Rationale:

In this lesson, it will help children identify /t/, the phoneme represented by T. Students will learn to recognize /t/ in spoken words use sound analogy (Ticking of a clock) and the letter symbol T, practicing finding /t/ in words, and apply phoneme awareness with /t/ in phonetic cue reading by distinguishing rhyming words from beginning letters. 

 

Materials:

•Primary paper, pencil, and crayons

•Chart with “Timmy the Toucan takes the train to Texas”

•Dr. Seuss’s ABC (Random house, 1963)

•Word cards with the words: TALL, TOE, TAP, SAT, BAG, TAKE

•Worksheet: https://pin.it/27ZuH2R

 

Procedures:

1. Today we will be learning about the letter T! The letter T is tricky because it has a special way to pronounce it. So, we are going to learn on how to move our mouth to say /t/. When we think of the /t/ sound sometimes we think of the sound a clock makes. Let’s learn more!

2. I want you to think of a clock, show me how the arms of a clock move? Now each time you move your arms I want to you make the /t/ sound every time you move your arms. We can make the /t/ sound by placing the tip of our tongue behind our top teeth and release our tongue back into our mouth. Now you try!

3. Now I want you to try to find the sound /t/ when I say l-a-t-e-r. It is in the middle of the word where my tongue hits the behind the top of my teeth.

4. Now we are going to say a tongue tickler. A tongue tickler is like a tongue twister where each word starts with the same first letter. (Points to the chart with a picture of Timmy the Toucan and the tongue tickler). This is Timmy the toucan. He is a colorful toucan who wants to explore the South. Our tongue tickler is “Timmy the Toucan takes the train to Texas”. Can you say it out loud together? Do you hear the /t/? Now let’s all say it slower and drag out the /t/. Each time you hear the /t/ tap your wrist like you have a watch on.

5. [have the student take out primary paper and pencil]. A capital T looks like a table. Let’s write the lowercase letter t. You can start just below the rooftop and draw a straight line down to the sidewalk. Then cross the line at the fence. After I give you a sticker, I want you to make 9 more just like that!

6. Call on students to answer. Do you hear the /t/ in tail or nose? Pot or pan? Toe or ear? Lift or flip? Say:  if you can spot the mouth movement for /t/ in some words move your arms like a clock. A teacher took her tape to town.

7. Say: Let’s look at an alphabet book that uses the letter T. In ABC, Dr. Suess tells a story about all the different things that begins with a lot of the letters of the alphabet. When Dr. Suess talks about the letter T, he tells us a story of turtles and a weird place they go to rest. [read page 42 normally] [read it again emphasizing /t/] Say: Can you think of any animals that start with T? What about any objects or things? I want you to draw your word that begins with T and try to spell it.  Say: I am going to show you some cards and you tell me if it makes the /t/ sound like t-t-tick like a clock. TALL: tall or fall? TOE: shoe or toe? TAP: sap or tap? SAT: sat or sad? BAG: bag or bat? TAKE: lake or take?

8. For the individual assessment, I will pass out the worksheet [link listed]. Students will practice writing the letter T, recognizing the letter T within other letters, and reading words with the letter T.

Worksheet: https://pin.it/27ZuH2R

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Assessment Worksheet: https://pin.it/27ZuH2R

Murray, B. Brush your Teeth with F. https://murraba.wixsite.com/reading-lessons/el 
Seuss. Dr. Seuss’s ABC Book. Random House, 1963.

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