Open Wide AHHHH(/o/)
Rationale: In order to become a
skillful reader, students must become familiar and understand the
relationship between letters and their sounds, or graphemes and
phonemes. Beginning readers need to be aware of the different phonemes
in words. Vowels can sound more than one way, short or long, which is a
reason that students tend to have difficultly in mastering their
vowels. My focal point for this lesson is the short vowel o.
This lesson will teach children how to recognize short o and
use the short
o sound by using tongue ticklers, letterbox lessons,
and authentic reading.
Materials:
Chart paper with the tongue tickler: "Oliver the otter loves to hop on
top of Oscar the octopus."
Dry erase board with
makers and an eraser
Books:
Doc in the Fog- Shelia Cushman;
Educational Insights, Carson CA, 1990 (enough for each student.
Lowercase letter box
letters for each student (a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, j, l, o, p, t, z)
Letterboxes for each
student
Short O
worksheet (attached)
Procedure:
1.
We all know
that each letter of the alphabet is very special in it own way. Today
we are going to learn about what makes the letter O special.
The main reason it is special is the way our mouth moves when we say it.
2.
Think about when you go to the doctor. The doctor gets a popsicle stick
out and says, "Open wide." What do you say? "Ahhhhhh." Let's pretend
that we are at the doctor and make the /o/ sound? This is the sound the
letter O makes.
3. Let's say our tongue
tickler. Listen first as I say it, then we can say it together (point
to each word as you say it).
Oliver the otter loves to hop on top of Oscar the octopus. Did you
hear any doctor O's in there? I did! Let's say it together and
make our Doctor
O motion each time we hear it. (Say it together). Wonderful! This
time we are going to stretch out each doctor O. Remember the
doctor motion our mouth makes--ready, set, go! Oooliver the oootter
loooves to hooop ooon tooop of Oooscar the oooctopus. Way to go!
4.
We are going to
practice hearing /o/ in different words. I'm going to say a word and I
want you to tell me if it has the "doctor O".
If you hear the /o/ sound I want you to say
"AHHH", if you do not hear I want you to say "no way!" If I said do you
hear /o/ in dog, you would say "AHHH" because we hear the
"doctor O" sound.
5.
You try some
this time. Do you hear "doctor O" in: Log?
Rake? Fog? Hot? Cold?
6.
Everybody get out their letterboxes and the letters I have given you.
We are going to practice spelling and reading some different words that
have the /o/ sound. I am going to do the first one, and then it will be
your turn. I will lay out four letterboxes for all of the sounds in my
word. When I say drop I hear our "doctor O". I also
hear the sounds /d/, /r/, /o/, /p/. Since I hear the /d/ sound first it
goes in my first box. The /r/ sound comes next so it goes in the second
box. Next I hear my "doctor O" sound so I put it in the third
box. I hear the /p/ sound next. That means it goes in my fourth box.
Now, let's sound out this word together.
7.
Now it is your
turn to use your letterboxes. Let's do it together. Letterbox words
(most words are short /o/ words, but there are also some review sound
words): 3 {dog, hat, hop, jet, jog, log, zot}, 4{crop, frog, stop},
5{strong}. (Use the same method as listed above)
8.
We are going to
read a book together that has the /o/ sound in it. Our book is called Doc
in the Fog. What words have the /o/ sound in the title of the book?
This book is about a Wizard that uses his wand and his magic word,
"zot," to change things into different things. Let's read and find out
if it works.
9.
Now we are
going to practice reading some words. I am going to use my dry erase
board to write a word. I want you to help me figure out what the word
is. Our first word is: block. Can we sound that out together?
Blllooock. Great job. Our next word is: sod. How do you know
what that word is? Break it up into sounds.
10. I want everyone to help me read a book. We are going to read this
book together and decided if we hear the "doctor O" sound in
some of the words. The name of our book is Hop on Pop. This
story uses rhyming words. Let's read the book and find out what words
have the /o/ sound.
11.
Finally give the students two short o worksheet. I have three
different worksheets. Throughout this lesson I will have paid enough
attention to see those students that have a great understanding of
short /o/ and I will give them the more advanced worksheet. For the
other students that need more practice I will give them an on-level
worksheet. All of the students will receive a worksheet that focuses on
writing with the short
o sound. While the students are working on their
worksheets, I will call them up one by one and have them read
Doc in the Fog to me. As they read I will do a running
record.
Resources:
Hop on Pop by Dr. Seuss; Random House
1963
Doc in the Fog by Shelia Cushman;
Educational Insights, Carson CA, 1990
Letterbox Materials/
how to's:
http://www.auburn.edu/academic/education/reading_genie/letbox.html
Advanced Short o Worksheet
http://www.homeeducationresources.com/free/phonics/shortCNP5.pdf
On-Level Short o Worksheet
http://www.kidzone.ws/kindergarten/vowels/o-begins1.htm
Writing Short o Worksheet
http://www.homeeducationresources.com/free/phonics/shortWD9.pdf
Dr. O by Taylor Swann
http://www.auburn.edu/academic/education/reading_genie/journeys/swannbr.htm
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