will further demonstrate the importance of this phoneme.
Materials:
Numeroff, Laura. If you give a pig
a pancake. 1998.
Picture of popcorn popping
Chart paper displaying the tongue
tickler
Cardstock precut into the letter ''P''
SMARTboard
primary paper and
pencil
old magazines
scissors and clear tape
hole punch and string (optional)
1. Introduce the lesson by
explaining that our mouth moves a different way for every word we say.
''Today
we are going to work on finding the mouth move for /p/.'' The
children
will watch each other as they practice saying /p/.
''A lot of
words start with the letter p and after this lesson you will become
aware of
many.''
2. Ask the students: ''Have
you ever heard the sound popcorn makes when it is popping? (Show
picture) Yes, it makes the /p/
sound. Let's
practice making the /p/ sound with our hands. Try this! (Demonstrate
popping
fingers open from a fist.) Now, let's find the /p/ sound in some words.
3. ''We're going try a
tongue twister together (put chart up for students to see). You might know this one! Peter Piper
picked a peck of pickled peppers. Let's
say it together three more times. *say it three times Ok, let's try it one more time, but this time
I want us to pop our fingers open every time you hear the /p/ sound. *say it once more Great
job!''
4. Have students
test words for /p/. Ask students, "Do you hear /p/ in heap or heal? Good, it's in heap. What about wetor pet? Great job, it's in pet."
5. "Next we are
going to practice printing the /p/ sound. The letter p represents /p/ and is going to
help us spell.” Students should get a sheet of primary paper and a
pencil. I will model the correct way to write the letter p using the Smartboard. “To write a
p start with your pencil on
the fence, go straight down into the ditch, come up and put his chin on
the sidewalk. Now you are going to practice writing the letter p. I will be coming around the room
to check your work and once your work has been checked you can practice
writing it 5 more times.”
6. Introduce the
book If you give a pig a pancake:
''This is a funny story about a little pig that eats pancakes
with syrup
and he gets all sticky. What do you think will happen to that
little pig
after he eats his pancakes? We will have to read the story and
find out
what he does next. Now, while I read the story I want you to
listen for
the /p/ sound and when you hear it pop your fingers every time like we
did
earlier.''
Assessment:
5. Pass out the cardstock Ps,
scissors, tape, and old magazines to each student.
Tell students, ''So now that we have
practiced finding the /p/ sound in our story, it's your turn to find
the sound
/p/ that the letter P stands for in these magazines.
Cut out the pictures you see like if someone
is having a picnic or if someone is
eating a pickle. Tape the
pictures to your big P and we will
keep them together as a class.''
6. If time allows, have students
share the pictures they found that begin with the sound /p/. Afterward, the teacher can punch a hole in
the top of each letter, and hang it in a room with string or bind it as
a
shaped book.
References:
1. Adams, Marilyn Jager. Beginning to Read: Thinking and Learning About Print. 1990. p. 40
2. Shumock, Emily. Piggy Pancakes.
http://www.auburn.edu/academic/education/reading_genie/encounters/shumockel.html
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