Beginning and ending sounds - Lesson 2 of 2

Grade Levels

1st Grade

Course, Subject

English Language Arts

Related Academic Standards

Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes). • Distinguish long from short vowel sounds in spoken single-syllable words. • Count, pronounce, blend, and segment syllables in spoken and written words. • Orally produce single-syllable words, including consonant blends and digraphs. • Isolate and pronounce initial, medial vowel, and final sounds (phonemes) in spoken single-syllable words. • Add or substitute individual sounds (phonemes) in one-syllable words to make new words.

CC.1.1.1.D CC.1.1.1.D

Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words. • Identify common consonant diagraphs, final-e, and common vowel teams. • Decode one and two-syllable words with common patterns. • Read grade-level words with inflectional endings. • Read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words.

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Vocabulary

Letter - a mark used in writing or printing that stands for a speech sound

Phonemes - a basic unit of sound that can distinguish words

Sound - any one of the noises that are made in speaking /a vowel sound/

Syllable - a word or part of a word in which the voice sounds only once. A syllable always has a vowel sound and usually also has one or more consonant sounds.

Blend - a sequence of two or more consonant sounds within a syllable, as the bl in blend; consonant cluster.

Objectives

1. What do you want students to know and be able to do?

•Differentiate between a letter sound and letter.

• Distinguish initial, medial and final sounds in single-syllable words.

• Distinguish long- and short-vowel sounds in orally stated single-syllable words.

2. The students will be able to…

• Orally blend three or more spoken phonemes into recognizable words.

• Orally segment single syllable spoken words into their phonemes.

Lesson Essential Question(s)

How can the knowledge of language help us to communicate and understand?

Duration

30 - 45 minutes

Materials

Words to choose from for activity that were used in lesson 1

short a words

short e words

short i words

short o words

short u words

work sheets for lesson plan 1

word cards to use for lesson 1

Suggested Instructional Strategies

T: The lesson includes working in a large group with auditory and rhythm patterns to introduce the topic. After the introduction activity you will move on to worksheets to see if the students understand beginning and ending sounds. To reinforce what they are learning the students can do individual practice on the computer.

O: The focus of this lesson is to understand beginning and ending sounds and what letter these sounds relate to.

Instructional Procedures

Session 2

W: In today's lesson, we are going to learn two signals to help us pick out the beginning and ending sounds of words. For the beginning sounds you will stand up and for the ending sounds you will turn around.

H: Now let's practice listen for the /m/ sound. Say /man/ - demonstrate by standing up, have the students stand up too. Next, say the word /Pam/ - demonstrate by turning around, have the students turn around also. Practice several times if the students are having difficulty.

E: Ask the students, "Where do you hear the / /?" Then say a word aloud and have students give the appropriate signal if the sound is at the beginning or end of the word. After you have reviewed several sets of words, introduce a signal for the middle sound. Now we are going to learn a new signal for the middle sound or vowel in the words. We are now going to clap hands when we hear the middle sound. "Where do you hear the /a/ sound. Say /man/- demonstrate by clapping hands, have the students clap hands too. Practice several times with just the middle sound and then start to add in some beginning and ending sounds.

Display a transparency or enlargement of worksheet that has pictures of words that you have used in the last lesson. Now we are going to practice using our worksheets. Point to the last letter and ask students the sound the letter makes (/p/). Then have students say the name of the picture aloud. Ask a student volunteer to write the letter p at the beginning or end of the word, depending on where they hear the key sound.

work sheets for lesson plan 1

word cards to use for lesson 1

R: To help reinforce what we have been working on you can go to the computers and go on https://www.readwritethink.org/materials/picturematch/ follow the directions.

E: After the students have practiced on the computer and the worksheets, you can then evaluate how they are doing by using letter cards or letter cubes to put together words by giving the students the beginning and ending sound. They will each use the same vowel sounds but have different beginning and ending letters to use.

Formative Assessment

CATEGORY	1 - having difficulty distinquishing between the beginning, middle or ending sound is.	2 - partially understands where the beginning, middle or ending sound is	3. Proficient in knowing where the beginning, middle and ending sound is	4. Advanced - has no difficulty distinguishing between beginning, middle and ending sound
Letter Sounds	Recognizes and produces few letter sounds	Recognizes and produces half of the letter sounds	Recognizes and produces most letter sounds	Recognizes and produces all letter sounds

Phoneme Segmentation

Does not segment sounds in words

Inconsistently gives beginning, middle or ending sounds in words.

Consistently gives correct beginning, middle or ending sounds in words.

Automatically segments sounds in words.

Letter Sounds Rubric - can be used for the worksheet activities when they see the letter along with hearing the sound.

Phoneme Segmentation Rubric - this can be used as a quick assessment during the first part of the lesson. It will give you an indication on the students who will need more practice before moving to the worksheets or computer activity.

Related Materials & Resources

"ReadWriteThink: Student Materials: Picture Match." Homepage - ReadWriteThink. Web. 01 Mar. 2010. https://www.readwritethink.org/materials/picturematch/.

Beginning and ending sounds - Lesson 2 of 2