Beginning Reading Lesson
By: Sarah Anne Wilkes
Crying
Baby
Beginning Reading Lesson
By: Sarah Anne Wilkes
Rational:
For
student to become successful in reading they must be able to realize
that each
letter represents a phoneme. In this lesson students will be able to
identify
the letter a and its phoneme /a/. Students will be able to identify the
/a/
sound by a letterbox lesson, tongue twister, pseudo words, and a
decoded book.
Materials:
Poster
with a crying baby (from clip art)
Poster
with tongue twister: Andrew and Alice asked if Annie's active animals
were
angry
Elkonin
boxes for each student
Elkonin
big boxes for teacher
letters
for student: a,t,m,n,f,c,b,s,d,t,g,l,k,h,r
big
letters for teacher: a,t,m,n,f,c,b,s,d,t,g,l,k,h,r
Sam
the Ant, by
Eleanor McDavid (book for each student and for the teacher) (http://www.auburn.edu/academic/education/reading_genie/teacherbooks/SamtheAnt.ppt)
primary
paper for each student
pencil
for each student
message
topic: favorite thing to do outside
list
of pseudo words: RAF, LAN, NAM, DAT, BAP
Procedures:
1.Can
you remember what type a sound a baby makes when they cry? Put a
picture of a
crying baby on the board. Demonstrate the hand motion of a crying baby.
When I
hear a baby cry it sounds like the short /a/ sound to me. "Here is what
the /a/ sounds like (I will demonstrate the sound along with my hand
gesture)".
Hand gesture: rub beside my eyes with my fists. Now I want all of you
to make
the crying baby sound along with me.
2.I
will place the tongue twister on the board. Andrew and Alice asked if
Annie's
active animals were angry. We will read the tongue twister as a whole
class
first. After that I will demonstrate how to stretch the /a/ sound while
using
my hand motion then the class will say it two more times with
stretching the
/a/. "AAAndrew aaand AAAlice aaasked if AAAnnie's aactive aaanimals
were
aaangry". "Fantastic Job Class!"
3.Each
student will get Elkonin boxes along with pre-selected alphabetic
letters for
the words we will be spelling. I will
model how to spell the word black. I will stretch out the sounds I hear
bbllaacckk. The first sound I hear is /bl/
so I will put
the letter bl in the first box
because it is a diagraph; therefore makes one sound. The next I hear
the crying
baby which is letter a. I will put
that letter in the second box. Now I have bbllaa, I hear the letter ck next; I will put that in my last box.
Let me say the word that is in my boxes to make sure it say black;
bblllaacckk.
YES! I have spelled the word black. Now let us see if you all can spell
me some
words that have the crying baby sound.
4.Begin
letterbox lesson. I will call out words while I walk around to assists
students. If a student has spelled the word wrong I will pronounce the
word
they have spelled, and see if they can fix it. As soon as I see that
all the
students spelled the word right I will move on to the next word on the
list.
Letterbox lesson words:
2 Phoneme: at, am, an
3 Phoneme: fan, cab, sad
4 Phoneme: stab, glad, black
5 Phoneme: crash
Once the students have spelled all the
words have
the words written on the board for them to read. First I will model how
to read
the word stab. st makes the /st/ sound, then a says /a/ like the crying
baby we
learned today, and b says /b/; therefore we have stab! Once we have
read all
the words take up the Letterbox Lesson materials.
5.Sam
the Ant, by
Eleanor McDavid (http://www.auburn.edu/academic/education/reading_genie/teacherbooks/SamtheAnt.ppt).
Sam and his family and friends live on an ant hill. They have to supply
different things like food to take back to the hill. Why do you think
ants have
to watch out for children, and what type of food would they bring back
to the
hill?
6.After
the students have read the book, have them come and get a piece of
paper and
write a message about their favorite thing to do outside.
Assessment:
While the students are writing have the
students
come up one at a time to pronounce some pseudo words. Let the students
know
that these are made up words. Give the student credit if they get the
/a/ corresponded
in the word. With these words I will be testing their learning of the
/a/
sound. List of words: RAF, LAN, NAM, DAT, BAP.
Reference:
McDavid,
Eleanor : Sam the Ant, received on March 9, 2008
http://www.auburn.edu/academic/education/reading_genie/teacherbooks/SamtheAnt.ppt
Murray,
Bruce: Hand Gestures for Phonemes
http://www.auburn.edu/academic/education/reading_genie/gestures.html
Murray,
Bruce: Wallach And Wallach's Tongue Twisters
http://www.auburn.edu/academic/education/reading_genie/twisters.html
Roberts,
Becky: Aaaaa! You Scared Me!
http://www.auburn.edu/academic/education/reading_genie/encounters/robertsbr.html
Simpson,
Angela: Yuck䴊It's Icky Sticky!
http://www.auburn.edu/academic/education/reading_genie/encounters/simpsonbr.html