Allen
the Alligator
Rational: Vowels are very important
for students
beginning to read to learn. Students
need to learn the vowels for the students to be able to sound out the
words. This lesson works with the vowel a and learning the /a/=/a/
correspondence by using letterboxes, reading words and books that
contain the
/a/ correspondence.
Materials:
1. The book A Cat Nap by Educational
Insights c1990
2. Picture with baby crying with the /a/
sound.
3. A chart with the tongue twister. Andrew and
Alice asked if Annie's active animals were angry.
4. Letterboxes for each student.
5. Plastic letters for each student.
6. List of the words the students will spell.
Ant
Bat
At
Pad
Fit
Sad
Cat
Clap
7. Larger letterbox and letters for
demonstration
8. Primary paper
9. Pencils
10. Projector
11. Cards with different pseudowords
mag, cag, gan,
las, mas
Procedure:
1. "Today we are going to work with the
letter a. Can anyone tell me what sound
the letter a makes? Great! It makes
the sounds /a/. It kind of sounds like a
baby crying doesn't it? Let's all cry
like a baby and make that/a/ sound.
aaaaaaa. Great!"
I will hold up the picture of the baby crying
when we do this.
2. "We hear that /a/ sound in a lot of
words we read and say don't we? Like at,
fat, or bat." Since we hear this sound so much we are going to learn
all
about it today!"
3. "Now let's do this fun tongue twister
that has a lot of our /a/ sound in it! I will read it first then we
will read
it all together. Andrew and Alice asked if
Annie's active animals were
angry. Ok now everyone! Andrew and Alice asked if Annie's active
animals were
angry. Great Job!"
4. Next, we will work on our letterboxes. I will give each student their letterboxes and
letters (a,
n, t, b, p, d, s, c, l). Then I will
explain what we are going to do. "Ok
we are going to do our letterboxes now! I am going to say a word and I
want you
to spell it using your letters I gave you and your letterboxes. Remember each letterbox represents one sound!"
I will then place my letterboxes on the projector and demonstrate how
to do it.
"I am going to spell the word mat.
I am going to put the m in the
first box because it makes the /m/ sound.
Next I will put my /a/ in the
next box because remember that makes the /a/ sound.
Now for the third box I am going to put both
of my t's in the same box because the make the /t/ sound."
5. "Now I am going to give you some words
that I want you to spell in your letterboxes: 2. (at) 3. (ant, pad,
bat, fit,
sad, cat) 4. (clap)
6.
After
everyone has spelled the words I will spell them on the projector and
have them
read them to me. (Everyone did a great job with their letterbox lesson!
Everyone did really well with the /a/ sound!"
7.
"Now
we are going to read the book A Cat Nap! How many of you have
cats at
home? I bet some of those cats are pretty lazy and like to take naps
anywhere
they can! Well this book is about a lazy cat that decided to take a nap
in his
owner's bag! Let's see what happens when the owner takes the bag
without
knowing his cat is in it!"
8. After we have read the book I will pass out
the primary paper and pencils and each student will write about a funny
cat
they have or if they don't have one they can make up a story. "Ok
everyone! Now we are all going to use the /a/ sound we learned and
write about
a silly cat we know! If you do not know a cat to write about you can
make one
up!"
Assessment: Have each student read pseudowords
containing
the a= /a/
correspondence. Use the following pseudowords {mag, cag, gan,
las, mas}.
A
Cat Nap by
Education Insights c1990
Boulware,
Ashley Aaaaaa is for short /a/ http://www.auburn.edu/academic/education/reading_genie/navig/boulwarebr.html
rdggenie
http://www.auburn.edu/academic/education/reading_genie/
Wallach
and Wallach's Tongue Twisters