Phonemes Lesson (incorporating audio)

Introduction:
Lesson Topic: Phonemes
Length: 30 minutes
Standard of Learning: 1.4 The student will orally identify and manipulate phonemes (small units of
sound) in syllables and multisyllabic words.
a) Count phonemes (sounds) in syllables or words with a maximum of three syllables.
b) Add or delete phonemes (sounds) orally to change syllables or words.
c) Create rhyming words orally.
d) Blend sounds to make word parts and words with one to three syllables.
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Learning Objectives:
● Students will be able to count phonemes in words, up to three syllables.
● Students will be able to add or delete sounds orally, to change syllables or words.
● Students will be able to identify rhyming words.
● Students will be able to make words using one to three syllables.

Teaching and Learning Sequence:

Introduction/Anticipatory Set
● I will begin the lesson by reading Green Eggs and Ham, by Dr. Seuss to the class, while
we are seating together in the story-telling area of the classroom.
● Once the story is over, I will begin discussing words that rhyme, such as “Sam”, “ham”,
and “I am.”
● I will ask students if they heard any other examples of rhyming words in the story.

Lesson Development
● We will continue to give examples of words that rhyme and I will ask students to come up with
examples that are not in the story.
● We will then discuss syllables, first citing examples from the story. I will demonstrate how to
count syllables, and will ask students to try.
● We will start with examples from Green Eggs and Ham, giving students the chance to count how
many syllables are in the words. We will count out loud as a class.
● Next, I will ask students to pick a word, and we will count the number of syllables.
● For the next example, I will choose a word that can be modified to add or delete syllables. For
example, I might choose the word “quiet” which has two syllables, and then “quietly” which as
three. We will discuss more examples of adding and deleting syllables.
● Once students have an understanding of this process, they will go back to their seats and will use
the computers. Now, students will play the audio recording I have made, which will be a reading
of an excerpt from Horton Hears a Who. This will allow each student to work at his/her own pace,
having the ability to pause the recording, or go back as needed. This will also the students to listen
to the clip as many times as they need to in order to take note of the rhymes.
● Students will given a worksheet, where they can make a tally mark for each rhyme they hear.
Students will be asked to remember some of the rhymes they hear, to share with the class.

Closure
● Once they students have listened to the audio file, we will regroup as a class. I will ask who found
the most rhymes.
 ● Students will share with the class the different rhymes they heard in the audio file.

Materials Needed:
● Green Eggs and Ham book
● Pre-recorded audio file for Horton Hears a Who
● Rhyme finder worksheet