Tick
Tock T
Emergent Literacy Design
Rational:
In this lesson, students will learn the phoneme
/t/ that is represented by T. Letter recognition is an important skill to know
for reading. This will help students with recognize the letter t with the phoneme
/t/. Students will learn about words with t at the beginning. Students
will learn to associate the t sound with a ticking clock and use a
clock hand gesture to help them remember the sound. During the lesson, students
will work on writing the letter symbols T and t and finding the phoneme in
words.
Materials:
Pencil
Primary Paper
Tongue Twister written on a
poster
Circle 10 Words that Start
with T Worksheet
Crayons
Word Cards: light, bat,
ball, at, cab, now, later, tip, ship
The Adventures of Taxi Dog
Picture of a clock
Procedures:
1. Today we are going to learn the mouth
movements of the phoneme /t/. The phoneme /t/ is spelled with the letter T. The
letter T looks like a hand of a clock. It also makes the sound of the ticking
hands every second.
This will help students link the phoneme
/t/ to the letter t, so they can become better readers.
2. Now let’s pretend that our finger is a hand
on the clock, /t/ /t/ /t/. (Show a
picture of a clock and point out the hands.)
Can you try making the sound? Your tongue
touches the roof of your mouth and then comes down making the
/t/
sound.
3. Now let’s practice find the phoneme /t/. I am
going to say a word and listen for the /t/ sound when I stretch it out. Remember
to listen for the clock hand sound because that will help. Lll-iigghhtt. I heard
it at the end. Did you hear it? I felt my tongue touch the roof of my mouth at
the end. You try saying the word and see if you can feel your tongue.
4. Show the students a
tongue twister that is written on a board.
Now let's say it together. Tommy
Tricked Tim and Took his Train. This time let's say it and stretch out each word.
Let's say it again this time separating
the t from the rest of the word. T-ommy T-ricked T-im and T-ook his
T-rain. Lets say it a few more times.
5. Now I am going to say two words. When you
hear the phoneme /t/ move your finger like the clock. I will then call on
someone to tell us which word they moved their finger on and why. Do you hear
/t/ in bat or ball? At or cab? Now or later? Tip or Ship?
We will look at the words and practice sounding out the word and listening for
the /t/ sound.
6. Next pass out primary
paper to each student.
We are going to practice writing the /t/
sound using the letter T. First we are going to write a capital T. Watch me
write it and then you are going to copy me and write the capital T five times.
Start at the rooftop and go down to the sidewalk. Then draw a horizontal line on
the top. Draw a practice capital T, and once I have seen it start writing your
five capital Ts. (After they are all done then you can move on.)
Next we are going to practice writing the
lower case t. Watch me first before you start work on yours. Start a little
above the fence and make a vertical line down to the sidewalk. Then make a line
going across the line you just drew on the fence. Now try writing one. Let me
check your one before you move on to writing five lower case ts.
7. Now we are going to read a book called The
Adventures of Taxi Dog. This book is about a dog that lived in a city and is very
lonely. One day a man finds the dog and asks the dog to go with him The dog is
very nervous about what is going to happen to him. We are going to have to read
to find out what happens to the dog. While I am reading, listen for the /t/
sound and do your finger like a clock hand when you hear it.
8. For assessment, I will
give the students a worksheet where they circle and color the pictures that have
the phoneme /t/ in them. We will then practice writing the words of some of the
pictures they circled. Students will also come over to my table and practice
reading words that start with T and have the phoneme /t/ in them. I will be
marking which words they can and can not read.
Reference:
Erin Hale, Tick Away Time
the Time with T,
http://www.auburn.edu/academic/education/reading_genie/solutions/haleel.htm.
Circle 10 Words that Start
With T,
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/alphabet/circlewordsthatstartwith/t.stml.
Debra and Sale Barracca,
The Adventures of Taxi Dog. Penguin Group, 2000.