Ed the Elephant
Beginning to Read
Rebekah Woods
Rationale: This lesson will help children recognize the phoneme /e/ that is represented by E. For children to become
better readers they have to recognize phonemes in spoken words. This
lesson will help children reach mastery by spelling, writing and
reading.
Materials:
Picture of a rocking
chair
Letterbox squares
The letters:
f,l,e,d,s,p,b,n,c,t,r
Elf in
the Tent
book
(http://www.auburn.edu/academic/education/reading_genie/bookindex.html)
Pencils
Primary paper
Note cards with the
words reviewd during the letterbox lesson
Assessment worksheet
(What begins with E? kidzone.com)
Procedure:
Introduce: today
we're going to learn what sound the short e makes. Has
anyone ever sat in a rocking chair? What kind of sound does it make?
Right! It makes a /eeeee/ sound. We are going to practice making that
sound. When saying the /e/ sound we slightly open our
mouths and place our tongue on the bottom of our mouth. Try that a
couple of times. Good!
Now we're going to
read the tongue twister, "Ed the Elephant loves to enjoy eggs every
morning." Now all of you say it together. Good job!
Now every time you hear the short /e/ sound I
want you to stretch it out.
"Eeeed the eeeelephant loves to eat eeeegs eeevery morning." You all
did a great job!
I am going to say
some words and I want you to clap your hands whenever you hear the /e/ sound we have been practicing. Do you hear /e/
in:
Bed or tom
Red or hat
Fled or trip
Ben or flat
Pass out primary
paper to each student and tell them we are going to practice writing
the letter e. First model to the student
how to draw the letter, starting in the middle between the fence and
sidewalk you will draw a straight line towards the right window and
curve up and touch the fence. Go towards the left window and draw a
curve down to the sidewalk. Go towards the right window with a little
curve. You should finish halfway between where you started the e and
the sidewalk. Now I want all of you to try. I have checked all of your
papers and you are doing an awesome job! Let's try writing it 4 more
times.
Now students we are
going to practice spelling with the short e. Using out
letters and letterboxes we are going to spell out each mouth movement
we make when reading a word. I am going to do the first word. The word
is pet, I move my mouth 3 separate times when I say it /p/ /e/ /t/.
Now I want you to try with the following words 3- {bed, red} 4-
{sped, cent, bend} 5- {blend, spent, slept}.
I will walk around and check to make sure each child is spelling
the words correctly. I will have the kids read the words they just
spelled. (Using note cards)
Each child will be
given a copy of the book, Elf in the Tent. I will
introduce the book to them by giving a book talk, Jan gets a new tent
and she can't wait to go camping with her dad. But then they run into
some trouble when they have an unexpected visitor. To find out who it
is you have to finish the book. I will have each child read the book to
themselves but I will go around and have each child take a turn reading
parts of the book aloud to me.
After reading the
children they will write a short message about what their favorite
holiday is.
For assessment, I
will give each child a worksheet were the children will have to draw a
line from the words with a short /e/ sound to a box.
References:
Elf in
the Tent
by Geri Murray
Murray, Bruce.
Phoneme pictures for phonemes.
Hood, Lara.
http://www.auburn.edu/academic/education/reading_genie/sightings/hoodbr.html
Assessment-
http://www.kidzone.ws/kindergarten/vowels/e-begins1.htm