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Emergent Literacy Lesson

Lick Your Lollipop with L

Emergent Literacy Design

Abbey Jenkins

 

Rationale:This lesson will help children identify /l/, the phoneme represented by L. They will be able to recognize /l/ in spoken words by learning meaningful representation (licking a lollipop) and the letter symbol L, practice finding /l/ in words, and applying phoneme awareness with /l/ in phonetic cue reading by distinguishing rhyming words from beginning letters.

Material: Primary paper and pencil; chart with ‘Lily Licks the Long Lollipop”; crayons and drawing paper; word cards with LICK, LOVE, LOW, KIT, MATE; DR. Seuss’s ABC (Random House, 1963) assessment worksheet with pictures of words that start with /l/. (URL Below)

Procedures 1: Say: The alphabet can be really confusing sometimes; letters look very similar. Luckily when we say these letters our mouths move in different ways to help us figure out what letter it is. Today we are going to work on the letter L and /l/. We are going to see how our mouths move when we say /l/. We spell /l/ with letter L. Now when we lick a lollipop, we can feel our mouths moving the same way you say /l/.

2. Now let’s pretend like we are licking a lollipop, /l/, /l/, /l/. [Moving your hand up and down like a lollipop as they pretend to lick it] Notice what your tongue is doing? When we say /l/ our tongue starts on the top of our mouths and comes down as air comes out.

3.Now let me show you how to find /l/ in the word tale. I’m going to stretch out tale in slow motion and I want you to listen for the /l/ sound: t-A-l (silent e). Now we can try it slower. ttt-AAA-lll-(silent e). There is was! I felt my tongue touch the top of my mouth and come back down as air came out. I can hear to licking of the lollipop in tale.

4. We are now going to try a tongue twister (on the chart). “Lily licks the long lollipop”. Let’s say it all together three times. Now we are going to try something different. We are now going to say it again, but this time stretch out the /l/ at the beginning of each word. LLLillly lllicks the lllong lllollllipop. Try it again and this time try breaking it off the word. “/l/i/l/y /l/icks the /l/ong /l/o/l//l/ipop”.

5.(Have student take out primary paper and pencil). We use the letter L to spell /l/. A capital L looks like a Lama. Now let’s write the lower-case letter l. Start at the very top of the roof and go all the way down to the sidewalk. I want to see everyone’s l. After I put a stamp on your paper, I want you to make ten more l’s just like the first one.

6.Now call on students to allow them to answer and tell you how they know these questions. Do you hear a /l/ in Line or Work? Hid or Pal? Shop or Mall? Blue or Red? Light or Dark? Good job! Now let’s see if you can spot the mouth move /l/ in some words. Everyone holds up their lollipops and lick down when you hear the /l/ sound in the words: cat, let, corn, light, gift, food, plate.

7.Say: Let’s look at our alphabet book. Dr. Seuss uses funny names and words that start with L. Read page 28, while teaching out the /l/. Now ask the children if they can think of any words starting with L that they can find in the classroom or their own homes. Have them write these items they think of and draw a picture of the items. Once they are all done, display their artwork.

8.Show the word cards. Starting with LICK and model how to decide if it is LICK or DUCK. You can model by saying, The L tells me to think of licking a lollipop. So, the /l/ in this word is lll-ick. LICK. Now the students can try some: LOVE: love or mate? LOW: low or great? FALL: ride or fall? GAL: bee or gal?

9.For the assessment, I have a worksheet handout. Students are asked to say the name of each picture out load and listen for the /l/. Then they are to color each picture that has the sound /l/. They are also asked to practice writing the letter l. When all of them are working on that, I will call on students individually to read the phonetic cue words from step #8.

 

Assessment worksheet:https://www.kidzone.ws/prek_wrksht/learning-letters/l.htm

 

References: Dr. Bruce Murray: http://wp.auburn.edu/rdggenie/

Picture- https://www.123rf.com/photo_16707433_young-girl-licking-a-red-lollipop.html

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