Click
Your Camera for C
Emergent
Literacy
Rationale:
This
lesson will help children identify /k/, the phoneme represented by C.
Students
will learn to recognize /k/ in spoken words by learning a meaningful
representation (clicking a camera) and the letter symbol C, practice
finding
/c/ in words, and apply phoneme awareness with /k/ in phonetic cue
reading by
distinguishing rhyming words from beginning letters.
Materials:
Primary paper and pencil; chart with
“Callie cooks cold carrot cake”; drawing paper and crayons/markers; Dr.
Seuss’s Cat in the Hat; word cards with CAR,
CASH, TAPE, CAKE, LOST, and CAP. Assessment worksheet found at: http://www.tlsbooks.com/letterc_1.pdf
Procedures:
1.
Say: Our written language is very tough
sometimes. The hard part is figuring out which letter makes each sound
and the
movement that your mouth makes for each letter. Today we are going to
work on
spotting the mouth move /k/. We spell /k/ with letter C. C looks like
the
button you push on a camera to take a picture, and /k/ sounds like
clicking
your camera when you take a picture.
2.
Let’s pretend to take a picture, /k/, /k/, /k/.
[clicking a camera]. Notice what position your mouth is in when you say
/k/.
When we say /k/, you open your mouth to say /k/, and then end with your
mouth
open as well. You try, and see what I mean. Air comes out of your mouth
as you
say the /k/ sound.
3.
Let me show you how to find /k/ in the word because. I’m
going to stretch because out in super slow motion and
listen for my camera click. B-ee-c-c---ause. Slower: B-ee-c-c-c-a-use.
There it
was! I felt my mouth open and stay open after that /k/ sound, and then
I said
the rest of the word. I can feel my mouth make that camera /k/ (click)
in because.
4.
Let’s try a tongue twister (on chart). “Callie
cooks cold carrot cake.” Everybody say is three times together. Now say
it
again, and the time, stretch the /k/ at the beginning of the words.
“Cccallie
cccooks cccold cccarrot cccake.” Try it again, and this time break it
off the
word: “/k/ allie /k/ ooks /k/ old /k/ arrot /k/ ake.”
5.
(Have students take our primary paper and pencil)
We use letter C to spell /k/. Capital
C looks like a button on the camera. Let’s write the lowercase letter c. Start on the fence line, and then
bring it down and around to the bottom line to make a little c. It will
look
just like the capital letter C, but a little c. I want to see
everybody’s c. After I put a smile on it for super,
I want you to make nine more just like it.
6.
Call on students to answer and tell how they
knew: Do you hear /k/ in dog or cat? Jar
or can? Camp or home?
Walk or climb? Clean
or dirty? Hot or cold?
Father or doctor? Say: Let’s see if
you can spot the /k/ (click) sound on some
of these words. Take your picture if you hear /k/: car,
bat, rug, came, cup, sit, saw, in, cop, the, card, come.
7.
Say: Let’s look at a fun rhyming, alphabet book.
Dr. Suess tell us about a silly animal whose name starts with a C. Can
you
guess what it is? Read, and draw out/k/ in “C-c-cat
in the hat.” Ask the students if they can think of other words with
/k/. Ask
them to make up a rhyme that has one word that starts with /k/ like Cat in the Hat does, like bake the cake,
or the car drives far. Then have each child
write their rhyming title that they came up with, and then let them
draw a
picture of their word that starts with /k/. Display their work in the
classroom
for everyone to see each other’s ideas.
8.
Show CAR and model how to decide if it is car or far: The C tell me to
take my picture, /k/, so this word is ccc-ar,
car. You try some: CASH: cash or
bash? TAPE: cape or tape? CAKE: cake or make? LOST: lost or cost? CAP:
tap or
cap?
9.
For assessment, distribute the worksheet.
Students are to circle the picture that starts with the letter C and
makes /k/
sound. They can then color each word that they circled.
Assessment
worksheet: http://www.tlsbooks.com/letterc_1.pdf
T.
Smith Publishing. 2006. www.tlsbooks.com
(main website that I got the worksheet from)
Bruce
Murray. Brush Your Teeth With F http://www.auburn.edu/academic/education/reading_genie/sightings/murrayel.html
Samantha
McClendon. Who is Knocking at that Door
Door Door? http://www.auburn.edu/academic/education/reading_genie/voyages/mcclendonel.html