Emergent Literacy

Anchor 1

Pop Popcorn with P

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

Materials: Primary paper and pencil; chart with "Peter popped the popcorn perfectly"; drawing paper and crayons; Pinkalicious and the Perfect Present, 2014); word cards with PIG, APPLE, PARTY, PERSON, PAINT, and PARROT; assessment worksheet identifying pictures with /P/ (URL below).

Procedures:

1. Say: Our written language is a secret code. The tricky part is learning what letters stand for—the mouth moves we make as we say words. Today we're going to work on spotting the mouth move /P/. We spell /P/ with the letter P. P looks like a sideways pan, and /p/ sounds like popping popcorn.

2. Let's pretend to pop popcorn, /p/, /p/, /p/. [Pantomime fingers popping like a popcorn kernel] Notice where your lips go together like a pop? (Touching lower lip). When we say /p/, we blow air between out top teeth and lower lip after touching our lips together.

3. Let me show you how to find /p/ in the word champ. I'm going to stretch champ out in super slow motion and listen for my toothbrush. Cccchhh-aaa-mmm-pppp Slower: Cccchhhhhh-aaaaaa-mmmmmmm-pppppppp There it was! I felt my lips pop and blow air. Popping /p/ is in champ.

4. Let's try a tongue tickler [on chart]. Peter wants a snack. He is trying to think of a snack that will satisfy his salty craving. He decides to pop some popcorn in a piping hot pan. He does it perfectly. Here’s our tickler: " Peter popped popcorn perfectly." Everybody say it three times together. Now say it again, and this time, stretch the /f/ at the beginning of the words. " Pppeter ppppopppped pppoppppcorn pppperfectly." Try it again, and this time break it off the word: /p/eter /p/opped /p/o/p/corn /p/erfectly.

5. [Have students take out primary paper and pencil]. We use letter P to spell /p/. Capital P looks like a bubble wand, that you use to blow a bubble and watch it pop! Let's write the lowercase letter p. Start at the fence. Draw a line that goes down a little past the sidewalk and into the ditch, then come back up to the top of the line and make a little sideways cup that stops and starts on the original line that starts at the fence. I want to see everybody's p. After I put a smile on it, I want you to make nine more just like it.

6. Call on students to answer and tell how they knew: Do you hear /p/ in purple or orange? police or officer? keep or give? Lift or drop? teeth or lip? Say: Let's see if you can spot the mouth move /p/ in some words. Pop popcorn with your hands if you hear /p/ bark, power, puppy, bug, peace, trap, to, for, pink, people.

7. Say: "Let’s look at a fun book, Pinkalicious and the Perfect Present”. This is a story about a girl who has the most perfect present, but you will have to read it to find out what the present is! Every time you hear /p/ in the book, make the popping gesture with your hands. Then at the end, you can draw your own perfect present!

8. Show PORK and model how to decide if it is pork or fork: The P tells me pop popcorn, /p/, so this word is ppp-ork, pork. You try some: POT: pot or hot? SHIP: is it boat or ship? PEAR: is it pear or share? BEEP: is it bear or beep? PLANE: is it a plane or shake?

9. For assessment, distribute the worksheet. Students color the pictures that begin with F. Call students individually to read the phonetic cue words from step #8.

Reference Murray, Bruce (2012). Making sight words: Teaching word recognition from phoneme awareness to fluency. Ronkonkoma NY: Linus. p. 110, 294.

Related design: Bruce Murray, Brush Your Teeth with F https://murraba.wixsite.com/readinglessons/emergent-literacy

Kann, Victoria. Pinkalicious and the Perfect Present. Harper, 2014.

Assessment worksheet: https://twistynoodle.com/circle-the-words-that-start-with-the-letter-p-coloring-page/

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