Begining reading

Coby says eh??

By: Victoria Olney

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Rationale: In this lesson students will be exposed to the short vowel /e/. To teach a student to read they must first learn to recognize the sounds of the letters they are using in word pronunciations before spelling.

In this lesson students will be exposed to the modeling and practice of recognizing, spelling, and reading words containing the short vowel /e/.

Students will learn a visual sound analogy representation ( /e/ says Eh??). They will spell and read words containing this spelling in a letterbox lesson, and read a decodable book that focuses on the short vowel /e/.

Materials:

1. Graphic image of EH…….

2. Cover up critter

3. Individual student boxes for modeling

4. Letter manipulatives for each child

5. Magnetics for teacher : (E, E, G, G, N, C, K, J, P, T, B, S, W, L, L, D,Y, M)

6. /e/ sight words presented on a poster: smell, neck, jelly, penny, rent, dent, best, well, deck, yem.

7. Assessment worksheet : https://www.myteachingstation.com/vault/2599/web/articles/Short-Vowel-E-Worksheet.jpg

 

1. Book: The Best Nest by: P. D. Eastman

Procedures:

1. The ability to read lots of words is important so we can read all the stories that have been written down from all around the world. we must  know how to see the map of the pronunciation when looking at a word. We have learned the alphabet and are going to see how each letter is mapped into a word. E is a vowel it can have 2 sounds, it’s a transformer! Today we are going to learn the short sound /e/ says eh. The other sound is a long E so it’s only fitting for the short /e/ sound to go first!

 

1. Before we can learn to write our own stories with /e/ words we must be able to hear them in the words we can say. Our tongue is flat on the floor of our mouth. Before air comes out of your mouth you spread your mouth wide close to a smile. Sometimes people use this short /e/ sound to ask a question, (make vocal gesture for eh) show the graphic of the old man listening for an answer to his question eh? Let’s listen for the /e/ says eh sound in some words. When I listen for /e/ in words I hear the eh sound and my mouth breaks open into a smile. There is a short /e/ in egg did you see my face smile in the beginning when I said egg? What about map? No /e/. When you hear the eh sound hold your hand up to your ear and say eh. If you don’t hear /e/ say eh say no ma’am. Is it in, bin, nest, when, set, check, teal, bend?

 

 

1. I want to try to spell the word smell. “the flowers smell nice.” To spell smell I will first need to get out my letter boxes and decide how many phonemes are in the word so I will stretch it out and count, /s//m//e//l/, Did you all guess I needed 4 letter boxes for each separate sound or phoneme in the word smell? I hear our eh sound right in the middle, I can feel my face smile after sm. So I’m going to put the Ss- in the 1st box and the Mm- in the second box. S-m-e- there’s the smile so I was right the /e/ goes after sm. What’s left? The ll sound, hm, there’s only one box at the end, must be because the 2 l’s make the same sound and they’re right beside each other. So I will put two L’s in the 4th letter box.

Now I want to show you how to read a tough word, Content. (display the word in large print) I am going to start with /e/ okay then I will add the smallest chunk e-n-t, ent with

 c-o-n-t/ ent. Cont/ent. “the table of contents is helpful.”

 

1. I want everyone to be excited about their letterboxes! We are LEARNING to break these words apart so we can know how to use the parts in all sorts of words. Think of them as Legos, Someone can build a tower (or a word) and make you wonder how many parts it took and how they came up with it!! BUT, if you break it down one Lego ( or phoneme) at a time, and understand how they all fit together, you can build anything!!!!

 

So let’s practice some letterbox lessons at our desks, where you practice and I will parade around helping if needed. The first word is simple and only needs 2 letterboxes, egg. “The egg cracked. egg” (Observe progress) okay, next we will need three letter boxes for  pet, “I like to pet animals. pet”

Tell children remaining words with sentences, neck, jelly, penny, rent, dent, best, well, deck and the pseudoword yem.

Afterward, let students read these words they’ve been practicing all together. Perhaps, continue practice by calling on each child to read one word to the class.

 

                                                             

 

 

1. You students have done a wonderful job reading the words of our new spelling! eh? (make hand gesture to ear) Now we are going to read a book called The Best Nest, it’s kind of like a Dr. Seuss book but it is by P. D. Eastman. This is a story of a family of birds who cannot agree on the right nest. There a lots of funny places these birds try to put their nests! Let’s partner up and take turns reading The Best Nest to one another. (observe progress) After paired reading, read the book aloud chorally, and stop at each page to talk together about the pictures.

 

1. Last but not least, we will all stand next to our desks and shoot paper balls into the trash can when we hear the short e sound EH? coby needs to hear you from across the court, EH?

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Resources

Websites:

 http://wp.auburn.edu/rdggenie/

http://www.teach-nology.com/lessons/lsn_pln_view_lessons.php?action=view&cat_id=3&lsn_id=8901

Book:

 https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/160988.The_Best_Nest

Short /e/ worksheet:

 https://www.myteachingstation.com/vault/2599/web/articles/Short-Vowel-E-Worksheet.jpg

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Thanks for reading!