Emergent Literacy | Haley Kantor's Lesson Designs

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Rationale: In this lesson, emergent readers will be introduced to the phoneme /g/ represented by g. In order to successfully begin reading, young children must be able to identify letters and the phonemes they represent with ease. The students will be instructed on how to recognize /g/ in spoken words by learning a meaningful representation of the sound (gulping water) and the letter symbol G and g. The student will also practice hearing /g/ in words, use a tongue tickler, and apply phoneme awareness with /g/ in phonetic cue reading by distinguishing rhyming words from beginning letters.

Materials:

Primary paper
Mechanical pencils
Flashcard with G and g
Plastic Cup for teacher and student to imitate phoneme
poster with “Gary was glad to play games in grandmother's green garden. ” written on it
poster with “Gabe got the group to go to the grocery store.” written on it
"Get the Gag" by Cheryl Ryan
“Circle words starting with G” worksheet

Procedures:

Decoding and reading words is something special that we get to learn when we come to school. We get to discover what each letter in the alphabet stands for and the moves we make with our mouths to correctly say each sound. All letters have a unique sound, and we must know these letters and their sounds in order to read and write. Today we are going to learn about the letter g and its sound /g/. The /g/ sound can either be at the beginning, middle, or end of a word!
Lets think about the sound the letter g makes. I’m going to pretend this cup right here is filled with my most favorite drink!! I don’t want you to say it aloud but think about what you would fill your cup with. I have Orange juice in here and I’m reeeally thirsty so I am going to drink fast; here it goes guh, guh, guh gulp YUM that was so good. Everyone pretend to gulp your drinks and say guh, guh, guh gulp. This is what I think of that helps me remember what the letter g sounds like. When we say /g/, we push the back of our tongue to the back of our mouth and push it off like guh, guh, guh.
Now we are going to say two fun tongue ticklers to practice hearing /g/! I will say it first, and then you can repeat three times it after I finish. [printed on paper] “Gary was glad to play games in grandmother's green garden.” Now it is your turn [Let them repeat the tongue tickler 3 times] Could you hear the /g/ sound like someone was gulping when you said that? Gggggary was gggglad to play ggggggames in ggggggrandmother's ggggggreen gggggarden.” I can feel the back of my tongue touching the roof of my mouth with each of those G words. [next paper] Here we have another tongue tickler which I will say first then you will repeat three times. Gabe got the group to go to the grocery store. Now it is your turn [Let them repeat the tongue tickler 3 times] Could you hear the /g/ sound like someone was gulping when you said that? Gggggabe ggggot the ggggroup to gggggo to the ggggrocery store.”
Now that we know how to identify the sound /g/ let’s take a look at how to write an uppercase and lowercase g. You can take out their primary paper and pencils and I am going to show you how to write the uppercase G and then we will move on to the lowercase g. For the uppercase G: we are going to start in between the fence and rooftop to form a big C. Then come back up to the fence to give him a tray to hold straight. And finally put it all together. For the lowercase g: we are going to first make a lowercase a by starting under the fence, go up and touch the fence, then around and touch the sidewalk, around and straight down. And gee, that’s a good idea. If the ball falls, it falls into the basket. Great, now I want you to practice writing each letter ten more times on your paper.” (Walk around and make sure everyone is writing their letters.)
I want to see if you can hear /g/ in words I pronounce. The g g g gulping G may be at the beginning of the word or it can be in the middle or the end! I’m going to say two words and I want you to repeat the word that you hear /g/ in and we are going to also do our gulping motion with our cup each time we hear it. Let’s practice: do you hear /g/ in boy or girl? Awesome in girl- now let me see everyone doing our gulping motion with our cups! Fence or gate? Log or tree? Coat or goat? Poster or flag? Horse or pig? Grip or drip?
Next we are going to read a fun book called “Get the Gag” Get the Gag is story about a boy name Sam who wants to buy his friends a gift to make them happy but it doesn’t seem to be working. Sam buys them some pretty silly gifts like a stuffed rat! I want you to think about a time you received a gift and it did not make you happy. Lets read “Get the Gag” and see what happens with Sam, his friends, and his silly gifts! [read “Get the Gag”]
For assessment, I will give students the “Circle words starting with G” worksheet with pictures that may or may not have the /g/ sound and have them only circle the words that do have the /g/ sound in them.