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Ay I am from Canada

Beginning Reader

Olivia James

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Rationale:  This lesson teaching children the long vowel correspondence a_e = /A/. In order to be able to read, children must learn to recognize spellings that map word pronunciations. In this lesson children will learn to recognize, spell, and read words containing the spelling a_e = /A/. They will learn the meaningful representation (Canadian saying “aye”), they will spell and read words containing this spelling in a letterbox lesson, and read a decodable book that focuses on the correspondence 

a_e = /A/.

 

Materials: Image of a Canadian (Justin Bieber) saying “aye.” cover up critter. part of Justin Bieber’s music video Baby when he says “aye” a bunch of times. letterbox boxes. letter manipulatives. list of spelling words on a piece of paper. decodable book Jane and Babe. White board or smart board. Letterbox letters: g, a, c, r, e , b, m, n, l, s, p, k

 

Procedures: 

  1. Teacher says: To become a really good reader there is a lot that we have to learn. Reading is like a secret code that everyone learns so they can communicate with each other without talking. Earlier we learned the short vowel a=/a/ but not we are going to learn the long vowel a_e=/A/. I don’t know if you know this, but a lot of people from Canada say “Aye” when they are talking to each other, it’s their way of saying “Hello.” My favorite Canadian is Justin Bieber, here is his picture and a video of him saying “aye.” Now each time we look at his picture we can think “aye” [show picture and video]

  2. Teacher says: Before we learn how to spell words with /A/ in them, we have to realize what sounds they make. When I listen to /A/ I notice the way that my mouth moves. My mouth gets really big and my mouth kind of smiles. There is a long A in game. Now I am going to see if its in goat. Nope, I did not feel my mouth smile. Now, you try. If you hear /A/ say yes and show your peace sign and if you do not hear it say nope! Is it in lame, cat, mane, dale, sap? [have children show peace sign each time they hear /A/]

  3. Teacher says: Now let’s look at how to spell /A/. That is what we will learn today. One way to spell /A/ is the letter a with a single e at the end of the word. [Write a_e on the board] The blank line means there is a consonant after the a and before the e. The e is silent though. What if I want to spell the word game. “We win our baseball game every weekend.” Game means a sports game in this sentence. To spell game in these letterboxes, I have to count how many phonemes are in the word so I have to stretch it out. /g//A//m/. I need three boxes. I heard the /A/ just before m so I am going to put a in the second box and the e outside of the boxes. Now I am going to say it slowly so we can place the rest of the letters. (say is slow and place the letters)

  4. Teacher says: Now, I am going to have you spell some words on your own with my help. We will start out easy, I know you got this. The first word is Abe. That is the name of our 16th President. “Abe Lincoln was the president that loved to wear a top hat.” What should go in the first box? [respond to student] What goes in the second box? [respond to student]. Do you remember the silent e? Where does that go? [respond to student]. I am going to make sure that everyone is putting their letters in the right boxes [walk around classroom]. You will need three letterboxes for the next word. Remember to listen for the sounds that go in the right boxes. Make sure you listen for /A/. The word is mane. The lion at the zoo had a really big mane. [children spell word]. Let’s check to make sure everyone did their words right! [spell with the class on the board] Let’s try another word with three boxes. lame. I think it is lame that my school starts so early in the morning. (choose a student that has been doing well to come try a letterbox example on the board, repeat with each new word) Listen to see if this word has /A/ in it before we spell it. Sap. “I touched maple tree and now I have sticky sap all over my hand” Do you hear the /A/ sound? Did you need a silent e? Why not? Right, because we did not hear the /A/ sound. We spell it with the short a vowel. Now let’s try 4 phonemes. Grace. “Grace is the name of my little sister that drives me crazy.” Almost done! Let’s try a 5 phoneme word. scrape. I fell down and got a big scrape on my knee. Words: grace, abe, mane, lame, sap, scrape, crack

  5. Teacher says: Now I am going to let you read all of the words that you just spelled. But first we will practice reading a really hard word. (show the word scrape on the board) I notice there is a silent e on the end. You know what the means! The vowel says its name. What is the vowel? A thats right! I am going to use Glenda (my cover up critter) and we are going to practice reading this word. (uncover and blend in order) /s//c//r/=/sc/+/r/=/scr/. Now I am going to blend that with /A/=/scrA/. Now all that I need is /p/=/scrAp/. Scrape, that’s it. Now everyone try together! (have students take turns reading words to the class)

  6. Teacher says: You have all done such a good job during this lesson! We finally get to read and book and practice the sounds we have been working on. We are going to read Jane and Babe. This story is about a girl named Jane. She has an animal she  takes care of named Babe. Can you guess what it is? She loves to groom him and play with him. Let’s read to see the things that Jane does to take care of a big lion. Everyone get with your reading partner and take turns reading Jane and Babe and you can find out the different things that Jane and Babe do together. [children pair up and I walk around to help anyone that is stuck] 

  7. Teacher says: We had so much fun learning /A/ didn’t we? What did Jane and Babe do together? They cleaned and played! Just like we do with our pets. Before we finish this lesson I have to make sure that everyone is an expert reader. You need to read all of the things that you see on the worksheet and decide which words have the /A/ sound. Circle each word that has the long a sound. If you get stuck raise your hand and I can come help you. (collect worksheets and evaluate progress)

 

Resources: 

Assessment Worksheet: https://www.havefunteaching.com/resource/phonics/long-worksheet/

 

Murray, G. Oh, I Didn’t Know!:http://www.auburn.edu/academic/education/reading_genie/doorways/murraybr.htm

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Book Jane and Babe: https://auburn.instructure.com/files/134618726/download?download_frd=1 (copy and paste thsi link into your browser to view the pdf file)

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Other Lesson Plan That Could Help: http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/wordsandpictures/teachers/longv/lessons/lessae_c.shtml

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