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EMERGENT LITERACY

Vikings Voyage with V

Rationale: This lesson will help children identify /v/, the phoneme represented by V. Students will learn to recognize /v/ in spoken words by learning a meaning representation (vaahhh yells the Viking), and the letter symbol V, practice finding /v/ in words, and apply phoneme awareness with /v/ in phonetic cue reading by distinguishing rhyming words from beginning letters.


Materials: Primary pencil and paper; chart with “Vikings voyage through the valley vigorously”; word cards with: VAN, VASE, VENT, and VEIL; crayons and assessment worksheet


Procedures:

1) Say: The rules of words can be very tricky to learn.  It may feel like we have a superpower being able to break the code.  Each letter in our written language has a sound and being able to know each sound means you have the superpower. Our mouth forms different shapes for each letters sound. Today we are going to learn how our mouth forms with the letter /v/ which we spell with V.  The V looks like a valley which the Vikings yell vah through.

2) Let’s pretend to be Vikings, /v/ /v/ /v/ [The noise Vikings yell] Notice that your teeth bite your bottom lip. Feel the vibration the /v/ makes when air goes through your teeth and lip.

3) Let me show you how to find the /v/ in the word INVITE. I going to stretch invite out in slow motion and listen for my [vah]. Inn-vv-itte, slower, IIII-nn-vvvv-iitttee. We found it! We can feel our bottom lip touch our top teeth and vibrate together. I can feel the [vah] /v/ in invite

4) Let’s try a tongue tickler [on chart] “Vikings voyage through the valley vigorously.” Everybody let’s say it together and make the gesture of a Viking [a fist in the air]. Now say it again but stretch the /v/ at the beginning of the words with the letter V; “Vvvvvikings vvvvvvoyage through the vvvvvalley vvvvigorously.” Try it again, and this time break it off the word: “/V/ikings /v/oyage through the /v/alley /v/igorously.”

5) [Have students take out primary paper and pencil]. We use letter V to spell /v/. Capital V looks like the bottom of a heart. Let's write the lowercase letter v. Start at the fence. Make a slightly slanted line down to the sidewalk. Then make another slanted line going back up to the fence slanting the other way.

6) Show the word card VAN and model how to decide if it is van or tan. The V tells me to vah, /v/, so this word is vvv-an, van. You try some [show the rest of word cards]: VENT: vent or tent? VASE: mace or vase? VEIL: veil or tail? [Have images of words on the cards]

7) Allow students to use /v/ in a sentence or give example words with the letter V.

8) [Book talk about The Viper, by Lisa Thiesing] In this book Peggy the pig enjoys a simple, carefree life until the day she gets a mysterious phone call. “I am zee Viper. I vill come in 1 year.”  After consulting her dictionary, Peggy is horrified to discover that a viper is a poisonous snake.  As the book takes us through Peggy’s year, she gets more and more nervous, especially as zee Viper keeps calling to remind her of his visit.  At the end of the book we find out that zee Viper is a friendly dachshund with a foreign accent.  “I am zee Viper! I have come to vipe your vindows!”

9)  For assessment, distribute the worksheet. Students are to

color the pictures that begin with V. Have students read out the words of the images they colored.


References:

Worksheet: https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&ved=0ahUKEwjbuqvVgMLWAhXFeCYKHQs-Cq4QjRwIBw&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pinterest.co.uk%2Fgillette92%2Fletter-v%2F&psig=AFQjCNE0B0dbp1brNdlRgAr6ArUZRT26_A&ust=1506486174818601


Book talk: https://www.themeasuredmom.com/8-letter-v-books/


Reading Genie: http://www.auburn.edu/academic/education/reading_genie/realizations/pooleel.htm

http://www.auburn.edu/academic/education/reading_genie/awakenings/bonnercel.htm


Image: https://www.123rf.com/photo_25469714_cartoon-viking-ship-sailing.html

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