Fishing
Frenzy
Emergent
Literacy
Rationale:
Learning to spell and read is essential to a child's education. These
two
concepts can be difficult for a student. Before students can match
letters to
phonemes they have to recognize phonemes in spoken word concepts. The
best way
for teachers to educate their students in phoneme awareness is coming
up with a
creative way to help children see the connection between the sound and
what it
looks like (print). Learning a consonant is different than learning a
vowel. Today
we will be learning to recognize the phoneme /f/. We will learn symbols
and
representations to help us remember the sound it makes when we come
across /f/
in a word.
Materials:
-Primary
paper and pencil
-baby swimming
pool
-paper
fishes with words on them
-
silly sentence on paper
-magnetic
fishing pole
-book
Procedures:
1."Today
class, we will be learning about the
letter /f/. We will see the /F/ and /f/ both make the same sound. They both make a "ffff" sound. We
will break up into groups and play a "go-fishing game" to learn how
to read and spell with words that have the letter "f" in them."
2."When
we pronounce words with the letter /f/
in it, our lips and teeth meet to make the sound. You
have a funny face when you move your lips
and teeth to make this sound. It reminds me of a fish when you
pronounce the
letter /f/. Can we all make that sound together? Look at your neighbor
and see
if they look like a fish to you."
3."Let's
try a silly sentence to practice on our
/f/ sound. 'The funny furry fly flew far to the flowers.' Let's say it
together
now 3 times. Now say it again, and this time stretch the /f/ at the
beginning
of the words. "The fffunny ffffury fffly ffflew fffar to the ffflowers.
Can you look at your neighbor and say it again making the fishy face?"
4.Let's
take out our paper and pencil; we are going
to practice writing big / F/ and little /f/. Let's practice the big /F/
first.
Go down, over his hat, over his belt (but no shoes). Ya'll all did a
great job!
Now let's do the little /f/. We start by making a little c up in the
air, then
straighten it out, go down, and cross at the fence. Awesome job! Now, I
am
going to come around and give you each a fish sticker. I want you to
write
big/F/ and little /f/ 7 more times. When you see the letter /F/ and /f/
then
you will remember it makes the fishy sound /f/.
5.
Let's practice and see how to find /f/ in the word
life. I am going to say the word
slowly and you need to listen to see when you make the fishy face. Ok
listen
carefully, l-l-i-i-f-f-f. e-e. I saw your face make the fishy face so
/f/ must
be in the word life.
6.Call
on students to answer and tell how they know:
Do you hear /f/ in life or sad? Safe or
harm? Feel or deal? For or nor? Now we are going to play a game
that will
help us read and write words with /f/ in them. We will get in 4 groups.
Each
group will have a different color: red, blue, green, and yellow. When I call on you, you will go to the
swimming pool and use the pole to catch a fish out of the pool. Then
your group
will read the word the best you can. Every color is worth a certain
amount of
points. After all the fish are caught then the game is over. The team
with the
most points wins.
7.After
we play game, we will read Dr. Seuss', One fish, two fish,
red fish, blue fish.
Every time the children hear the /f/ then they have to turn to their
neighbor
sitting next to them and do their fishy face quietly. We will write
them on the
board and then each group can write the words on the board on their own
fishes
and put them in the swimming pool.
8.For
a phoneme awareness assessment, have a
worksheet that has many fishes with words that have the phoneme /f/ on
them. If
it is a word with the phoneme /f/ then they color the fish yellow, red,
blue,
or green. If not then they do not color it at all. This will help you
see which
students understand the concept of the phoneme /f/ and who is not.
References:
Clark,
Kathryne. Max's Magic Magnets http://www.auburn.edu/academic/education/reading_genie/invent/clarkel.html.
Murray,
Bruce. The Reading Genie. http://www.auburn.edu/academic/education/reading_genie/.