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"D"with ditzy Dino's

Rationale: This lesson will help students identify /d/, the phoneme represented by D. Students will learn to recognize /d/ in spoken words by learning a memorable representation. When Dino’s run their feet make the “da da da da” sound. Also, they will learn to recognize the letter symbol D, practice finding /d/ in words, and practice phoneme awareness in phonetic cue reading by distinguishing rhyming words from beginning letters.

Materials: Picture of a dog, duck, dinosaur, and the letter d; chart paper with "Ditzy dino’s danced in the dusty dirt" printed on it; primary paper and pencil; One Duck Stuck by Phyllis Root; word cards with DOG, DOLL, DAD, and DARK printed on them; assessment page with images of cat, dog, door, bed, book, and duck.

Procedures:

1.     Say: Today we are going to learn about a very special letter.  Learning our letters and the sounds they make will help us learn the secret code of written words. Show pictures of dinosaurs, dog’s, and ducks. Can you take a guess at what letter this is? That’s right! This letter is a D. All those things we looked at they start with the letter D. Let us look at those Dino’s again. Dino’s are a little Ditzy and when they run around they make the sound “da da da da”. 

2.     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? Say /d/ again to see if you feel that.

3.     We are going to see if we can find the /d/ sound in some of our words. Let’s try the word Duck.  Ddduuuuccckkk Da Da uck do you hear the /d/ sound? Yes at the beginning.  What about dance? DDDaaaannncceee.  Can you hear it?

 

4.     Are you ready to tickle your tongues? The teacher will refer to the chart: "Ditzy dino’s danced in the dusty dirt” Let's say it again three times! Ok, now let's say it silly.  Let's be silly by dragging out our Daaa sound.  /D/itzy /D/ino’s /D/anced in the /D/usty /D/irt.  Now let's say it right! Ditzy dino’s danced in the dusty dirt! Great!

 

5.     How about everybody get out your paper and pencil so we can learn how to draw our 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.

 

6.     I'm going to give you two words and I want you to tell me which word has the /d/ sound in it! Are you ready? (Taking volunteers for either the answer or how they knew, or both.) Do you hear "DUH" in dog or cat? Duck or kite? Dinosaur or fossil? Fool or Drink? Pants or Dress? Middle or beginning?  Start or End?

 

7.     Now we are going to read this funny book called One Duck Stuck by Phyllis Root. “Down by the marsh, by the sleepy, slimy marsh, one duck gets stuck in the muck.  Who can help?” As each group of animals comes by to help (from two fish all the way up to ten dragonflies), there’s “no luck.  The duck stays stuck in the muck.”  But when all the animals work together…lets read and see what happens. When I read this book, every time you hear the /d/ sound, I want you to yell it out /d/ Da!

8.     (The teacher will show a card with the word DOG on it.) How can we read this...?  Does this say log or dog? The /d/ sound teaches us to say DUH when we see a D.  So this must be /d/ og.  Now you try! Does this say: DOLL: Doll or mall? DAD: dad or mad? DARK: dark or bark?

9.     To asses pass out coloring worksheet.  The dog outline has words with d inside and they color the d words with dark colors and the other words with green.  Worksheet can be found here:https://www.education.com/download/worksheet/108806/letter-d-detective.pdf

Reference:

Lynn Mitcham http://www.auburn.edu/academic/education/reading_genie/doorways/mitchamlel.htm

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