Icky Piggy
By: Karen Harris
Rationale: This lesson teaches children about the long vowel correspondence i=/i/. In order to be able to read, children must learn to recognize the spellings that map word pronunciations. In this lesson children will learn to recognize, spell, and read words containing the spelling i. They will learn a meaningful representation (/i/= show your teeth) they will spell and read words containing this spelling in a Letterbox lesson, and read a decodable book that focuses on the correspondence i=/i/.
Materials: Paper, i worksheet, pen, letter box, letter tiles [I,c,h,k,l,m,n,p,s], and list of words [it, hill, pick, milk, spin, shift], and decodable book “Tin Man Fix It”.
Procedures:
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Say: Today we will be learning about i, i says /i/. I want you to say the “stinky pink pig”, but when you say “icky” I want you to twist up your nose and shake your hands as if that icky piggy is right here! (Together we say): “The icky piggy!”. Did you notice how when you say /i/ you show your teeth?
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Say: To learn how to spell with i, we need to be able to identify it. I hear /i/ in big, but I don’t hear it in large. I am going to say a few words and if you hear /i/, I want to see your teeth and your “icky hand shake”. Do you hear /i/ in hit, knock, pitch, throw, wig, hair?
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Say: I am going to show you how to spell /i/. /i/ is spelled with the letter i. Here is an example of spelling a word with i. Spin, the top will spin on the table. To spell spin in letterboxes, first I need to know how many phonemes I have in the word so I stretch it out and count: /s/p//i/ /n/. I need 4 boxes. I hear /i/ before the /n/ at the end, so I will put i in the third box and n in the last box. Now, I hear /s/ right at the beginning. I will put an s in the first box. /s/ /p/ /p/ /p/ /i/ /n/. I hear /p/ right after the /s/, so I will place a p in the second box.
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Say: Now it is your turn. I will have you spell some words in the letterbox yourself. The first word is it, you only need two boxes for it. It can describe something without saying the name, “My doll is my favorite toy. I love to play with it. (Observe spelling and correct if necessary. If spelling is wrong, explain what they spelled.) For the next word, you will need 3 boxes. The word is hill, a hill is a part of land that goes up then back down, “The hill is covered in flowers”. (Observe spelling and correct if necessary. If spelling is wrong, explain what they spelled.) You will also need 3 boxes for your next
word. The word is pick, “Sally wants to pick flowers for her friends”. (observe spelling and correct if necessary. If spelling is wrong, explain what they spelled). The last word will need 4 letter boxes, milk, “The baby calf drinks milk”. (observe spelling and correct if necessary. If spelling is wrong, explain what they spelled).
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Say: “Now we are going to read a harder word. Do you hear the /i/ sound in the word shift? Let’s start by modeling. /Sh/ /i/ /f/ /t/. We know the vowel /i/ is in the word shift, so we will put /i/ in the second letter box. What comes before the /i/ sound in shift? I hear shhhhhh like someone is shushing me. So /sh/ will be in the first letter box. What comes after the /i/ in shift? Do you hear the fffff sound like we are brushing our teeth? Good! That goes after the /i/ so we will put /f/ in the third letter box. What sound do you hear at the end of the word Shift? Tttttt- Good! It is a /t/ sound, so t will go in the fourth letter box. Let’s sound that out all together now. Shhhhhh-i-ffff-tttt. Good Job! Now I want you to read a list of words (show list with it, will pick, milk, and spin).
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Introduce “Tin Man Fix It” with this book talk: Tim is the tin man. He is walking when Sid, a big kid, on a skate board hits Tim and Tim falls apart. What will happen next? Will Tim the tin man be fixed?
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Say: What happened to Tim the tin man? Jim fixed him? Yay! That was an exciting story! Now to review i, I have a worksheet, but I want you to only color in the shapes that have i=/i/ words. [Collect worksheet and assess students’ understanding].
References:
Tin Man Fix It https://auburn.instructure.com/courses/1097859/pages/Educational%20Insights%20decodable%20books
Worksheet: https://www.education.com/worksheet/article/short-sounds-i/
Geri Murray “Oh, I didn’t know” https://sites.google.com/site/readingwritingconnection/beggingreadingdesign
