Colorful
Cats
Emergent
Literacy
By:
Heather Smith
Rationale:
Letter
recognition is one of the first things children learn to help them
begin their
reading skills. They will then begin to learn the phoneme connection to
the
letters. This lesson will help teach the main phoneme for the letter C by helping students make a
letter-sound relationship. It will also help teach students how to
recognize
the letter C in spoken words.
Materials:
primary
paper for each student
pencils
1
copy of the book If You Give a Cat a Cupcake by Laura
Joffe Numeroff
word
list: cow, cupcake, picnic,
frog, doughnut, bear,
cookie, picture, cat,
dog,
claw, number, lion, sun,
flower
flash
cards of words from word
list above
picture
cards of: cat, dog, bird,
cow, car, mouse, horse, cake, clown, fish, boat, tiger, cookie, lion,
crab
chart
with tongue twister: “Cassie
carried the cat to the colorful car”.
Procedures:
1).
In this lesson we will teach
and discuss with the students the letter c
and its phoneme. Say, “Today we will be learning about the letter c and its/k/ sound. One example of the
/k/ sound can be explained as follows: “The letter C
sounds like the crackling of the fire wood you hear while
roasting marshmallows”.
2).
Give the student a sheet of
primary paper and a pencil. Give them instructions on how to write the
letters
if necessary. First model how to make the letter uppercase and
lowercase for
them and then allow them to try. Have the student write the uppercase
and
lowercase C on the lines just to help
ensure that they can recognize the letter in written text.
~C –start just below the rooftop, go up to touch, around
and up
~c –start like little a; go up and touch the fence, then
around and
up.
3).
Hold up chart with the tongue
twister on it. Read it to them first “Cassie carried the cat to the
colorful
car” and then have them repeat it with you. Have them draw out the /k/
sound as
it is read together. “Cccassie cccarried the cccat to the cccolorful
cccar.” See if they can do it on their
own.
4).
Now use the flash cards with
words with and without the letter C
in them. Read the word out loud to the student and have them tell you
whether
or not they hear the /k/ sound. Word list: cow,
cupcake, picnic, frog,
doughnut, bear, cookie,
picture, cat, dog, claw, number, lion, sun, and
flower.
Show them the cards and let them point out or tell you the location of
the
letter C in the words.
5).
Now use the picture cards.
Hold up a card without saying what the picture is and let the student
tell you
if they recognize what the picture is and if the /k/sound is in the
word.
Pictures: cat, dog, bird, cow, car, mouse, horse, cake, clown, fish,
boat,
tiger, cookie, lion and crab.
6).
As an assessment, give the
student a worksheet and a pencil. The worksheet will have pictures of 6
different
things on it with and without the /k/ sound. The name of the picture
will be
provided. Have them circle the pictures that have the /k/ sound. Have
them put
an “x” mark on the ones that do not have the /k/ sound.
7).
A book that can be used for
this lesson is If You Give a Cat a
Cupcake by Laura Joffe Numeroff. You can start by giving a book
talk to
introduce the book to get them interested. Read the book to the
students and
have them make the crackling of the fire wood sound every time they
hear a word
with the /k/ sound in it.
References:
The
Reading Genie Website:
P
is for Pumpkin. By:
Cierra Haslam
http://www.auburn.edu/academic/education/reading_genie/passages/haslamel.html
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