Ginny Radford
"Education is the most power weapon we can use to change the world." - Nelson Mendela
DDDING DDDING THE BELL WITH D
By: Ginny Radford
Rationale: In order for children to be able to decode words and succeed in reading, they must have an accurate understanding of phonemes. This lesson will help children identify /d/, the phoneme represented by D. Students will learn to recognize /d/ in spoken words by learning a meaningful representation (Dinging a bell) and the letter symbol D in written words.
Materials:
Hand outs of the bell picture (any picture of a bell will work)
“My Dog Fred” poem
worksheet
White board
Expo marker
Poster with words written: DIME, DOCK, MUD, DAY
1. Today we are going to learn about the letter D. The letter D is for /d/ and it sounds like a bell going Diiiing Diiiiing. Can you make a bell sound? Good. Lets put a hand motion along with our sound. When we make the Diiiiing D sound, let's put one hand in the air and pretend you are ringing your little bell. Now, we know that this is a /d/ sound because when we say it, our tongue touches the roof of our mouth. When we say /d/ our mouth form an almost smile. (Let them experiment along with you). When you were saying /d/, /d/, /d/, did you feel your mouth open a little bit? Did you feel your tongue start behind your top teeth and then dart back behind your bottom teeth? Great job!
2. Now I want to show you a silly saying with our new sound. (Write the silly saying on the board. As you write, dramatize the D in each word.) Let's say the phrase together now. "Delightful Dewey Drove Down to the Diner to get Dinner." (Have the students say the phrase one more time together.) Now let's stretch our saying out: DDDDelightful DDDDewey DDDrove DDDown to the DDDiner to get DDDDDinner." Good job! We are going to do it one more time and this time I want you to ring your bell when you hear /d/.
3. Let's see if we can find our DDDing-ing bell in the word DUCK. DDDDDUCK. I heard it! It was at the beginning. Who else heard it? D-U-C-K. Did you hear it that time? What about the word CAR? C-c-c-a-a-a-r-r-r. No, I didn't hear the DDDing in car.
4. How about everybody get out your paper and pencil so we can learn how to draw our D! Start with a line that goes from the roof all the way to the sidewalk. Now, we are going to connect the top of the line to the bottom. We do this by putting out pencil at the roof and making a curve all the way to the sidewalk where the line touches. Let me see everybody's big D's. Great! Now try it five more times on your own. Now, let's look at little d. Start with little c by starting just below the fence. Go up to the fence and curve around until you get to the sidewalk. Curve back up and you have little c. Is that ready to be a little d yet? NO! Then go up to the rooftop and make a line all the way down to the sidewalk to make the little d. Let me see everybody's little d's. Great! Now try it five more times on your own.
7. Introduce “My Dog Fred” poem. "This person has a dog and they cannot get him to do anything! I am going to read this poem to you, and each time you hear the DDDDDing, I want you to give me a big thumbs up. I am going to read it slower the second time and I want you to write the dribbling d words on your paper. Maybe by the end of the poem we will know why the dog will not perform any tricks."
8. I will show the word dot and model how to decide if it is dot or pot. The d tells me that I need to use my DDDing sound, /d/. dddddot. Now you try some: dig, dig or pig? ten, ten or den? pug, pug or dug? date, late or date?
9. Students will be assessed by completing a worksheet that displays pictures of several items. Students are directed to color the pictures that have the /d/ sound in them.
Resources:
Poem –
http://www.poetry4kids.com/poem-546.html#.Vf8owxFViko
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DeDe Caroll’s - DDing DDing DDing Your Bell with D http://www.auburn.edu/academic/education/reading_genie/awakenings/carrollel.htm
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Britany Cain – Dribble you D
http://www.auburn.edu/academic/education/reading_genie/invitations/cainel.htm
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Worksheet –
http://www.kidzone.ws/kindergarten/letterd.ht
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