Emergent Reading Design

Sliding Snail Slithers down the Slide

Rationale: In this lesson we will identify /s/. Students will learn how to recognize /s/ in spoken words by learning a meaningful representation (snail slithering down the slide) and the letter symbol S, practice finding /f/ in words, and apply phoneme awareness with /f/ in phonetic cue reading by distinguishing rhyming words from beginning letters.

Materials:

- primary paper and pencil

- chart with tongue tickler: “ Sliding Snail Slithered down the Slide”

- drawing paper and crayons

- word cards- Sad, Sand, Sing, Song, Slide

- book “Some Smug Slug” by Pamela Duncan Edwards

- assessment worksheet

Procedures:

“The alphabet can kind of be a secret code. Our mouth makes the sounds that the word is saying. Today we are going to practice saying “s”. S sounds like sliding snail slithered down the slide.”
“Lets pretend that we are singing “Sliding Snail Slithers down the slide”. Can you hear the “sss?”
“Let me show you how to find the letter S in song. Lets try to find “S” in song. I will stretch it out for you. SSonggg. Lets say it slower this time SSSooong. Do you hear it?”
“Lets try to do our tongue twister. Lets say it together “Sliding Snail Slithered down the slide.” Lets say it two more times. Sliding Snail Slithered down the slide. This time lets try to find the “s” and stretch it out SSSliding SSSnail SSSlithers down the SSSlide.” For the last one lets find the “s”s. [s]liding [s]nail [s]lithered down the [s]lide.”
Lets take out our primary paper and pencil. We use the letter S to make the sound s. Can you write the letter S on your paper? Lets write the lowercase s. Start below the rooftop and curve it around and come back to where you started ending at the bottom of the line. Show me what your s looks like and then we can write five more letter s.
Now tell me do you hear “f” in: sad or mad? Sand or pan? Song or gone? Hat or Sat?
Now lets look at this snail book. It has all different types of snails. Can you tell me what other animals start with s?
Show words like Sad and say can you hear sad or lad? Sat or mat?
Assess from different worksheets

Resources:

https://courtneyslessondesigns.weebly.com/emergent-literacy.html