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“Uhhh” Come again?

Rationale: This lesson helps students identify /u/ the phoneme represented by U. This is done through teaching students using the sound you make when you are confused and scratching your head “uhhhhh”.  This will be done through a standard Letter Box Lesson, this means students will be taught how to spell words with the u=/u/ sound and then later will be asked to read them back after all have been spelled in order to create decoding and blending skills.

 

Materials:

1) 3in x 3in card stock sheets,

2) scrabble tiles,

3)  /u/ sounds book (Lad and his Pals by Geri and Bruce Murray)

 

Procedures:

1. Say: Today we’re learning how to say the letter U’s sound. You make this sound by opening your mouth, relaxing your tongue and saying uhhh. Its like when your confused and have no idea what to say so you drag out uhhhh to fill space, you often are scratching your head while doing it. Let’s practice! (show them how)

 

 

2 . Model:  Use only regular, one-syllable example words, without consecutive rhymes, and include review words with earlier short vowels, words with digraphs, words with consonant clusters, and at least one 4-phoneme word. Show the number of phonemes for each word (i.e., the number of letterboxes). Model how to do letter boxes with an easy word and a difficult word (up, and plump) Each box is a phoneme sound correspondence and show how to place scrabble tiles for each sound on each box and then read the correctly spelled word out. Have students work in groups to figure out words: On and tap (easier words that they already know how to spell) and then move on to: Rub, cup, hug, bud, pun, duck, plus, plum.

Finally, make a large print copy of the lesson words for the students to read aloud as a whole group, including at least one untaught word or pseudoword. (Lup)

 

Intro duce future books using “Book talks” that grab students attention about the stories and get them excited to read. Ex for Chips for Chicks) Jess and Ben have baby chicks that hatch and while they are all eating Lad, the dog, comes up and starts smelling the chips the kids are eating. Lad steals the chips, but you have to find out what happens and if the kids get their chips back!

Have groups read /u/ books in groups, each student read a page of “Chips for Chicks” and  “A Bump in the Mud” from Lad and His Pals by Geri and Bruce Murray. While small groups are doing this, have individual students come up to your work area and either read some /u/ sound words or spell out some using the letter boxes. This can be individual or small group based on skill depending on time.

 

Reference:

Murray, B. A., Murray, G., & Choudhary, S. (2019). "A Bump in the Mud" and "Chips for Chicks". In Lad and his pals / by Bruce and Geri Murray ; illustrated by Sandeep Choudhary (pp. 121–146). essay, Geniebooks.

 

http://wp.auburn.edu/rdggenie/home/lessons/letbox/

 

https://www.amazon.com/Bruce-A.-Murray/e/B07VH5LHWG

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