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I,I, Captain

Rationale: In this lesson the students will learn the long vowel correspondence i_e=/I/. It is vital for beginning readers to be able to link correspondences to their phonemes to explore the English language. To keep the student’s attention, it is important to make these phonemes meaningful for them. The meaningful representation they will use for this correspondence is that i_e is like talking to a pirate. Next, they will model a tongue tickler with i_e=/I/.

Materials:

  • Graphic image of pirate

  • Cover-up critter

  • Letter boxes and tiles for each student

  • Copy of “Nate’s Bike Ride” for each group

  • Worksheet for each student

  • Smart board, blackboard, or whiteboard for writing example words

  • Expo marker or chalk

 

  1. Say: It is important for us to learn the code that tells us how to pronounce words. Is everyone ready to learn? Great let’s get started. When we see the letter correspondence i_e in a word the sound it makes is the same sound someone talking to a pirate makes. Let’s say it all together, /I/ /I/ /I/. Now when we say /I/ we open our mouths quickly and then partially close them again. Now let’s see if you guys can hear /I/ in a word. Do you hear /I/ in bike? What about cake?

  2. Say: Let’s see if we can spell with our newly learned letter correspondence i_e=/I/. I’m going to use our letter boxes and letter tiles to spell the word bike. First, I need to figure out how many phonemes are in the word bike. /b/ /I/ /k/. Now that we know how many letterboxes, we need does anyone want to come spell this word? Now let’s try and spell crime. It has 4 phonemes which means 4 letterboxes. Who wants to try this one?

  3. Say: The next thing we are going to do is read some words aloud from the board. [ride, slime, sick, kite, spine, limp crime, tribe, site, stride]. Now that I know you guys understand this new correspondence, let’s read a new book in groups. The book is called “Nate’s Bike Ride” and it’s about 3 friends. Nate won’t leave the couch but his friends Jan and Tim and determined to get him out of the house. Will they be able to get Nate out of the house? What will they do if they do get Nate out of the house? Let’s read to find out.

  4. Say: Now let’s do a worksheet to see how well you guys and girls understand what we just learned. Look at the picture, use the correspondence we just learned to write out each word to match the picture.

 

 

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