Pink Packs up the Path
By: Katie Sullivan
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Rationale: Reading is truly the foundation of all future learning. If a student cannot read, he or she will struggle their whole lives. To learn to read, phoneme awareness has to be developed. This lesson will help students learn the phoneme /p/. This is identified by the letter P. A visual representation of a pink pack (backpack) on a hiking path will aid in remembering the phoneme /p/. Identifying the phoneme /p/ in words and stories will also allow students to learn P. This phoneme awareness will be so important for the child’s understanding of words and sounds.
Materials:
1. Primary paper
2. pencil
3. pink pack
4. tongue twister printed out
5. Book: Pen Pals
6. Note cards: PINK, PIT, POKE, PET, SUN, STOP.
7. P worksheet, pompoms, and glue.
8. Assessment worksheet and crayons.
Procedures:
1. Say: All of the letters you see in words represent sounds. Today, we are going to learn about the sound /p/. This is represented by the letter P. P is the first letter of pink and pack. See our pink pack?
2. Let’s say the word pink. pppink. When we say /p/, our mouth closes and we release lots of air at once to make the /p/ sound.
3. Lets try a tongue twister to help us learn about the /p/ sound. “Polly took her pink pack up the path to play princess party.” Let’s say it three times! Now say it again, and slow it down. “Pppolly took her pppink pppack up the pppath to ppplay ppprincess ppparty.” Let’s do it one more time and put a space in the word after the /p/ sound. “/p/olly took her /p/ink /p/ack up the /p/ath to /p/lay /p/rincess /p/arty.”
4. I have some paper and a pencil for you. We use P to spell /p/. Let’s try to draw the letter P. Start at the fence and draw a line down to the ditch. Then draw a backwards c. Let’s draw 5 more Ps.
5. I am going to say 2 words, and you tell me which word has the /p/ sound. Mop or slay. Make or shop. Tab or tap. Mad or hip. Up or down. Raise your hand when you hear the /p/, pretty pink feathers pile up on the grass.
6. Let’s read a cute book about a baby named Ben. He has a pen and a pet. He wants to hang out with his pet but they have a problem. Let’s see what the problem is and how it is solved.
7. Show PEN and show how to determine if it is Den or Pen. The p is the same as in pink, so this is pppen. Let’s try some more. PIT: fit or pit? POKE: poke or stroke? PET: pet or bet? SUN: pun or sun? STOP: stop or top?
8. Lets do a craft to show we know the letter P and its sound, /p/. I have a worksheet with a big letter P. Glue the pompoms to create a pretty letter. Then, take a pencil and around the big letter, write words that start with the letter P and sound /p/.
9. Assessment: give out worksheet with pictures. Have the student circle and color the words that have the /p/ sound. Call students to the back table to go over not cards and distinguish the /p/ sound.
References:
Guide Lesson: https://szb0094.wixsite.com/lessondesigns2017/emergent-literacy
Worksheet:
Decodable book:
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