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Beginning Reading  (BR) Design: 

Aaaa-Choo! 

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Rationale: Children will learn how to read, spell, and recognize words with the short vowel a = /a/. They will see a real-world example of the pronunciation by looking at a picture of a person sneezing and learn that the short vowel is pronounced as if someone said Aaaaa-choo! When sneezing. They will also learn to spell the words with a letterbox lesson as well as a worksheet and learn to read this short vowel with a decodable book that focuses on a = /a/.

 

Materials:

  1. A picture of someone sneezing

  2. Marker and whiteboard

  3. Magnetic s, l, a, p

  4. Letterboxes with the letters a, t, f, c, b, r, g, w, l, p, s, b

  5. Nat the Cat Booklet for each student

  6. Short a Worksheet for each student

 

Procedure:

  1. Say: We are all learning hw to be amazing readers in this class and one big step is to learn the code to reading. Today we will be learning about the short a sound. The short a, /a/, sounds a lot like if someone sneezes and says, “Aaaa-choo!” [Show picture of someone sneezing]. On the count of three let’s all say /a/ like a person sneezing. Ready? 1….2…..3 *all together we say* /a/!

  2. Say: Before we learn how to spell words with the short a, let’s see if we can hear them! I’m going to say some words, and if you hear the short a=/a/ then you need to pretend to sneeze. I’ll go first! Bat! *sneeze* Did you all see how the sneezing /a/ is in bat, so I pretended to sneeze? Let’s try another one. Plane! See, I didn’t hear the sneezing /a/ so I didn’t pretend to sneeze. Let me try one more on my own. Sat! *sneeze*. See the sneezing /a/ was in ssss /a/ tttt. Now let’s try some as a class! Dad, Pat, Clay, Mad? (go over those individually and wait to see if they make a sneeze face. Go over where the /a/ was if it was there, or why it was not there if it wasn’t).

  3. Say: Now let’s learn how to spell words with the aaaa-choo /a/. Let’s try to spell slap! Slap has four phonemes: /s/ /l/ /a/ /p/ so we will put four boxes on the board. And we know the /a/ is the third phoneme in slaaaap. So let’s put that in the third box! For the first box, we hear /s/ /s/ /s/. That’s an s, so let’s put te s in the first box! Now in slap we hear lllll. That’s an l, so let’s put an l in the second box. We already know our sneezing /a/ is next, so what’s after that in ssslllaaaaap? It’s p p p which is a p, so let’s put that on the board! Now let’s say the whole word sssllllaaaappp slap! Great job everyone!

  4. Say: Now it’s your turn to practice with your letterbox! The first word is at, like “I did work at school.” How many phonemes are in this word? *Class answers 2* Yes! So we will put two boxes and you all will put the letters in them. *observe* Great job! Our next word is fat. How many phonemes are in fat? *Have class answer 3* Yes! So we will put down three letterboxes and then everyone will put in your letters! *observe* *repeat this process with cat, brat, wag, flap, and scab*

  5. Say: You all did an awesome job! Now I will let you read the words you just spelled! *Write each word they just spelled on the board, one at a time, and write the next word once the class has said the written word all together*

  6. Say: Everyone did such a good job! Now we are going to read a book about Nat the Cat. Nat the Cat is thirsty, so she has some milk. She’s so happy to have milk that she drinks every last drop! But then, Nat the Cat is hungry and has nothing to eat! Will she find something to eat, or will she be sad forever? We’ll have to read to find out! *pass out booklets*

  7. Say: Once you have finished reading you will come to me to get a worksheet where you will put the correct word with the correct picture. *collect worksheets and see how each children did!*

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