Shhh…I
See a Fish!
Beginning
Literacy
Materials:
A
Crash in the Shed
by Geri Murray (copies for teacher and
students)
Worksheets
Pencils
Chart
paper with tounge
twister on it
Letter
squares (a, c, e, f, h, i, o, p, r, s, t) *for
each student
Letter
boxes (a set of 2
and 6 for each student)
Cut
out of Mr. Shiny
(the smiley face clip art)
See
attached worksheets
Procedure:
Welcome
to more
adventures on phonemes everybody! Today we are going to continue
talking about
phonemes. Can anyone remind me what a phoneme is? (A vocal gesture.)
Right. How
about when they (phonemes) are together… we call them a digraph. Di
means two
and (in this case) graph is a letter or combination of letters. So
digraph
means two letters!
So,
what if you heard a
train (making the sound we last learned) coming down the tracks, "Chhh,
Chhh, Chhh!" and you knew that your mom was sleeping and did not want
to
be disturb…what will you do? (Any ideas?) Let’s see if we can all close
our
eyes and softly say, "Shhh." Say that with me, shhh. Good! Now what
is your mouth doing when you make the /sh/ sound? (Lips make a loose
kissy or
fish face and air slips out between the teeth.)
Okay,
now I am going to show you a picture to
help you remember our new phoneme. Here it is! (hold up picture of the
smiley
face.) What is he doing? He is saying, "shhhh." Like when you tell
someone
to be quiet, right? Shhh. Put your finger over your mouth like our
model, Mr.
Shiny (hold up poster picture and also model the pose) shhh.
Now
it is time for our tongue twister! Here it
is! (Show the chart paper with tongue twister: Shells on the shore show
fish
how to wish for a shooting splash.) Say it with me this time. Okay, now
whenever you hear that shhh I want you to put your finger over your
lips like
Mr. Shiny and pull out your best shhh.
I
want everyone to listen very closely now. I am
going to say some words and I want you to tell me which one you hear
shhh in.
Let me tell you what I mean, if the words were lash or brow, I would
think to
myself, lash, brow. Lash has that shhh sound, right? Okay, let's get
started.
(Words: fish or dog, trash or garbage, pan or dish, sink or shower?)
Everyone
get your letterboxes out of your
phoneme kit. We are going to do a letterbox activity now. I want you to
make
your boxes so that there are 3 boxes. Who can tell me what the boxes
stand for?
(Phonemes in the word.) If I were going to spell the word "crash" I
would do it like this: /c/, /r/, /cr/, /a/, /cra/, /crash/…crash… yes,
crash!
Spell the words as I say them. (3 phoneme words: fish, rash, shop) Now
make 4
boxes. (4 phoneme words: trash, crash ‘like above’, fresh)
***letters needed for each student = a, c, e,
f, h, i, o, p, r, s, t)
Now
I will pass a new
book and worksheet to each student. Our new book is called The
Crash in the
Shed.
Booktalk:
Jan and Tim are trying to decide if they want to fish or look
for shells one day. They could not pick one so they decided to do both.
When
they walked over to the shed to get their tools for fishing and
searching for
shells, their cat, Elf, jumps up and causes a huge crash! I wonder what
is
going to happen then? I want you all to read the book to yourself at
your desk
silently. Make sure you read because I am going to call each of you one
at a
time up to my desk to read to me.
Assessment:
Each student will complete a worksheet by selecting from a few
pairs of pictures and circling those with /sh/ in the picture’s name.
*attached*
References:
Reading
Genie Website: http://www.auburn.edu/rdggenie
("Shhh...
I am trying to sleep" by Larkin Ade)
·
Genie
Book in
PowerPoint: http://www.auburn.edu/%7Emurrag1/bookindex.html,
The Crash in the Shed by Geri Murray
·
Reading Genie Website:
http://www.auburn.edu/academic/education/reading_genie/encounters/killenbr.html ("Shhh! I heard a crash!")
WORKSHEET: CIRCLE the names of each picture (a word) that has the diagraph, sh.