Fun in the Sun!
Fun
in the Sun!
Beginning Reading
Goal: For students to learn the letter u as corresponds to the phoneme /u/, and be able to read words using this correspondence
Rationale:
For students to learn to read, they must first recognize each phoneme-letter correspondence. It is important that students learn vowel correspondences first. Learning letters and their phoneme correspondences will lead to successful decoding, reading fluency, and reading comprehension. For this lesson, students will learn to recognize the letter u and the phoneme correspondence u=/u/.
Materials:
-sound
correspondence picture (lifting a weight= uuuuuu) -You can get a
clipart from
Microsoft Word.
-decodable
book Sun Fun by phonics readers
-pencils
-primary
paper
-word
cards: fun, sun, run, tug bug, but,
-letterboxes
and letter manipulatives for students and teacher
1.Introduce
the lesson to students by explaining them to them that learning letters
and
their individual sounds are extremely important. I will introduce the
individual letter u and speak the corresponding sound.
2.
Show a
picture of a man lifting weights and explain that when we see the
letter u we
should make an "uuuuu" sound like we are lifting something heavy.
Lead the students in making the uuu sound and hand motion.
3.
Model
finding the /u/ sound in words. "When I say the word suuuuun, I can
hear
my weight-lifting sound, /u/."
4.
Give
the students examples of words that contain the /u/ sound, such as tut,
cut,
full, rut, mut, etc. Have them stretch out the words (tuuuuut) as they
repeat
after you.
5.
Model
writing the letter u as you say "start at the fence, curve at the
sidewalk, back to the fence, and down."
6.
Model
using the letterboxes to spell words using /u/.
7.
Guided
practice: Give the class words to spell with their letterboxes as you
walk
around and observe, then give sample words to read.
8.
Have
the students read the book Sun Fun and
have students raise their hands when they hear the /u/ sound.
9.
Assessment: Use word flashcards with /u/ words to see if each student
can read
the words.
Reference:
Millington,
Heather. "Sun Fun"
http://www.auburn.edu/academic/education/reading_genie/navig/millingtonbr.html