Stomp your feet with D
An Emergent Literacy Lesson
By: Tindall Morring
Rationale: This lesson will help students recognize /d/, the phoneme represented by D. Students will learn to recognize /d/ in spoken words by learning a helpful representation (stomping your feet like a dinosaur) and the letter symbol D, practice finding /d/ in words, and apply phoneme awareness in words with /d/ in phonetic cue reading.
Materials: Pencil and paper, tongue twister “Dan the dinosaur danced in the desert”; word cards with DATE, RAKE, DOG, DIP, PAN, DAN; worksheet identifying pictures that begin with d. (link at the bottom), “One Duck Stuck” a Mucky Ducky Counting Book.
Procedures: 1. Today we are going to work on spotting the mouth movement /d/. The word dinosaur starts with the letter D and when a dinosaur stomps their big feet the sound it makes is /d/.
2. Lets pretend to stomp our feet like a big dinosaur. (Act out stomping) When we say /d/ we make that deep sound form the back of our throat and using out tongue that sounds like big feet stomping.
3. Let me show you how to find /d/ in the word pad. If I stretch the word out and say it very slowly, I want you to listen for the dinosaur stomping his feet. Pppp a-a-a-d-d. Do you hear it at the end of the word pad? I can hear the /d/ in the end of pad.
4. Lets try a tongue twister, “Dan the dinosaur danced in the desert.” Lets say it a few times together. Now this time say it on your own and stretch out the /d/ at the beginning of the words. Dddan the dddinosaur dddanced in the dddesert.” Say it one more time and this time break the /d/ off the words: /d/ an the /d/ inosaur /d/ anced in the /d/ esert.
5. Give the student a piece of paper and pencil. We use the letter D to spell /d/. Capital D goes up to the rooftop and makes a semi circle shape. Lowercase d starts at the sidewalk, makes a straight line all the way up to the rooftop, comes straight back down to the fence and then makes a loop down the sidewalk. Watch me and then I want you to show me how you write the letter D.
6. Now we are going to read a book called, “One Duck Stuck”. The book mentions talk many different animals that begin with the letter D. After we finish reading have the student write down their favorite animal form the book.
7. You will show the word DOG and model how to decide if it is dog or log: The D tells me to stomp my feet, /d/, so this word is ddd-og, dog. Your turn to try some now: DIP: dip or rip? DATE: date or rate? DAN: dan or fan?
8. Assessment; handout the worksheet. Students must draw a line form reach of the dogs to another picture on the worksheet that begins with the letter D.
References: assessment worksheet- http://www.kidzone.ws/kindergarten/d-begins1.htm
Book: https://www.themeasuredmom.com/books-for-preschoolers-for-letter-d/
Bailey Black, Popping with P!- https://beb0036.wixsite.com/mysite/emergent-literacy-deisgn
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