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  The Big GULP!

   Discovering the Letter G

  Emergent Literacy Design

            Kristen Hall

 

 

Rationale: In order to become successful readers and writers, students need to be able to identify letters and their corresponding sounds. In this lesson, students will learn g = /g/ through explicit instruction and engaging activities. Students will be able to recognize the upper and lower case G/g and will be able to identify g = /g/ in spoken words. By modeling, participating in a /g/ sound scavenger hunt, learning to write the letter G, and reading the book Bill Grogan’s Goat by Mary Ann Hoberman students will be able to further their knowledge in letter and sound recognition. Students will be assessed through a worksheet where they must identify pictures of items that say /g/ and glue items to a gift box.

 

Materials:

 

  • Primary paper.

 

  • Pencils.

 

  • Crayons.

 

  • Scissors.

 

  • Glue.

     

  • Bill Grogan’s Goat by Mary Ann Hoberman.

 

  • Flash cards with the words: GIVE, TAKE, STOP, GO, GRUB, WORM, GLUE, PASTE, BERRY, GRAPE.

 

  • In the Gift Box worksheet.

 

Procedure:

 

1. Say: To be good readers and writers we have to know what sounds all the letters make, and we have to know them very well. Today we are going to learn about the sound /g/. We spell /g/ with the letter G. Have you ever been really thirsty and gulped your drink very fast? Well that is the same sound our friend G makes!

 

2. Say: Let’s pretend we had to run all the way to school today because we missed the bus and we are super thirsty. Let’s gulp our water /g/, /g/, /g/. Notice the back of your tongue touched the roof of your mouth and you pushed air out to say /g/. Now put your hand on your throat and gulp. Can you feel your throat move up and down? That is how you say the letter G.

 

3. Say: Now I’m going to see if I feel like I’m gulping when I say the word gag. I’m going to sound it out slowly to see if I can hear it: Gggggg-aaaaaaaaaa-ggggggggg. I felt it! My tongue touched the roof of my mouth and I pushed air out. I feel the /g/ in gag.

 

4. Say: Now let’s try a tongue tickler. One day Mrs. Franklin’s class was working on an arts and crafts project when all of a sudden the students started yelling, “Gary gulps gallons of goopy glue!” And they had to rush Gary to the hospital to have his stomach pumped. Now you give it a try. Say “Gary gulps gallons of goopy glue.” Good! Now let’s break the /g/ sounds off the word: /G/ary  /g/ulps  /g/allons of /g/oopy  /g/lue.

 

5. Say: Now we are going to go on a scavenger hunt to find the /g/ sound in our classroom. [Break students up into pairs or groups of three. Assign each group a designated artist to draw the items they discover and a reporter (or two if in groups of three) to tell the class what they have discovered. Allow for this activity to take 10 to 15 minutes.]

 

6. Say: Okay let’s settle down and read Bill Grogan’s Goat. Bill Grogan has just finished washing his clothes when his goat decides he wants a snack. Gulp! That goat just ate his clothes right off the line! What do you think is going to happen? Let’s read it together and find out! [Read Bill Grogan’s Goat by Mary Ann Hoberman. Encourage students to read along once they pick up on rhyming pattern.]

 

7. Say: Now that we have practiced reading the letter G we are going to learn how to write it! [Pass out one or two sheets of primary paper for each student.] Okay let’s begin! I would write the letter G by first forming a big C. Then I would come back to the line to give him a tray to hold straight. Now I want you to try! [Talk the students through the process again and then have them write a whole row on their own.] Good job! Now let me show you how I write a lowercase g. First I would make the letter a. Then I would come down to the ditch and make a curve like basket. Now you try! [Repeat the process.]

 

8. Say: Let’s try to find /g/ sounds in these words. [Hold up flash cards with these words preprinted so students can practice letter recognition. Show GIVE and model how to decide if it’s give or take.] The G tells me to gulp my drink, /g/ so this word is gggggg-ive, give. Do you hear /g/ in stop or go? Grub or worm? Glue or paste? Berry or grape? Very good!

 

Assesment: Have students complete In the Gift Box work sheet individually.

 

Reference:

 

Hoberman, Mary Ann. Bill Grogan’s Goat. Little Brown Books for Young Readers: 2002. Print.

http://www.maryannhoberman.com/pages/books/billGrogansGoat2.html

 

Merritt, Annamarie. Gulping with the Letter G.

https://sites.google.com/site/msmerritts1stgradeclass/annamarie-merritt-reasearch-based-reading

 

Morgan, K. & J. E. Moore. Fun with the Alphabet. Evan-Moor Educational Publishers: 1997. 

66-75. Print.

 

 

 

      

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