Wildlife
Watching with Mrs. W
Emergent Literacy
Rational:
Letter
Recognition is a very important when children are learning to read. The
reason
letter recognition is so important is because letters represent the
phonemes in
spoken words, and recognizing letters and their corresponding phonemes
enables
children to make sense of words. The letter that will be focused on in
this
lesson is W. The lesson will help develop the student‰€™s
phoneme
awareness of /w/. By the end of
this lesson, children should be able to recognize and write upper and
lower
case W.
Materials
Needed:
1. Have a poster
with tongue
twister- Wilma Walrus waddles through the wonderful water.
2. The
Worrywarts by Pamela Duncan Edwards
3. Primary Paper
4. Pencils
5. Dry Erase Board
6. Dry Erase Marker
7. Assessment
Worksheet- Where
they must circle the animals that have the /w/ sound.
8. Fun coloring
Worsheet
http://www.teacherplanet.com/links/redirect.php?url=http://www.everythingpreschool.com/alphabet/W/
2.
Now boys and girls we are going to help Mrs. W figure out which animals
have
the /w/ sound in their
name. Let's do one together. Does walrus or
elephant have the /w/sound? Wwwwalrus or
eeelephant? I hear the /w/
sound in walrus. Did you hear it?
Now, you are going to try a
few. Ask students: Do you hear the /w/ sound in tiger
or weasel? How about woodchuck or panther? How about grasshopper
or wombat?
3.
Next boys and girls I am going to show you Mrs. W‰€™s Wacky Tongue
Twister. I am
going to read you the wacky tongue twister and then you are going to
repeat it
back to me. Is everyone ready?! Put your listening ears on so you
can
help Mrs. W find the /w/
sound. The
poster says, Wilma walrus waddles through the wonderful water. I
will make
sure to add emphasis on the /w/
sound. Now we are going to say it together
making sure to say the /w/
sound. Don‰€™t forget to act like you calling an
animal. Lets say it together: Wwwwilma wwwwalrus wwwaddles through the
wwwonderful wwwater. Very good!
4.
Okay students Mrs. W has just told me one of her most important jobs is
to be
able to write the names of the animals she sees, so we are going to
learn how
to write the letter w.
Everyone get out your primary paper! I will use the dry
erase board and marker to demonstrate. To write capital W, we have to make a
big slant down from the roof to the sidewalk, a big slant up from the
sidewalk
to the roof, a big slant down from the roof to the sidewalk, and a big
slant up
from the sidewalk to the roof. I will have the students practice
writing these
several times. To make a lower case w,
we have to make a small slant down from
the fence to the sidewalk, small slant up from the sidewalk to the
fence, small
slant down from the fence to the sidewalk, small slant up from the
sidewalk to
the fence. I will then have the students practice writing these several
times.
5.
Now boys and girls Mrs. W wants us to read our book, The
Worrywarts. Now boys and girls I want you to snap when you here
a word that begins with the /w/
sound. So everyone listen very closely!
6. I
will then give the students a worksheet that has animals that begin
with /w/
that we have covered and they must circle only the animals that begin
with /w/.
7.
For fun, I will give the students a coloring sheet of the letter W. It has
different animals that begin with w embedded
in it.
References:
Cadrette,
Mallory, Messy Monkeys http://www.auburn.edu/academic/education/reading_genie/encounters/cadretteel.html
Murray,
Bruce, Reading Genie http://www.auburn.edu/academic/education/reading_genie/
Stewart,
Hannah, Mr. B‰€™s Big Buttons
http://www.auburn.edu/academic/education/reading_genie/encounters/stewartel.html