Emergent Literacy Design
HEAVY BREATHING DOG WITH AN H
Rationale: This lesson will help children identify /h/, the phoneme represented by H. Students will learn to recognize /h/ in spoken words by learning a sound analogy (heavy breathing dog) and the letter symbol H, practice finding /h/ in words, and apply phoneme awareness with /h/ in phonetic cue reading by distinguishing rhyming words from beginning letters.
Materials: primary paper and pencil; searching for the uppercase and lowercase letter H game; drawing paper and markers; Dr. Suess’s ABC (Random House 1963); word cards with HOT, HIT, HAIR, HELP, HOLD, HOUSE; assessment worksheet identifying words with /h/ and H/h letters.
Procedures: 1. Say: our written language is a secret code. The book we are going to read could be a little difficult, but we are gonna read it together. The tricky part is learning what letters stand for- the mouth moves we make as we say words. Today we’re going to work on spotting the mouth move /h/. We spell /h/ with letter H. H looks like a horse, and /h/ sounds like a panting, heavy breathing dog.
2. Lets pretend to be a panting dog, /h/, /h/, /h/. [Pantomime breathing dog]. Notice the shape your mouth is in? (An O). When we say /h/, we blow air out of our mouths. The sound is made with the motion of your vocal chords but is not voiced. ... To produce the /h/ sound, constrict your throat and breathe out through your mouth.
3. Let me show you how to find /h/ in the word hand. I’m going to stretch my hand out in super slow motion and listen for my heavy breathing dog. Hhh-a-a-and. Slower: Hhh-a-a-a-nn-d. There it was! I felt the O shape in my mouth and the air coming through. Heavy breathing dog /h/ is in hand.
4. Let’s try a tongue tickler [on chart]. Harry had a hippo who loved to hang out with his friends and play outside. He loved to hula hoop, hop, and play on the swings. The hippo was a great friend because he had such a big heart. Here's our tickler: “Harry's hippo had a huge heart.” Everybody say it three times together. Now say it again, and this time, stretch the /h/ at the beginning of the words. “Hhharrys hhhippo hhhad a hhhuge hhheart.”Try it again, and this time break it off the word: “/h/ arry /h/ ad a /h/uge /h/eart.”
5. [Have the student take out a primary paper and pencil]. We use letter H to spell /h/. Capital H looks like a house. Let’s write the lowercase letter h. Start just below the rooftop. Start to make a line all the way down to the sidewalk. Then start a curve line up the fence and then curve it back down to the sidewalk. It should look like a rainbow attached to the line. I want to see everybody’s h. After I put a smile on it, I want you to make nine more just like it!
6. Call on students to answer and tell how they knew: Do you hear /h/ in work or hold? Finger or head? Left or hit? High or bike? Pink or help? Say: lets see if you can spot the mouth move /h/ in some words. Put your paws up if you hear /h/: David, hide, his, hammer, under, a, hill, of, honey, colored, hay.
7. Say: “Let’s look at an alphabet book. Dr. Suess tells us about hungry and hiding creatures!” Read page 17 and 18, drawing out /h/. Ask children if they can think of other words with /h/. Ask them to make up a silly creature name like hipper-hepper-hop or hiffer-hoffer-hill. Then have each student write their silly name with invented spelling and draw a picture of their silly creature. Display their work.
8. Show HOT and model how to decide if it is hot or got. The H tells me to breathe like a dog, /h/ so this word is hhh-ot. You try some: HIT: hit or sit? HOLD: hold or bold? HAT: hat or sat? HOT: hot or not? HAND: hand or sand?
9. For assessment, distribute the worksheet. Students color the pictures that begin with H. Call students individually to read the phonetic cue words from step #8
Assessment worksheet:
Dr.Suess Book
http://msbrosius.weebly.com/uploads/3/7/9/7/37974241/lt_10.3_dr_suess_abc.pdf
References:
“Phonics: H Sound Worksheet.” Liveworksheets.com - Interactive Worksheets Maker for All. Languages and Subjects,https://www.liveworksheets.com/worksheets/en/English_as_a_Second_Language_(ESL)/Phonics/Phonics*_h_sound_mi202972us.
Oh the Places You’Ll Go by Dr. Seuss. http://benavidez5thgrade.weebly.com/uploads/8/6/7/3/86734958/oh-the-places-youll-go-by-dr-seuss.pdf.