Beginning Reading Design: Oscar has an odd obsession.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Michael Spurlin

 

Rationale: This lesson is to help beginner readers develop better reading skills and phoneme awareness as they practice finding /o/ in words. Students will recognize /o/ in spoken and read words by learning a meaningful representation. They will do this by learning the letter symbol O, practicing finding /o/ in words, and by applying phoneme awareness with /o/ in phonetic cue reading by distinguishing rhyming words from beginning letters.

Materials:

1 copy of Doc in the Fog

4 colored letterboxes

Various cutout letters for letterboxes with duplicates

Phoneme picture for meaningful reference

Tongue Tickler (Oscar has an odd obsession)

List of /o/ phoneme words

Procedures:

1. Begin with introducing the phoneme /o/ and discussing the kinds of words we hear the sound in. Next we’ll look at the phoneme picture of someone yawning and making the O shape with their mouth and talk about words we hear that sound in.

2. Now we’ll practice our /o/ sound Ooo like when we say Oscar’s name. Practice our Tongue Tickler (Oscar has an odd obsession) saying it a few times together and repeating it. Next practice saying the /o/ sound longer when we hear it in words so we’ll sound like “Ooooscar has an oooodd oooobsession.” Then one more time where you break the /o/ sound apart from the word like “/o/ scar has an /o/ dd /o/ bsession.”

3. Now we’ll practice writing and spelling words with  the /o/ phoneme in them on primary paper with a pencil :

Oscar, odd, pop, top, cop, drop, flop, shop, doll, frog

1. Next we’ll practice with word flash cards having the student read the word to you. These words will be words that have /o/ phonemes in them and this will provide extra practice. Then the teacher will call out a list of words asking the student “What word has the /o/ sound in it?” Mop or map, top or tap, drop, or drip, cop or cup…etc.

2. Now we will read a new book that focuses on the phoneme /o/ and provides practice reading these words. Start with a short book talk about Doc in the Fog, “This book is about a wizard that does magic that occasionally goes wrong and turns things into something else so we’ll have to see what happens and what Doc does.”

3. Assessment: Here we will have students work with sentences that have words in them that have phoneme /o/ in them. Students will underline the words they find /o/ in and sound them out. Students will practice writing the Tongue Tickler we went over and spell the words correctly as they sound them out using the pantomime from the picture representing the vowel (someone yawning).

 

References:

Doc in the Fog by Sheila Cushman

http://www.auburn.edu/academic/education/reading_genie/phonpics.html  for the vowel picture