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Popping Popcorn with P

Emergent Literacy

Rationale: The purpose of this lesson is to help students recognize the letter P and its phoneme /p/. I am using popcorn to help students hear and picture the sound that /p/ makes. This lesson will help teach students the /p/ sound by practicing writing the letter, identifying the sound in spoken word, reading a book, and writing a story using the letter sound.

Materials:

primary writing paper, a picture of the phoneme (popcorn popping)
word list with words that have p in them and a few review words from previous lessons that also have p in them
a worksheet to identify words with /p/ in them as an assessment (link below)
Dr. Seuss ABC (Random House, 1963)
drawing paper

Procedures:

1. Say introduction: All of the letters that are in our alphabet make a different sound. Sometimes it can be hard to remember the sound that each letter makes. A great way to remember the sounds the letters make, is to watch are mouth when we make the noise and see what it does. The letter we are learning about today is the letter P (show a picture of popcorn popping). Raise your hand if you remember a time when you popped popcorn. What sound did the popcorn make?

Get the class to practice saying /p/. Teach them to do a hand gesture each time they make the noise where they open and close their hands quickly to look they are popping.

2. Say: Grab a partner and face each other. One at a time, practice making the /p/ sound. Watch your partner’s mouth and see what is does. When your partner makes the sound, their lips some together and the blow air out.

3. Say: We are going to practice finding the /p/ sound in a few words. I will demonstrate the first word: top. I am going to say the word really low and when
I hear the /p/ sound I am going to make the hand gesture we learned earlier:

T-o-p t-o-p. I hear it at the end, t-o-p (make the hand gesture). Now I am going to show some words and we are going to do it as a class. (hold up cards with p in them and have the class make then hand gesture when they hear /p/).

4. Say: I am going to read a story about popping popcorn with Peggy. Every time you hear /p/ show me with your hands:

Peggy was very hungry after opening plenty of presents. She went to the pantry to find food. Peggy found some popcorn. “Perfect!” Peggy said and took the popcorn to her mom. “Will you please help me pop popcorn?” she asked patiently. “Yes” said her mom. “I love popping popcorn with Peggy”.

5. Pass out primary paper to the class. Have the class practice writing the capital and lowercase letter P. Explain to them how to correctly write it. Say: “For capital P, start at the roof and draw a straight line down to the sidewalk. Then, start a little below the roof and curve upward touching the roof and coming down to touch the fence. For lower case p, start at the fence and draw a straight line down to the ditch. Then, start below the fence and curve up touching the fence then curving down touching the sidewalk. Practice writing both across your page.”

6. Call on students to answer and tell how they knew: Do you hear /p/ in tan or pan? Ton or top? Pet or met?

When you hear /p/ making a popping mothing with your hands like we practiced: Peggy, loved, to, pop, yummy, popcorn, with, her, precious, mom.

7. Say: "Let's look at an alphabet book. Dr. Seuss tells us about funny words using all of the letters in the alphabet. Today we are going to focus on the letter p!" Read the pages 37-39 about the letter P. Then have each student write a silly name using the letter P and using invented spelling. Have them draw a picture to go along with it.

8. Assessment: Pass out a worksheet and have the students say the words on the sheet and circle where they hear the /p/ sound. Then have them color the pictures. Next, have them write the upper and lower case P.

References:

http://www.auburn.edu/academic/education/reading_genie/

Emily Holliday Pop the Popcorn with “P”- http://egh00100.wixsite.com/mysite/emergent-literacy

http://www.kidzone.ws/kindergarten/p-begins1.htm

Return to Cultivations page: http://www.auburn.edu/academic/education/reading_genie/cultivations.html

Ms. Shepherd