Learning G with Goofy Glen
By: Jordan Spivey
Rationale: This lesson will help the child to identify the phoneme /g/, a sound that is represented by the letter G. Through the lesson will enable the student to recognize the phoneme /g/ in spoken words by learning a meaningful representation (as we gulp down drink it sounds like “gggg”), practice finding /g/ in words, and learning a tongue tickler filled with /g/. Students will also learn to distinguish the letter g in phonetic cue reading by distinguishing rhyming words from beginning letters.
Materials:
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Picture of the letter G Goat
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Chart with tongue tickler “Goofy Glen grows grapes by the gate.”
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Tickler tale: Goofy Glen went to the gate to check his grapes. Goofy Glen grabbed his grapes.He brought the grapes to the picnic and gladly shared them with the group!
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Primary paper
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Pencils
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Word Cards with {green, go, grass, grew, glow, grape}
Assessment worksheet
Book: Grumpy Goat by Brett Helquist
Procedures:
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Say: Learning our language can be tricky at times because we may not understand what letters stand for. As we say words our mouth moves. Today we are going to work on spotting the mouth move /g/. When we spell /g/ we spell it with the letter G.
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Now let’s practice making the noise like you hear when drink your drink- /g/, /g/, /g/. Notice where your tongue is? Your lips are a part but your tongue is down. Now when you make the /g/ sound, take you hand and raise your glass for gulping drink Every time we make the /g/ sound we are going to act like we are drinking something.
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Now I am going to show you how to find /g/ in the word game. I will stretch game out slowly and I want you to listen for my gulping sound. Gggg-a-a-a -m-m-m- eee. I will try it slower: Ggggggg- aaaaa- mmmm- eee. I could feel my lips were apart and my tongue was down at the beginning of the word.
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Say: let’s try the tongue tickler that is on the poster: “Goofy Glen grows grapes by the gate.” Let’s say it together. Now stretch out the /g/ at the beginning of every word. “Ggggoofy Ggglen ggggrows ggggrapes by the ggggate.” This time we are going to break it off in the beginning of the word: “/g/oofy /g/len /g/rows /g/rapes by the /g/ate”.
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[Have students take out primary paper and pencil]. We use the letter G to spell /g/. Capital G looks like a C with a line. Let’s write the lowercase g. Start just below the fence. Begin by making a little c that stops at the fence, make a line back up to the fence and then drag it down into to the ditch cupping it up. I want to see everyone’s g. After I put a smile on it, I would like you to make 9 more just it!
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Call on students to answer and tell how they knew: Do you hear /g/ in fork or glow? Green or head? Go or nod? Spare or grass? Grew or blue? Say: Let’s see if you can spot the mouth move /g/ in some words. Gulp the drink if you hear /g/: The, giddy, girl, ran, thru, the, green, grass.
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Read the book, Grumpy Goat. Book talk: Grumpy Goat is a hungry, angry and has never had a friend. He moved to a new place and everyone stayed away. He found something that stopped him in his tracks. Let’s finishing reading the book to see what it was and if it changed him!
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Show GLOW and model how to decide if it is glow or blow. The G tells me to gulp my soda, /g/, so this word is gggg-low, glow. You try some GO: go or no? GREEN: green or lean? GRAPE: grape or cape? GRASS: grass or mass?
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For assessment, distribute the worksheet and pencil. Students are to color the pictures that starts with 'g' and write the word on the line. Call students up individually to read the phonetic cue words from step #8.
References:
http://www.kidzone.ws/kindergarten/g2-begins2.htm
Amber Glass .Reading Genie Website."Gulping Grape Soda with G."
http://ang0018.wixsite.com/mysite/emergent-literacy
https://www.themeasuredmom.com/favorite-stories-for-kids-for-the-letter-g/
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