Terrific Talking T's
Emergent Readers
Rational:
Letter recognition and
phoneme awareness are very important factors in early literacy. The
goal of
this lesson is to teach letter recognition for the letter t. The
students will learn the sound that is made by the letter t and
the mouth
gestures that go along with the letter T.
My goal is for the student to be able to recognize the upper and lower
case
letter t and be able to write them correctly. The student will
also
learn a hand gesture when writing the letter t. My goal also is for the
student to be able to recognize the phoneme in spoken letter of t
as
well as the letter when combined with other letters in the form of a
word.
Student will also be able to print the letter t and
recognize it in print.
Materials:
Chalk
Pencils
Primary paper
Tongue Twister
Chart paper with rhyming words
Book:
Turtle Splash! Countdown at the Pond By
Cathryn
Falwell
(Illustrator)
Procedures:
“Today’s
lesson, we are going to be focusing
on the letter t. Can anyone tell me
what sound the letter t makes? (allow
for response)Yes! It makes the t/u sound just like in the word t-ap. I
want you
to say the word t-ap and notice the shape your tongue and teeth make
when you
say the t sound in the word t-ap. Do
you notice how your tongue touches the top of your mouth and then it
hit you
teeth? Yes! That’s the t sound. Great
Job!”
“I’m going to show you what
the letter t looks like and the correct
way to write the letter t.” The
letter T will be displayed near by on
a poster board. “Ok class I will demonstrate the hand gesture for the
upper
case T: Let’s start at the housetop; go down to the sidewalk,
and cross
at the house top. Lower case: start below the housetop; go down to the
sidewalk; but this time instead of crossing at the housetop we are
going to
cross at the fence. The upper case T
is just like mommy and daddy because they are very tall and the lower
case t is the just like the baby and he is
smaller.”
Now I will model how to use t
by a tongue twister. Now let’s say a funny
tongue twister and see
if we hear the t sound! Tommy Tuberville takes the tiger transit to
tiger town on Tuesday. (tongue
twister on chart paper). We will draw
out the t’s.
Next practice finding /t/
in spoken words and in written words.
Let’s see if we can find
out new letter t in words that we say.
Talk/loud, tease/mean,
train/caboose, tall/short, tiger/lion
Sometimes it may help to
remember something if we put a motion with it. Let’s tap our feet three
times
and make the T-T-T- sound. “Now every time we tap lets say the
sound
that t. makes” As they are
tapping at a steady pace they should be saying “t-t-t-t-t”
“Let’s try another tongue
twister. “Tom tried to tie Tammy’s
Turtles tie.” I will read it first and then when I finish you read it
two times
along with me. Now you try to read it alone, as I point to the
words. “Very
good” I am going to read it with you again very slow and every time you
hear t sound I want you to tap your
feet. “T-om t-ried to t-ie T-ammy’s T-urtles t-ie”.
Next I will have the students come to the
white board and have them circle the words that rhyme.
(tile/smile, talk/walk, train/pain)
“Now
it is time to hear a story.” “Today
when we read our story, I want you to listen very carefully for the /t/
sound
that we”ve been talking about. What letter makes that
sound?
Right! The letter t!” “Every time that you hear t
sound in the story; I want you to tap your feet.” Teacher will do
a brief
book talk about the story; Turtle Splash! Countdown at the Pond. This
story starts with ten timid turtles lounging in a line, and along comes
a bull
frog that startled the turtles. What do you think will happen? Let’s
find out!
Assessment:
In
order
to assess what we have learned I will give the students a coloring
sheet and
ask them to color only the pictures that start with a /t/.
References:
http://www.kidzone.ws/prek_wrksht/learning-letters/t.htm
T-T-T Tapping
Turtle by
Pamela Bailey