The Tree Is Growing Taller
Emergent Literacy
Rationale-
Before young children can learn to read and
spell
words, they must learn to recognize letters and the sounds or phonemes
that
those letters represent. Some letters are easily recognized,
while others
are more difficult due to their similarities with other letters.
Two such
letters that cause students constant confusion are the letters b
and d.
This lesson will help children recognize letter b and also to
differentiate from other letters such as letter d. Once
students
can recognize the letter, then they will be introduced to the phoneme
that b
represents.
Materials-
-
a poster
cut out of a
tree with Velcro strips on it
-
apples
with words on
them and Velcro strips on the back
-
words:
tree, tip, to,
ten, try, tap, tell, talk, set, map, bat, get, hen, hat, jet, pan, cap
-
dry
erase board and
marker
-
primary
paper and
pencils fro each student
-
picture
paper for
assessment with a tree, tin, top, turtle, frog, saw, bubble, violin
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book: ABC's
By:
Dr. Seuss
Procedure
1. Introduce the
lesson:
"Today we are going to be learning about the letter T and the
sound
that it makes. We need to know about this letter because we use it to
write
different words and read lots of books. We are going to be learning how
to
write this letter too!"
2.
Hold up the letter T and ask the children, "What letter is this?
Right! This is the letter T. Does anyone know what sound it
makes? It
makes the /t/ sound, like in the words, 'trick and time.'"
3.
Practice writing the letters, both uppercase and lowercase with
the
children on chart paper. "Now, that we know what the letter T
looks
like and what sound it makes, we are going to practice writing it.
Everyone get
a pencil and the paper that I gave you. To make a big T, or
uppercase,
we will make a straight line at the top like this, and a line going
down from
the center of the other line. Now you try. To make the small T
or the
lowercase T, we will make another straight line going down, but
this
time we will cross it at the fence instead of at the top. I want you
all to
practice writing both of these letters and I’ll come around to see
them."
4.Next, use the picture cards. Pass
out all of the cards to all of the students.
Each students will stand up and say their word.
Then as a class we will decide if the word
begins with a T or not. If
the word does begin with a T the student will put the
word card on
the tree. If the word does not begin
with a T the student will not put the
card on the tree
5. For the assessment, give
the children a picture sheet and have them write the letter
t on
the pictures that begin with that sound.
References
Marilyn Jager
Adams (1990). Beginning to Read: Thinking
and Learning About
Print, A
Summary by Steven A. Stahl, Jean Osborn, and Fran Lehr.
Christie Shelton: http://www.auburn.edu/rdggenie/insp/sheltonel.html