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Running Relays with R

Emergent Literacy Lesson 

By Jessica Campbell 

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Rationale: This lesson will help children identify /r/, the phoneme represented by R. This lesson  will help students recognize /r/ in spoken word by learning a sound analogy (Running Relays) and the letter symbol R, and apply phoneme /r/ in phonetic cues by distinguishing rhyming words from other beginning letters. 

 

Materials: 

  • Paper 

  • Pencil 

  • Tongue tickler: Running relays with Ricky and Rachel 

  • White board with markers 

  • Flashcards with RAN, WRITE, RED, RACE, RAT, WAY, RADIO

  • Draw track on whiteboard 

  • Book: Roller Coaster 

 

Procedures:

  1. Today we are going to learn about the letter r and the sound that makes up this letter. The lesson today is going to teach you all about how your mouth moves when you say r and what it feels like to write it down and use it in so many words today. 

  2. Let’s think about a time where we may have been running. I know that I have all seen y'all run on the playground so you know how the action of running feels. When you say the letter r it’s almost like you just got done running and you might be tired and you have to do lots of deep breaths and its almost like you are saying the r sound dragged out. 

  3. Now I am going to introduce two friends to help us with letter r, Ricky and Rachel. Now looking at these two names, they have one thing in common and that's the letter r. When I write these on the board I want someone to raise their hands and tell me where they see the letter r. 

  4. Now let's try a bit of a tongue tickler. Our friends Ricky and Rach have decided that they want to go outside today and run. To make their time outside even more fun they decided that they were going to relay back and forth taking turns. The tickler is: “Running Relays with Ricky and Rachel”. Now everyone lets say this tickler two more times. Now that we have down that lets stretch the /r/ that is “rrruning rrrelays with rrrricky and rrrachel”. Let’s also try and break the /r/ front the rest of the word, “/r/unning /r/elays with /r/icky and /r/achel. 

  5. Now if you look at the board I have several different kinds of flashcards which are ran, white, red, race, rat, way, radio and I want the classroom to be separated into two groups. The first group is Ricky and the second group is Rachel. The different flashcards are down the track and I want each group when it is your turn to identify the r that is seen in each word and we can see which racer gets there first. 

  6. Let's continue and look at something that is still fast like running and starts with an r, a roller coaster. We are to read and find out how fun and fast roller coasters can be. Have any of y’all ever been on a rollercoaster. 

  7. Finally I am going to give you a worksheet and you can color the big r just like how colorful the roller coaster was, then trace the letter r just to make sure that you know how to draw it. Finally you can then look at the words and pictures and try to find the letter r in them and color those pictures too. I will be walking around and y’all can hopefully share the different r’s that you found on your sheet. 

 

Worksheet: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Letter-R-Worksheets-3259656?st=d88115eaf906017ece971a6ed667cb98 

References: https://www.readingrockets.org/strategies/alphabet_matching 

Book: Frazee, Marla. Roller Coaster. Clarion Books, 2006

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