Ride Your Motorcycle with M
Emergent Literacy Design
Rationale: This lesson will help children
identify /m/, the phoneme represented by M. Students will learn
to recognize /m/ in spoken words by relating the
meaningful representation of riding a motorcycle with M. We are
also going to learn the written letter
M. Students will practice finding /m/ in words to build phoneme
awareness
and distinguishing other alphabetic sounds from the sound /m/
Materials: Paper and
pencil; chart paper with "My Mom
Made Me a Mudpie Monday" drawing
paper
and crayons (enough for every child); Using our ABCs book (Random
House, 1984);
assessment worksheet (URL below).
Procedures:
1.
Say:
Language is a tricky thing to learn sometimes.
A good way to begin learning is to learn what
letters mean. We are going to be
learning sounds and how our mouth makes the sounds we hear. Today we are going to practice finding /m/.
We spell /m/ with the letter
M. When we ride our motorcycle and hear
the sound it makes we are making the /m/ sound and that is what the
letter M
represents.
2.
Let's act like we are riding a motorcycle. [Hold
hands out like handlebars and makes a "MMMM" sound]. Notice where your lips are located. Are your lips touching? Where
is your tongue? Are your teeth hitting
each other? When we say /m/ our lips are
touching and we
are blowing air from our throat out to make the sound.
3.
Now, we are going to find /m/ in some
words. I'm going to say the word, "mine",
but I am going to say it very slowly and stretch out the sounds. Listen for my motorcycle.
M-m-i-n-e.
Slower: Mmmmmm-i-i-i-nnnn-e.
There is was! I felt my lips
touch and felt air in my throat. I can
feel the motorcycle in "mine".
4.
Let's read this poem. "My Mom Made
Me a Mudpie on Monday". This is a poem about a child that gets a
special treat from their mother. I think
the treat is going to be a yummy treat!
Let's read and find out. Everyone
say it together. Let's say it again but
this time let's stretch out the /m/
sound at the beginning of the words.
Let's read it again but this time let's break apart the words and
separate the /m/ sound that we
hear. Now, let's read it twice
normally. Did you like that poem? Did you hear the /m/
sound in every word?
5. [Pass out paper
and
pencil] Now let's practice writing the letter M. The letter M is the
way we
write /m/. Start at the hat line, go straight down to
the shoe line. Start back up at the hat
line and draw a diagonal line to the shoe line.
Go up from the shoe line in another diagonal line to the hat
line.
Now draw a straight line down to the shoe
line. Let me see everyone's M. When you have a sticker on
your paper I want
you to fill up the rest of the paper with the letter M. Do your
best, I want to see excellent M's all
over your paper.
6.
Now we are going to read different words and
see if we can find the /m/ in
them. [Call on student] Do you hear /m/ in mud or
gun?
[Call on student] Do you hear /m/ in lake or lime? [Call on
student] Do you hear /m/ in time or shine? Now I
am going to say a sentence, I want to see everyone driving their
motorcycle
when they hear the /m/. My monkey, Mindy, mistakes me for my
mom.
7. Now let's read
the
alphabet book and see the letter M. We
are going to learn about the alphabet and the letters that are in the
alphabet! I wonder what is going to
happen in this story about our wonderful alphabet?
Let's find out! What are some things on this
page that you see that begin with the letter M? [Pass out paper and
crayons]
Tell students to come up with an animal of their choice and make up a
name for
their animal that begins with M. Then
children
can color their animal and write the name of their animal on the bottom
of the
paper (use invented spelling).
8.
For assessment, students will complete
worksheet. Students are to complete rows
of writing the letter M and the words that have the letter M on
worksheet
1. Then, on worksheet 2 students are to
color the pictures that begin with the letter M and if the pictures do
not
begin with an M they are to cross it out.
Assessment
worksheets:
1.
http://www.tlsbooks.com/letterm_1a.pdf
2.
http://www.tlsbooks.com/letterm_1.pdf
Reading Genie Website; Katie Defoor - "A-a-a-a, it's a snake!" http://www.auburn.edu/academic/education/reading_genie/sightings/defoorel.html