Ch
Ch Ch Choo Choo Blending
Emergent
Literacy (Blending)
Rationale: The goal of this
lesson is to improve student's blending skills. Blending is important
in emergent literacy because students need to know how to produce many
short individual utterances and mouth moves (phonemes), and combine
them into one long utterance (word). Students will create their own
blending train using the
vowel first, body coda method.
Materials: (Advance
preparation) Make one train engine for each student and 4 train cars to
follow behind. Make and laminate all 26 lowercase letters of the
alphabet so each student will have their own set.
Chugga Chugga Choo Choo by Kevin Lewis. Hyperion
Books. 1999.
Procedure:
(1)
Today, we will be learning about
blending.
Blending is very important in reading. So what is blending?
Blending is taking each sound of the word and putting them all together
to say the word without pausing or stopping. We will use our train to
make blending quick and smooth just like how a train travels down the
tracks.
(2) First we will review all the sounds
in the alphabet by singing our alphabet sound song. Ok, 1, 2, ready
sing /a//a/apple, /b//b/ball. We will continue the song all
the way through /z//z/zoo it was fun and now we're through.
(3) Now, we will use our knowledge of
the sounds of letters to spell words on our blending train. I will do
the first one with you. I will put the word map on the
board. Then I will model how to use my knowledge of the letter sounds
to put the letter in the train cars.
I know that m= /m/, so /m/ and a sounds like
/a/. I need to put them together. So, I put the m in the first car, and
the a in the second car. I will start blending aloud so the children
can hear my thought process. I know that a says /a/ and there is an m
in front of the a, so that says /ma/. I know that p= /p/. So if I add
/p/ to /ma/ then I get map!
(4)
Students will partner up for additional practice with blending using
their letter box train car. While the students are taking turns in
their groups, the teacher should be walking around the room watching
for students who need one-on-one help.
Now it is your turn. I want you to
practice blending the word cat. Remember to start with the vowel sound, and then
work your way from the beginning of the word allllll the way to the
end. There should only be one letter in each box.
(5) I will
then do a read aloud of Chugga Chugga Choo Choo
by Kevin Lewis. Booktalk:
This book is called Chugga Chugga
Choo Choo. It is about a cute little train who works all day and all
night to make sure he delivers his load. To find out whether or not he
delivers it on time, you have to read this wonderful story.
(6) The
students will be assessed by using their new blending skills to sound
out simple words from the story that the teacher chooses.
References:
Alphabet
song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-HPhBYqmtE