Lydia Hunt
PETER POPS CORN
Rationale: This lesson will help children identify /p/, the phoneme represented by P. I will use meaningful representations to help the students recognize /p/ in spoken words such as Peter pops corn and the letter P having a circle in it and popcorn is a circle. This will bring phoneme awareness with /p/ to use in phonetic cue reading by distinguishing rhyming words from beginning letters.
Materials: Primary paper, pencil; chart with “Peter pops corn proudly”. Coloring page with words ending in P. Princess Pigtoria and the Pea by Pamela Duncan Edwards.
Procedures:
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Talk with the student about how letter of the alphabet is special, different, and needed. Tell them to day you will be learning about the letter P which makes the /p/ sound. Tell them /p/ sounds like popcorn popping. We will focus on the way our mouth moves when we say /p/.
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Ask them if they ever make popcorn at home. Get them to manipulate the sound it makes when it starts popping. Tell them to notice how their lips purse when they make the /p/ noise.
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Show the student the tongue twister “Peter piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.” Try to say it on your own. How many times do you hear /p/? Say pepper, now slow it down /p/e /p/ /p/ er.
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Let’s get out our primary paper and start practicing. Let’s make a lower-case p first. Start with a straight line down then come back up and make a curve starting from the top to the halfway point. Now let’s try an upper-case P. Do the same thing but a little bit larger this time. Reward good effort with a sticker.
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Time to assess the child. Give them some words and ask which word has the /p/ sound. I am going to say some words and if you hear /p/ raise your hand. Hop? Kick? Jump? Start? Pump? Snake? Top? Drop? Pony?
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Read This book will have a lot of words with the /p/ sound. First, I’m going to read the book and you will simply listen. The second time I read through it you will raise your hand again when you hear the /p/ sound.
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For assessment I will distribute a coloring sheet that includes coloring the objects that start with P. I will also have students come up one at a time to read a few pages of .
References:
http://www.auburn.edu/academic/education/reading_genie/adventures/mathewsel.htm
Edwards, Pamela Duncan. Princess Pigtoria and the Pea. Orchard Books, 2010.
