Beginning
Title: /e/ Says the Old Door.
Rationale:
Recognizing
vowels
in spoken and written words can be challenging for children. It is
necessary
that children master this skill in order to be successful readers and
reach the
goal of reading words. In this lesson, children will receive a basic
understanding of the short vowel e=/e/ and the sound it makes and also
review
how to write this letter.
Materials:
Tongue
twister “: Edgar the Elephant lives in a
small cell with
a terrible smell” , paper, pencils, “Red Gets Fed” for each student,
Elkonnin
boxes and letters for every student and one for the overhead projector,
an
overhead projector, and the worksheet with two picture choices in which
the
children have to pick which one has the e=/e/ sound in it.
Procedures:
1. Start
by showing
the children a picture of the letter e on the overhead projector. Who
can tell
me what this letter is? Who can tell me what sound it makes? Very good!
I think
that this letter sounds like a squeaky door. Look at this picture (Of
an old
door opening) and imagine the sound it makes while opening. Model this
sound
for the children while stretching the e=/e/ sound out. Have the
children say it
after you.
2. Show
the children
the chart with the crazy tongue twister on it. Boys and Girls, I am
going to
say this sentence for you, and then I want y’all to follow along and
say it
with me the second time. (Stretch out the /e/ sound.) When we hear the
special
e sound, I want us to all look like we are opening an old door with our
hands.
Okay, is everybody ready to listen for the e=/e/ sound. Tongue
Twister: Edgar the Elephant lives in a
small cell with
a terrible smell.
3. Now I
am going to
see if y’all can hear the special e sound while I say it in some words.
I am
going to read you two words. One of them has our special sound and one
does
not. See if you can tell me which one has the special sound in it.
Words: Bed or Floor
Blue
or Red
Car
or Best
Head
or Hair
Now I
want y’all to
tell me a word and the class is going to listen to see if they can tell
if it
has the special e sound. Raise your hand if you think you have a word
with the
e=/e/ sound in it.
4. Boys
and Girls,
We are now going to use these Elkonin letter boxes to practice spelling
words
with the e=/e/ sound. Could everyone please have all of your letters on
the
lower case side. I have placed two boxes on the over head. This means
that our
mouths are only going to move two times to say this word. Here is the
first
word….. Bet
The
first box is for
the b and the second box is for the e
and the third is for the d. Now I want you to practice
with me.
Here are some other words. {3:
Red, pen, fell 4: vest, dress, help, rest,
sent}
5. I am
going to
show you some of the words that we spelled out in the boxes. I now want
to see
if you can read them to me. Model the first one. We are going to start
with the
/e/ sound. Then we are going to add the /r/ sound. Now we have /re/.
Finally let’s
add the /d/ sound. That spells red. I am going to put some other words
up here
one at a time and I want you to read them for me.
6. Have
the children
break up into groups to read “Red Gets Fed”. The students will take
turns
reading to each while I walk around and listen to them read. Watch each
child
in the room read a page and take anecdotal notes as they read. You may
have to
call some children up to read because this book is not very long and
you may
not get to every child.
7.
Finally, we are
going to write a message about our pet named red. I want you to make up
a
sentence about this imaginary pet.
Remember (model on overhead), this is how we write our /e/. They
can use
inventive spelling to write the words.
Assessment:
8.
Students will be
given a worksheet with pictures on it. They will circle the picture
that has
the e=/e/ sound. Next, they will write the word of the picture under it
to
practice writing the lowercase e.
Reference:
Murray,
B.A., and Lesniak, T. (1999) The Letterbox Lesson: A hands on approach
for
teaching decoding. The
Red Gets Fed,
“The
Door says /e/.” Emergent Literacy Designs: Misti Willoughby.
http://www.auburn.edu/~murraba/openings/willoughbyel.htm
“E’s are
E-E-E-Excellent.” Beginning
http://www.auburn.edu/%7Emurraba/begin/boggsbr.html
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