Emergent literacy design

Huff like a Hot Hound with H

Rationale: This lesson will help children identify /h/, the phoneme represented by H. Students will learn to recognize /h/ in spoken words by learning a sound analogy (panting) and the letter symbol H, practice finding /h/ in words, and apply phoneme awareness with /h/ in phonetic cue reading by distinguishing rhyming words from beginning letters.

Materials: Animation of this panting puppy on a google slide, primary paper and pencil; google slide with tongue tickler "Harry the hound had to hug a huge human"; drawing paper and crayons; Old Hat New Hat by Stan and Jan Berenstain (Random House, 1970); word cards with HOG, HIT, TONE, HEAL, SPIT, and HIDE; assessment worksheet identifying pictures with /h/ (url in references).

Procedures:1. Say: We have a secret code. We must know how our mouth moves for each letter to crack it. Today we're going to see how our mouth moves for /h/. H spells /h/. When you pronounce the letter H you can feel how you have to push air out of your mouth, right? You try.

2. Show gif on google slide. Say: Let's pant like a dog /h/, /h/, /h/. Do you see how we are forcing the air out of our mouths? Our mouths do not not open very wide to pronounce /h/ and it sounds like a hot puppy panting.

3. Say: Let me show you how to find /h/ in the word hide. I'm going to start by pronouncing the first letter Hhhh. There it is! I felt the force of air come out of my mouth.

4.(Show tongue tickler on slide) Let's try a tongue tickler! Harry the hound was stranded for days and days looking for his best friend: a little boy named Sal. Harry crossed rivers and streams, dirt and gravel paths, and even ran into a large grizzly bear that gave him a fright. After many long and hard days, Harry looked across the way to see that he had made it back home to his pal, Sal, and just had to give him a hug. Harry the hound had to hug a huge human. There’s our tongue tickler! Let’s say it three times together. Harry the hound had to hug a huge human (x3). Now say it again, and this time, stretch the /h/ at the beginning of the words. "Hhharry the hhhound hhhad to hhhug a hhhuge hhhuman” This time, break it off the word: "/h/ arry the /h/ ound /h/ ad to /h/ ug a /h/ uge /h/ uman. Nice work!

5. [Ask the student to take out primary paper and pencil]. Letter H spells /h/. Capital H looks like a puppy peeking through the fence. Let's try writing lowercase letter h. Start right below the rooftop, then once you hit the sidewalk go back up to the fence, round the edge and go back down to the sidewalk. This will look like a lowercase l, /l/ attached to an upside down, lowercase u, /u/. Once you are done, let me see. Then we can race to see how many h’s you can write in one minute.

6. Say: let’s practice. Do you hear /h/ in hood or blue? Horse or frog? Cold or hot? Roof or house ? hush or loud? Say: Let's see if the mouth moves /h/ in some words. Pant like a puppy if you hear /h/: Heat, helps, her, house, with, warmth, which, is, hot.

7. Say: "Let's look at a book with some /h/ words. Pull out Old Hat New Hat and find all of the words with /h/ in them. Old Hat New Hat is a book about Brother Bear who wants a hat that fits him perfectly. He tries on a bunch of hats to find the perfect one. Will he find the perfect hat for him? We will have to read to find out. Ask children if they can think of other words with /h/. Ask them to draw how those things look, whether it be a hog, horse, house, hose, etc. Display their work.

8. Show HOUSE and model how to decide if it is house or mouse. Say: The H tells me to pant like a puppy, /h/, so this word is hhh-ouse, house. Now you try: HOSE: hose or nose? NOTE: note or host? SHADE: shade or sun? HARM: harm or safe? SHY: loud or shy?

9. For assessment, distribute the worksheet. Students color the pictures that begin with H.

References:

http://wp.auburn.edu/rdggenie/

Assessment worksheet: https://www.superteacherworksheets.com/phonics-beginningsounds/letter-h_WFQTT.pdf

H is hhhhhot!! Drop your slice! By Kelly Alaimo

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