Rationale: This lesson will help children identify /t/, the phoneme represented by T. Students will learn to recognize /t/ in spoken words by learning a meaningful representation and the letter symbol T. Students will practice finding /t/ in words, and apply phoneme awareness with /t/ in phonetic cue reading by distinguishing rhyming words from beginning letters.
Materials:
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Primary paper and pencil;
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Tongue Tickler Chart: “Tina took her toy tiara to Tracey’s treehouse.”
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Assessment worksheet identifying pictures with /t/ (See link below)
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Word cards with Tip, Top, Test, Sit, and Tack.
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Book: “Toby the Tiger"; Joe Slade
Procedures:
1. Say: “Our written language is a secret code. The tricky part is learning what letters stand for—the mouth moves we make as we say words. Today, we are going to be spotting the movement of our mouth when we say /t/. We spell /t/ with the letter T. The sound for /t/ sounds like a sprinkler watering the lawn.”
2. Say: “Everyone try moving your arms like a sprinkler with me!” Model with them for a second and then stop, so the students also know to stop.
3. Say: “Good Job! Now lets practice saying /t/.” Then practice saying /t/ a couple times along with the class. “When you say /t/ you push your tongue up to the top of your mouth behind your teeth and block the air. Then, you quickly release it. Let’s see if you can say /t/ while I move my arms like a sprinkler.” Move your arms and say /t/ along with the class. “Good Job!”
4.Say: Let me show you how to find /t/ in tick. I am going to stretch out time in SUPER slow motion and listen for our ticking sprinkler. Tt-i-i-ck. Slower: Ttttt-i-i-i-ck. There it was! Did you hear it? I felt the tip of my tongue hit the roof of my mouth. So, our ticking arms are in the word tick.
5. Say: Let’s try out a tongue tickler [on chart]: “Tina took her toy tiara to Tracey’s treehouse.” Let’s all say it together three times. Now say it again, and this time, stretch the /t/ at the beginning of the words. “Tttttiina ttttoooookkk her tttttoooyyy tttiaarra tttttoooo Ttttraaaceey’s tttreeeehoouse.” Try it again, and this time break it off the word: “/t/ina /t/ook her /t/oy /t/iara /t/o /t/racey’s /t/reehouse.”
6. Students take out primary paper and pencil. Say: We use the letter T to spell /t/. Let’s write a capital T. Make a straight line across the rooftop on your paper. Now go to the middle of the line you just drew and draw a straight line from to the rooftop to the sidewalk. That’s a capitol T. Now, let’s make lowercase t’s. First you drop a straight line from the rooftop to the sidewalk, and then next you will cross it at the fence. I want to see everyone’s t’s. Once I put a smiley face on your paper, I want you to write four more capitol T’s and four more lowercase t’s.
7. Call on the students to answer some questions and ask how they knew. Do you hear /t/ in tock or clock? Tick or play? To or from? Trip or book? Tin or end? Let’s see if you can spot the mouth movement /t/ in some words. If you hear /t/ then move your arms like a sprinkler three times. Twin, Crab, Tent, Tag, Map, Truck, Slip, and Trash
8. Say: “Let’s read a story about Toby the Tiger. Toby is a lonely tiger. Instead of stripes, Toby's fur is covered in turquoise triangles. The other tigers do not want to be his friend because he looks different but Toby does something great that will make the other tigers change their minds about him. What do you think Toby did? Let’s read to find out. This story is full of ticking T’s!” Read “Toby the Tiger”. Then ask the children if they can think of any words that start with /t/. Ask the students to come up with a silly creature and give it a funny T name like Thomas-Tummy-Tickler. Have each student write his or her silly name with invented spelling and create a picture. Display their work.
9. Show TIP and model how to decide if it is tip or hip. Say: The T tells me to tick, /t/, so this word is ttt-ip, tip. You try some: TOP: top or mop? TEST: test or mess? SIT: sit or hip? TACK: tack or rack?
Assessment: For assessment, have students do worksheet and let them color and turn in for grade.
http://www.kidzone.ws/prek_wrksht/learning-letters/t.htm
Resource:
http://www.kidzone.ws/prek_wrksht/learning-letters/t.htm
https://sites.google.com/site/alisawesomelessons/home/ticking-clock-with-t
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