Rationale:
This lesson will help students learn to recognize /f/, the phoneme represented by F, in spoken words. Students will learn /f/ in spoken words by using a representation of the sound (a frightened cat hissing) and the symbol of F (representation with arms of frightened cat). Students will also learn to recognize this phoneme /f/ by deciphering the sound from rhyming one syllable words
Materials:
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primary paper and pencils
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Chart with tongue tickler “Fred’s fast cat’s fur feels fake!”
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Large prints of capital letter “F” and crayons
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Book: The Berenstain Bears Forget Their Manners (HarperCollins Children’s Books, 1985).
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Teacher list of phoneme awareness words to read out loud: FAT or CAT, FIT or BIT, IT or IF, LIFE or LIKE, FOG or DOG, FEEL or REEL
6. Printed teacher copy of tongue tickler story of Fred’s Frightened Cat
7. Assessment worksheet (link in references)
Procedure:
1. Say: Today we are going to learn how to read the letter f! There are many words with the letter f so today we are going to learn to say, read, and write the letter f. Today I am going to tell you the story of Fred’s frightened cat.
FRED’S FRIGHTENED CAT
Fred invited his friend, Frank, over for food. Fred showed Frank his cat, Faye, and walked him around his house. Frank and Fred walked to the kitchen for fries. Fred and Frank ate and laughed until they were full. They followed mom to the den to watch a movie. Frank walked over a blanket, when something bad happened. Frank frightened Faye the cat! Faye hissed “FFFFFF!” And ran fast and Frank says “Sorry! Fred’s fast cat’s fur feels fake!”
2. We are going to start by practicing to say /f/. Just as Faye did as she hisses, say it with me “/f/“. Notice how your mouth moves when you hiss “/f/“ and your teeth press to your bottom lip. That is how you say the letter f!
3. Let me model how you find the sound /f/ in SURF. I am going to say the word very slowly until I feel my teeth on my bottom lip like I am hissing. sss…. Uuurrr….ffff… There it is! Let’s all try it together now.
4. Let’s practice with our tongue tickler from the story of Fred’s frightened cat. After Faye hisses /f/ and runs away, Frank says “Fred’s fast cat’s fur feels fake!” (pull out chart) Let’s try it together. “Fred’s fast cat’s fur feels fake!” Now let’s find our sound by breaking off each word. Every time you you find the sound /f/ I want you to hold out your arms as if you are the frightened cat hissing. /F/red’s /f/ast cat’s /f/ur /f/eels /f/ake!
5. (pass out paper and pencil) Now you know how to say the letter F and we are going to practice writing it. For capital F, you are going to start at the top of the rooftop and draw a line all the way down to the side walk (model on board), then you are going to draw a horizontal line across the rooftop, and a second horizontal line across the fence. That is your capital F! I will walk around while you practice writing capital F 6 times. For lowercase f, you are going to start in the middle of the rooftop and the fence, working backwards with a curve and a line all the way down to the sidewalk. Then we are going to make a line across the fence through the letter. And that is your lowercase f! Practice these while I walk around again.
6. Call on students to show the frightened cat as they hear /f/. Do you hear /f/ in FAT or CAT? What about FIT or BIT? IT or IF? LIFE or LIKE? DOG or FOG? FEEL or REEL?
7. Now we are going to read a book where a family of bears forget their manners. How will this family learn to be friends again? Read The Berenstain Bears Forget Their Manners to the class. Ask the students to pick out the word(s) with the sound /f/ at the end of each sentence.
8. Pass out copies of capital F and have students make the letter into a picture of a word with the sound /f/ in it. Students can turn their letter into a fish, face, frog, fox, etc. Have students write the word of the picture they draw. Display work in classroom.
9. Evaluation (pass out assessment worksheet) Students will trace capital and lowercase f and color the pictures that begin with the sound /f/
REFERENCES:
Laura Anderson: “Bouncing the Ball with B!”
https://gelatoholic.wixsite.com/reading/copy-2-of-br-design-1
https://free4classrooms.com/free-beginning-sounds-worksheet-letter-f/