EEEEEEH--Shut that Creaky Door!
Beginning Reading
Rationale:
To learn to read children need to know that words are made up of
letters. Each
letter is represented by a phoneme, which is a sound followed with a
"vocal
gesture"
or the way your mouth moves. Every
phoneme has a spelling, a grapheme, with
it. I will give an example for the short e sound which is e =
/e/. This
is the phoneme
and grapheme we will be learning today. Students will learn how to
recognize
/e/ in spoken words by learning a meaningful name and they will
practice
finding words
with a /e/ vowel through reading books and in a word game.
Materials:
Primary paper and a pencil, a chart with the tongue twister, Everybody saw Eddie and the Eskimo enter
the elevator
on the elephant., a card labeled with e = /e/ for each child,
cards
with the words: bed, ball, bat, wet, cat, get, pet, net, egg, sat,
and pen
for each child, a book, Pen Pals, (AU,Carson, Educational
Insights,
1990 P.1-8) for each child, a worksheet divided in to squares with pictures with the words underneath that will
be missing the letter e: ball and net, bed and chair, apple and
egg, chicken
and cow.
Procedures:
1. I will introduce the lesson by explaining that writing is a secret
code and
that letters stand for our mouth moves we make as we say words. Today
we are
going to
learn the "vocal gesture" when we say /e/.
2. Ask students: Have you ever shut an old
door? What sound do you hear? The
door creaks. It makes the sound eeee! Can you hear the /e/ sound in
eeee? Good.
Now everyone repeat that sound. Great Job. This is the sound we're
looking for
today. I'll show you how to hear the /e/ sound in Ed. I will stretch
out the
word Ed.
Listen for the /e/ sound. E-e-e-ed. Did you hear it? Good. Now
you
stretch out the word. Great Job. You said the /e/ sound when a door
creaks.
3. I am going to read this tongue twister
on the chart. Everybody saw Eddie and
the Eskimo enter the elevator on the elephant.,
Let's say it all together. Good Job. Let's
say it one
more time, but this time stretch out /e/ in each of the words.
"E-e-e-verybody
saw E-e-e-edie and the E-e-e-eskimo e-e-nter the e-e-e-levator on the
e-e-e-elephan
Great Job. We will say
the tongue twister once more, but this time we will break off /e/ from
the
appropriate word: "/e/ verybody saw /e/ddie and the /e/skimo /e/nter
the
/e/levator on the /e/lephant.
Great Job Everyone!
4. Students, now I want you to take out
your primary paper and a pencil. When
we are learning the /e/, we can match the sound with a lowercase vowel
e.
We are
going to practice writing the letter e. On your paper we will
begin to
write together. Start your pencil just below the middle of the fence
where the
cow would hit his
head, make a straight line, curve up with your pencil to the middle of
the
fence where the cow hits his head, and come around as the shape of a
half
circle and touch
the grass bringing your pencil up a little above the grass to a point.
I am
coming around to look at your e. Once I put a check by it, I
want to
make a row of e's just
like that one. Practice saying what I
said when you write the letters. When you see this letter you should
recognize
/e/ sound that a creaky door makes.
5. Now we are going to play game. I am
going to pass out a card with the letter
e, which represents the sound of a creaky door. I am also going
to pass
out other
cards with various words. The cards will be face down. Before the game
begins,
I am going to pronounce these words and if you have any questions raise
your
hand.
I will model the pronunciation of the words. The first word is bed. I
will say
b /e/ d. Children listen for my "vocal gestures" as
I speak. Listen closely for the sounds
you hear. I will say all of these words. When the game begins, each
student
flips a card over. The students say the word. If they hear the /e/ in
the word
then take the
card out of the pile. Repeat this step through all the cards. All the
words
will not make a /e/ sound. If the words do not have a short e
then turn
them back over. The
words are bed, ball, bat, wet, cat, get, pet, net, egg, sat, and pen.
6. Today students you will read Pen
Pals. Read it once then we will talk
about the story. Then read it again and spot the words with /e/. After
everyone
is finished we
will write the words on the board.
7. For the assessment, I am going to pass
out a sheet divided into squares. In
each square there are two pictures. Under each picture there is a word
with a
missing
letter. What letter did we learn today? Good. The letter missing in the
word is
the letter e. Look at both pictures figure out what they are and say
their
names. In
whichever object you hear the /e/ sound then look at the word below it.
Fill in
the letter e wherever it is needed. Write the e the way I taught you
today. The
pictures
will be: ball and net, bed and chair, apple and egg, chicken and cow.
Wood, Jennifer. E-e-e-e, Shut that Creaky Door. http://www.auburn.edu/academic/education/reading_genie/discov/woodbr.html