Let's Bounce with B's!
By: Allison Bragg
Emergent Literacy
Rationale: This lesson will help students in
identifying the phoneme /b/, which is represented by the graphemes b
and B.
This is important for students to learn because before students
can recognize letters in words, they need to be able to recognize the
phonemes that the individual letters make. The
students will learn a meaningful connection to /b/ to help them
remember that sound. They will practice
the sound by pairing it with a movement.
Students will also practice writing b and B.
In addition, students will practice the sound by completing
different activities that require them to pick out the /b/ in spoken
and written words
Materials:
Basketball
Brown Bear Brown Bear What
Do You See? By Eric Carle. Henry Holt and Company (1996).
� poster with the letter b and a picture of a basketball
� poster with the tongue tickler: The boys bounced their basketballs.
Lined paper and pencils
A list of the following words to be called out to students: bake, beam,
sand, bark, clan, and bait
Note cards with one of the following words on each:
band, book, blue, beep, back
Assessment sheets (linked below)
Procedures:
1. Today class, we are going to learn about the letter /b/.
You will learn that big B and little b make the same sound,
which is "buh."
We will learn how to make that sound, write B and b, and
practice deciding which words have /b/ in them.
2. Let's practice making the /b/ sound. When you make the sound /b/, close your lips,
then open your lips making the "buh" sound.
Let's try that as a class, "buh."
Great job class. Now when you make
the /b/ sound, make the motion like you are bouncing a basketball.
Everytime you say /b/, push your hand down like you are pushing
the ball down to the ground. Let's try
that as a class "buh" (make sure everyone is doing the motion).
3. Great job making that /b/ sound with
the basketball motion. Now class I am
going to help you find that /b/ in the word bake.
Listen and watch my mouth for the /b/: buh-aaaake.
Did you hear the /b/? Try it with
me: buh-aaaake. It's right at the
beginning, great job!
4. Now, I am going to read the book
Brown Bear Brown Bear What Do You See? by Eric Carle. Listen closely for the /b/ sound!
5. Now class, I am going to tell you a
tongue tickler that will help you remember what sound /b/ makes.
I'll say it first and then you will repeat it after me: The boys
bounced a basketball. Great job.
Did you hear the /b/ in boys, bounced, and basketball?
Now, let's stretch out the /b/ sound when we say the sentence:
The /bbbbb/oys /bbbb/ounced their /bbbb/asket/bbbb/alls.
Great job! Finally, let's break off
the /b/ in each of those words: /b/-oys, /b/-ounced, /b/-basket,
/b/-alls.
6. Now let's take out our lined paper and
pencils to practice writing a lowercase b.
Start at the rooftop and draw a straight line past the sidewalk
and all the way down to the fence. Then
bounce off of the fence, go back up to the sidewalk, and curve it back
down to the fence and connect it to your straight line.
Now you try, bounce down, bounce up and around.
Very good! After I look at everyone's, I want you to draw five
more and say "bounce down, bounce up and around as you write the b."
7. Now I am going to call out a list of
words and if you hear the /b/ in a word, I want you to bounce your
basketball: bake, beam, sand, bark, clan, and bait.
Good job! I saw basketballs being
bounced on bake, beam, bark, and bait!
8. Ok class, y'all are doing such a great
job with learning /b/. Now I am going to
show you how to decide if a word has /b/ in it or not.
Look at this word (hold up card with band), I wonder if this
says band or hand. Let me slowly sound it
out: b-and. I heard the /b/, so it must be
band! Now I want you to try these words. Hold up book and say "Is this book or took?";
hold up blue and say "Is this blue or glue?"; hold up beep and say "Is
this beep or jeep?"; hold up back and say "Is this back or sack?"
9. Everyone did such a good job with /b/. Now I would like each of you to complete this
activity sheet.
References:
Lipham, Haley:
http://www.auburn.edu/academic/education/reading_genie/sightings/liphamel.html
http://www.auburn.edu/academic/education/reading_genie/letters.html
http://bogglesworldesl.com/initial_sounds.htm