The goal of these reading lessons is to help is to help students develop a stronger independency in their reading. It can be a little difficult to teach students how to read, so we have developed a few designs to make it a little easier. These lessons include: Emergent Literacy, Beginning Reading, Growing Independency and Fluency and Reading to Learn. Emergent Literacy is helping children identify phonemes while Beginning Reading teaches children a little more challenging phoneme examples. Growing Independence and Fluency covers useful methods to help children read with fluency and comprehension while Reading to Learn helps children in reading at a higher level with new vocabulary and dissecting texts. I hope you find these lessons to be a helpful resource!
Emergent Literacy
H for Hot, hot, hot!
Emergent Literacy Design
By: Rachel Paradise
Rationale: This lesson plan will help students recognize /h/ the phoneme represented by H. Students will learn to recognize the phoneme /h/ by practicing a meaningful representation such as, making the “h” sound when you eat something that is too hot and you are trying to cool it off in your mouth. Further, students will practice finding the phoneme /h/ in words, especially those in the prefix of words to start. Applying phoneme awareness can also aid the student in learning /h/ in phonetic cue reading.
Materials:
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Pencil and Paper
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Tongue Tickler - Harry the hungry, hungry hippo is happily eating ham in his house
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Horton Hatches the Egg, By Dr. Seuss
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Crayons
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Word cards: HOT, HOP, HIT, HELP
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Assessment worksheet with pictures of objects that contain /h/
Procedures:
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Begin by saying that our alphabet has many letters and our language can make very interesting sounds! Sometimes, it can be difficult to understand what type of sound a letter makes. So, I broke it down for you, and we are going to begin with the letter H. We are gonna recognize the way that our mouth looks and feels when we pronounce the letter “H”. We can pronounce /h/ by the sound our mouth makes when we take a bite of something too hot.
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Say: When we bite into something that is too hot, our mouths say /h/, /h, /h/ to try and cool off the hot food. We also say something like “wow, that was really hot” using /h/ in “hot” to warn everyone that the food is too hot to eat. So, you try. Say you took a really big slurp of hot soup, and it starts to burn your tongue! What are you going to do to cool down the soup in your mouth without spitting it out?
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Say: Now I am going to help you find the /h/ in the word “HIT”. So, I am going to say it very slowly and let's see if you can see where the /h/ is. Hhhiitt, (now even slower) hhhhhhhiitttt. Did the beginning of that word sound like what you do when you are trying to cool down your hot soup?
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Say; Now we are going to try a tongue tickler! Now these words are going to be a little tricky to say all together but that is what makes it fun! Now repeat after me, “Harry the hungry, hungry hippo is happily eating ham in his house”. Great, now let's try again and stretch out the /h/ sound in each of the words. “Hhhhhharry the hhhhuungry, hhhhhungry hhhhhhippo is hhhhhappily eating hhhham in hhhis hhhhouse.” Great, now let’s try again and this time we are going to take the /h/ off of each word. /H/arry the /h/ungry, /h/ungry /h/ippo is /h/appily eating /h/am in /h/is /h/ouse.
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Say: Now we are going to take out our pencil and paper. We can write /h/ using the letter H. The letter H looks like a sideways bridge in a way. But, today we are going to write a lowercase h. First we are going to start at the rooftop and draw a straight line to the sidewalk. Then go to the fence line and make a little hump like an n from the line down to the sidewalk.
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Say: Now I am going to say a few different words and you are going to tell me which one you hear our /h/ in. Do you hear /h/ in hot or pot? Do you hear /h/ in mit or hit? Do you hear /h/ in help or yelp. Do you hear /h/ in may or hay? Now wave your hand in front of your mouth like youre are cooling something off when I say /h/ in a word. Are you ready? Hurt, Hop, Tank, Ham, Grape, Hippo, Home
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Say: Who is ready to do some reading? (Bring out book, crayons and more paper) We are going to read Horton Hatches the Egg, By Dr. Seuss. Has anyone ever read a book by D. Seuss. He is one of my favorites. In this book, Maisy, a lazy bird does not want to lay her eggs, she would rather go off and have some fun! Can you think of any places that Maisy could go that have the /h/ sound in their name? Now, can you draw a picture of this place? And now, write a sentence about what you may be able to do at this place? I will ask them if they want to continue drawing their scene and maybe adding another sentence to their work once the book is finished.
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To conclude this lesson, we will play a game of “Simon Says”. I will say Simon says “Help” and the students will sit down on the floor. But, if Simon says “Tree” and a student sits down, they are out of the game. After finishing up the game, and burning some energy, the students will be handed the assessment worksheet where they can color everything that contains /h/.
References:
Z Zips up the Alphabet! (Samantha O'Neil)- https://slo0013.wixsite.com/readingdesigns/emergent-literacy
Assessment Worksheet:
https://twistynoodle.com/circle-the-words-that-begin-with-h-worksheet/
Book:
https://www.amazon.com/Horton-Hatches-Egg-Classic-Seuss-ebook/dp/B00ESF28SK#ace-g9766277718
