The Creaky Door
Rationale: To learn to read and
spell children need to know that letters stand for phonemes. Before children
can match letters to phonemes, they have to be able to recognize phonemes.
This lesson will teach children to recognize /e/ in words.
Materials: primary paper, pencil, chart with ãTed fed his dog Fred who was sitting on the bed.ä class set of cards with e and picture of a door, Red Gets Fed (Educational Insights), Picture page for every student with: bed, chair, men, girl, ball, vest, book, jet, car, fence
Procedures:
1.Introduce the lesson by explaining that
we are going to crack the secret code of the alphabet. To do this
we have to learn the mouth moves for each letter. Today we are going work
on the mouth move /e/. Letâs see if we can spot /e/ in some words.
2.Ask students ãHave you ever heard
a door creak? That /e/ sound is the mouth move the short e makes. Letâs
all pretend we are opening a creaky door.ä
3.Now we are going to try saying a tongue
twister ãTed fed his dog Fred who was sitting on the bed.ä
Look at the chart and lets say it together 3 times.
4.Now we are going to practice the letter
e. We can use the letter e to make the /e/ sound. To make an e we start
at half way between the fence and the sidewalk. Make a straight line then
curve up to the fence around, touch the ground and up. Everyone try making
one. When I walk around the room show me your e. I want you to make 10
eâs just like mine.
5.Now I am going to pass out a card to everyone.
The card has the letter e with a picture of a door. I am going to say some
words if you hear the /e/ sound raise your card; red, blue, end, Ed, Steve,
over, fled, car, ten, cat.
6.Read the story Red Gets Fed and talk about
it. Read it a second time and have students hold up their cards when they
hear the /e/ sound.
7. For assessment, passes out a picture
page and help students name the pictures. Have students circle pictures
with /e/ sound in them.
References:
Reference: Eldredge, J. L. (1995).
Teaching Decoding in Holistic Classrooms. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, Inc.,
19.