Emergent literacy design: /Qu/ = /kw/
Quickly Quiver in the cold
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Rationale: In this lesson students will be exposed to the /kw/ sound by learning the “sound analogy” of “quick quiver in the cold” as well as, the symbol for this sound /kw/. Students will experiment with identifying the /kw/ in words and applying phoneme awareness of the sound /kw/ in phonetic cue readings of distinguishable rhyming words from beginning letters.
Materials:
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Chart with tongue tickler “Quilts quickly warm the quivers”
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Primary paper: one piece per student
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magnifying glass
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Pencils
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Crayons
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Word cards with: QUACK, QUEEN, QUIT, QUAKE
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Assessment worksheet : https://i.pinimg.com/originals/c0/37/7e/c0377e0cbd340e3f30fe562841b093f6.jpg
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Book: the cat quizzer by dr. Seuss??
Procedures:
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Say “our written language is a secret code: IT CAN BE TRICKY because we may not know what letters stand for. Today we are going to work on spotting the mouth move /kw/ we spell the sound /kw/ with the letters q and u. The Qu looks like a duck dipping its beak in the water. What does a duck say? Quack!
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Lets pretend we are a duck and lets say Qu-a-ck really slowly so we can find the Qu- where is it? Do you think it’s in the beginning? Yes, Qu- Qu-a-ck. So lets see what our mouth is doing when we say /kw/. When we say Qu our lips our pursed like a Queens and our tongue is flat on the floor of our mouth. Once air comes out of your mouth you spread your pursed lips into a smile, also like the Queen!
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Let me show you how to find /kw/ in a word cloud. I am going to stretch “Quit” in super slow motion and listen for the Qu sound… Qu…i…t… I could feel my mouth making the Qu sound, my lips pursed and then smiled like a queen but never touched!
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Let’s try a tongue tickler that is on this poster. The Queen called for a Quilt to Quickly Quit her Quivering on the cold night. Our tongue tickler is “A quilt to quickly quit the quivers”. Lets say it together! Now stretch the /qu/ at the beginning of every word “A qqquuuilt to qqquuuuickly qqquuuit the qqquuuivers” Now we are going to break the Qu of the tongue tickling words, like this “ A qu-ilt to qu-ickly qu-it the qu-ivers”
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Pass the primary paper and pencil to the students. Say “We use QU to spell /Qu/ lets start by writing the lowercase /qu/ first. Start by drawing a ducks head (circle) then his beak (slightly curved line) that’s the q part the U part is the ducks feather balancing himself in the water. I would like to see everyone experiment with drawing the qu around five or so times. I will come around and draw a star eyed smiley face when you are done.
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I am going to say two words to you and I want you to tell me which one you hear /kw/ in. Do you hear /qu/ in quail or plane? quiz or sail? Live or quake? Pretend like you are quivering cold with your hand gestures as you say words with /Qu/ like Quote, quiet, quest.
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We are going to read the ABC book by Dr. Seuss Dr. Seuss turns the alphabet from fifty-two shapes and twenty-six sounds one has to memorize into an exercise in rhymery and wordplay. Uppercase and lowercase letters are taken for a spirited airing, matched with an apt selection of fun words, all set in the suitably absurd world of Seuss characters and creatures.
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I’m gonna show the /Kw/ sound I will pass out the work after they color the pictiures that have the /kw/
Bridgett Davis. Turning Helicopter Blades with W
https://bpc009.wixsite.com/readingdesigns/emergent-literacy
Letter Q worksheet: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/c0/37/7e/c0377e0cbd340e3f30fe562841b093f6.jpg
