EL Design

Anchor 1

Crunchin’ on some Cookies with Miss. Taylor

Rationale: This lesson will help children identify /c/, the phoneme represented by C. Students will learn to recognize /c/ in spoken words by learning a meaningful representation (crunch the cookie) and the letter symbol C, practice finding /c/ in words, and apply phoneme awareness with /c/ in phonetic cue reading by distinguishing rhyming words from beginning letter.

Materials: Primary paper and pencil; chart with “Connor and Cade can cook cookies, candy, casserole, and corn”; drawing paper and crayons; The Fat Cat; word cards with CAT, COUGH, SANDY, DIME, and CORN; assessment worksheet identifying pictures with /c/ (URL below).

Procedures:

Say: "Our written language is a secret code. The tricky part is learning what the letters stand for and the way our mouths move when we say words. Today, we’re going to work on spotting when our mouth makes the /c/ sound. We spell /c/ with the letter C. C looks like a circle that is missing a piece; kind of like a cookie that has a bite taken out of it. When you take a bit of a cookie, it makes a crunch sound. Do you hear the /c/ in crunch?"
Say: "Let’s pretend that we’re eating cookies! Make the /c/ sound when taking the bites. /c/, /c/, /c/." [Act like you’re eating cookies]. "Can you feel where your tongue touches the roof of your mouth? In the back, right? When we say /c/, we touch our tongue to the roof of our mouth in the back of our mouth. When the air passes through, we hear our tongue and roof-of-mouth separating."
Say: "Let me show you how to find the /c/ in popcorn. I’m going to stretch popcorn out in super slow motion and listen for my cookie crunching. Pp-oo-pp-ccc-orr-n. One more time. Pp-oo-pp-ccc-ooorrr-nn. AH!! I felt my tongue touch the roof of my mouth and heard the /c/ sound when the air passed through. I can feel the cookie crunching /c/ in popcorn."
Say: "Let’s look at a tongue tickler! 'Connor and Cade can cook cookies, candy, casserole, and corn.' Let’s say it two more times together." [say it together twice] "Now, say it again. Only this time, stretch out the /c/ at the beginning of the words. /C//C/Connor and /C//C/Cade /c//c/can /c//c/cook /c//c/cookies, /c//c/candy, /c//c/casserole, and /c//c/corn."
[Have student take out primary paper and pencil]. Say: "We use the letter C to spell /c/. The letter C looks like a cookie with a bite taken out of it. Let’s write the lowercase letter c to start with. Start just below the fence, making a loop shape up to the fence, out and down to the sidewalk, and make another loop upwards after touching the sidewalk. If you want to make the uppercase letter C, you would do the same motion only starting at the rooftop. Make a lowercase c and an uppercase C. Once I give you two stickers, I want you to make 4 more lowercase and 4 more uppercase C’s."
Check for understanding – Say: "Now we’re going to see if you can find the /c/ sound in some words. Do you hear /c/ in cat or bat? Car or van? Carrot or potato? Let’s see if you can spot the mouth move /c/ in some words. Crunch on a cookie if you hear /c/: Cassie ate the cake with Cathy when they came home from the cabin."
Say: “Let’s look at an alphabet book. Cheryl Ryan tells us about a Cat who is in a cabin with his friend. I am going to read a page, and I want you to crunch on a cookie when you hear /c/.” Read page 5. “What else could Matt the Cat eat that has the /c/ sound in it? I want you to write a sentence and draw a picture to show me what else Matt the Cat could eat.”
[Show CAT and model how to decide if it is cat or bat.] Say: "The C tells me to crunch on my cookie, /c/, so this word is cccc-at, cat. You try some! COUGH: cough or loft? SANDY: candy or sandy? DIME: crime or dime? CORN: thorn or corn?"
For assessment, distribute worksheets. Students are to write in letters that fit the words, and then color only the pictures that have the /c/ sound in them. For additional assessment, call up students to read the phonetic cues from #8 one by one.

Resources:

Assessment Handout:

http://www.kidzone.ws/kindergarten/c-begins2.htm

Crunch on a Cookie:

https://hannahlouiseperkin.wixsite.com/bomblessondesigns/emergent-literacy-guide

Format Ideas:

https://jla00365.wixsite.com/mysite/emergent-literacy

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