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Rationale: This lesson will focus on helping children recognize the phoneme /t/, represents T. They will be able to recognize /t/ in spoken words using the meaningful representation of a ticking clock. Students will practice finding /t/ in phonetic cue reading by distinguish rhyming words and beginning letters from one another.

 

Materials: white board, dry erase markers, primary paper, pencils, chart with tongue tickler, “Tommy and Terry tip-toed to the tippy top”, large notecards with FOOT, ROCK and TURTLE on them, Dr. Suess’ ABCs book

 

Procedures:

1. Say: Our language is a secret code. It can be hard to know what letters stand for. Our mouth moves a certain way to make the words we say. Today we are going to learn /t/ (write t on the board) and the way the mouth moves when we say /t/.

2. The letter T sounds like /t/. This is the sound that a clock makes when it’s ticking. Lets all use our figures to tick like a clock, /t/, /t/, /t/. When we make the /t/ sound, your tongue pushes the back of your front teeth. We make the /t/ sound when we push air through our teeth.

3. Let’s see if we can find the letter t in the word football. I am going to stretch the word out super slow. Listen for the /t/ sound. Fff-oooo-ttttttt-bbb-aa-llll (repeat). The /t/ sound is right in the middle of the word. Our tongue touches our back teeth and pushes out air to make the /t/ sound!

4. Dr. Suess wrote a book about all the letters. Let’s see what he says about the letter T! Read page 46 aloud. Have students repeat the tongue tickler from the book, “Ten tired turtles on a tuttle-tuttle tree.” Good job!

5. Now we are going to try another tongue tickler (present poster with tongue tickler)! Listen for the /t/ sounds in each of the words! “Tommy and Terry tip-toed to the tippy top!” Now lets try it together: “Tommy and Terry Tip-toed to the tippy top.”

6. I am going to show you notecards with some words on them. I want you to give me a thumbs up if you hear the letter T in the word and a thumbs down if you do not.

   1. Do you hear the letter T in foot? Yes, we hear the T sound at the end of the word ffff-ooooo-tttt! What about rock? NO! There is no T in rock. Do you hear the letter T in the word turtle? Yes! Tttt-urr-ttt-lll-eee there is a T in Turtle at the beginning and the middle!

7. What other words do you know that have the /t/ sound in them?

   1. Help children come up with about 5 words with T and write them on the board.

      1. Ex. Tree, tall, tickle, toe, toad, test

8. When we write T we draw one tall line from the rooftop to the sidewalk and then and then give it a top along the roof(demonstrate writing a few Ts on lines similar to the primary paper and have students take out a pencil and primary paper and have them do the same). This is the uppercase T. We also write a lowercase T by drawing one tall line from the roof to the sidewalk with a tiny cross through the middle on the fence (demonstrate the lowercase t and have students practice writing lowercase t).

9. I am now going to pass out a worksheet. I want you to color all the pictures that start with the letter T.

   1. Worksheet:

 

Reference: Jaimia Griffin,Tick Tock with T. https://jaimagriffith.wixsite.com/jaima-griffith/emergent-literacy-guide

Worksheet: http://www.tlsbooks.com/lettert_1.pdf

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Questions? 

Contact: Delaney O'Brien

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