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Vinnie Visits the Volcano

 

 

 

 

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

 

Materials: Primary paper and pencil, chart with “Vinnie visits the vivacious volcano”, drawing paper and crayons, My Mouth is a Volcano by Julia Cook, word cards with VOW, LIVE, VISIT, FIVE, VIEW, VIE, MOVE, assessment worksheet identifying pictures with /v/. 

 

Procedures: 1. Say today we will be learning about the letter /v/. We will learn that /V/ and /v/ make the same sound. Today we are going to work on spotting the mouth move /v/. We spell /v/ with the letter V. When an engine starts it goes “va va va vroom”

 

2. Let’s pretend an engine is about to start (clap hands together when you say v sound) va va va vroom. Notice what our mouth does when we say /v/. When we say /v/ we blow air out between our top teeth and bottom lip. 

 

3. Let me show you how to find /v/ in the word MOVE. I’m going to stretch out the word move in slow motion and listen for the /v/ sound an engine makes: mmm-ooo-vvv-e. Now slower: mmmm-ooooo-vvvv-e. There it was! I felt my top teeth touch my bottom lip and push air out. I can hear the engine start /v/ in move. 

 

4. Now let’s try a tongue tickler (on chart). “Vinnie Visited the Vivacious Volcano”. Let’s say it together three times. Now say it again and this time stretch out the /v/ at the beginning of the words. “VVVVinnie vvvvisited the vvvvivvvvvacious vvvolcano” Try it again and this time break it off the word. /V/innie /v/isited the /v/i/v/acious /v/olcano. 

 

5. (Have students take out primary paper and pencil) We use letter V to spell /v/. Capital V looks like an upside-down open triangle. Let’s try the lowercase v. Start just below the rooftop and draw a small upside-down triangle without a line on top. Like an arrow facing down. I want to see everybody’s v’s. When I come put a sticker on your paper I want you to draw nine more just like that. 

 

6. Call on students to answer and ask them how they knew. Do you hear /v/ in live or stop? Time or vase? Vile or tire? Rave or hope? Say: Let’s see if you can spot the mouth move /v/ in some words. Clap your hands together each time you hear the /v/ sound in the words: hive, vast, over, vet, clove. 

 

7. Give book talk on My Mouth is a Volcano by Julia Cook. “Do you ever feel like you need to talk and if you do not get out what you want to say your mouth will erupt like a volcano? Louis feels like that sometimes too. He feels that all of his words are very important, and he needs to say what he is thinking. Will Louis’s urge to always talk get him in trouble? We will have to read the book to find out.” 

 

8. Ask students to think of words that start with V and color a picture. I will hang up their artwork in the classroom. 

 

9. Show the word VAN and model how to decide if it is van or tan: The V tells me to think of a car engine starting /v/, so this word is vvv-an, van. You try some: VEER: veer or deer? VASE: vase or case? VOWEL: vowel or towel? 

 

10. For assessment, I will handout a worksheet. Students are asked to color practice writing their v’s and color pictures where the item starts with v. I will call on students individually to read the phonetic cue words from step 9.

 

References: 

Murray,Bruce:https://auburn.instructure.com/courses/1354415/files/search?preview=177838113&search_term=EL+

 

Wilcox,Emily– https://sites.google.com/site/mswilcoxsreadinglessons/home/emergent-literacy-design-tttick-tttock-with-t-s

 

Assessment Worksheet– https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Letter-V-Worksheets-3265538

 

My Mouth is a Volcano Read Aloud – https://youtu.be/CcvfIVyQA6E

 

My Mouth is a Volcano book by Julia Cook – https://www.amazon.com/My-Mouth-Volcano-Julia-Cook/dp/1931636850/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2A6SECWOF2JC1&dchild=1&keywords=my+mouth+is+a+volcano&qid=1625115167&sprefix=my+mouth+is+%2Caps%2C164&sr=8-1

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