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Lesson 21

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Page 2 Phonemic Awareness Resources: American Pronunciation website (21.01) Australian Pronunciation website (21.02) British Pronunciation website (21.03) Under the Spreading Chestnut Tree PDF b+w sheet (21.04)Page 3 Phonemic Awareness Resources: Sound/Symbol Cards PDF color sheets (21.05) Page 4 Phonemic Awareness Resources: The Ugly Umbrella website: PDF b+w book (21.06)Page 5 Phonemic Awareness Page 6 Sound/Letter Relationship Resources: Starfall Video for /u/ website (21.07) Resources: Sound/Symbol Cards PDF color sheets (21.05)Page 7 Sound/Letter Relationship /u/ Writing Sheet PDF b+w sheets (21.08)Page 8 Blending Resources: Word Cards PDF b+w sheets (21.09)Page 9 Special Words Resources: Special Word Cards PDF b+w sheets (21.10) Decoding Practice Sheet website: PDF b+w sheet (21.11)0 Decoding Resources: The Mutt and the Bug website: PDF b+w book (21.12) Read Aloud The Ugly Umbrella website: PDF b+w book (21.06) Order Reading A-Z website (21.13)

Week 5 Lesson 21: Short Vowel-u /u/

Lesson Plans: Short Vowel-u /u/ 2

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PHONEMIC AWARENESS

• Let’s start by learning how the vowel short-u should be sounded.

•To make the / u / sound, the tongue should be in mid mouth, lips unrounded and face relaxed.

• Use the link in the online lessons to go to the Iowa University website and click on the triangle to hear how the phoneme short vowel / u / should be sounded.

• This sound is very different from the vowel long-u, which is sounded /eu/ as in university.

PHONEMIC AWARENESS

• Demonstrate how the word “under” has the / u / sound at the start of the word.

• Download the SongSheet “Under

the Spreading Chestnut Tree.”

• Read out, or sing the song, “Under the Spreading Chestnut

Tree,” emphasizing the / u / sounds at the beginning of the word “under.”

• Tell the students they are goingto learn the / u / sound.

American PronunciationUniversity of Iowa

Australian PronunciationGet Reading Right

British PronunciationPhonics International

You must have Flash 7 or higherplug-in to use these pages.

Song SheetUnder the Spreading Chestnut TreeSongSheet from KIDiddles




Action for /u/To help students remember phonemes, we associate an action with the sound. The action is putting up an umbrella.

PHONEMIC AWARENESS

•Pretend to put up an umbrella and say the word “up.”

• Ask students to do the same. Tell them to use this movement when they say or hear the /u/ sound.

• Tell the students that the word “up” begins with the / u / sound.

PHONEMIC AWARENESS•Get ReadingLessons sound/symbol

card 21.• Show the front of the card and ask

what is in the picture. Ask what sound “umbrella“ begins with.

• Ask students to listen for the / u / sound and repeat it in the word “umbrella,” and do the “up” motion as they say the / u / sound.yy

Sound/Symbol CardsWeek 5 CardsPrint on a thick paper or card. Fold the sheet down the center on the dotted line. Cut the cards into four and glue. For extra durability, you can laminate the cards.




PHONEMIC AWARENESS

• Emphasize the / u / sounds in the story.

• Ask students to listen for the / u / sounds.

• Tell them that you will finish the story at the end of the lesson.

• If you are not a member of Reading A-Z, compose a short passage with a lot of words beginning, or containing the / u / sound.

• There is a list of words to use for / u / in the online lesson plans.

Members can download this book from the Reading A-Z website.

• Read a few pages of “The Ugly Umbrella.”

PHONEMIC AWARENESS• Tell the students that you are going to say some words

that begin with the / u / sound and some that do not.

• Ask them to make the “up” action and say / u / when they hear the sound at the beginning of the word.

• Here are the words:

ink, umbrella, ant, ugly, on, underpants, end, us

• Be sure to leave plenty of time between saying each word for the students to respond.

Read Aloud BookThe Ugly UmbrellaFrom Reading A-Z, if you are a member.You can also make up your own stories which emphasize the /u/ sound.

More words to use that have the /u/ sound at the beginning of words:up, under, uncle, upset




PHONEMIC AWARENESS

• Say the word hut stressing the / u / in the middle of the

word. Say that in this word the / u / sound is in the middle.

• Tell the students that you are going to say some words that have the / u / sound in the middle and some that do not.

• Ask them to make the “up” movement and say / u / when they hear the sound in the middle of a word.

• Here are the words:

nut, dig, rug, ran, cut, bus, pen, hut

• Leave sufficient time for the students to respond.

PHONEMIC AWARENESS•Tell the students they should make the “up” movement and

say / u / when they hear the / u / sound in the middle of a word in the verse you are going to read them.

•Here’s the verse:

I feel as snug as a bug in a rug,I feel as happy as a duck in a truck.I feel as lucky as a skunk in a bunk.I am a mutt; a pup in a cup.

• Repeat the verse until the students can identify all the middle / u / sounds in the verse.

More words to use that have the /u/ sound in the middle of words:bud, bug, bump, bun, but, buzz, cub, cup, duck, dug, fun, gum, hug, hush, jug, mud, mug, pup, rub, run, sum, sun, tub, tug

Another verse to help teach the /u/ sound

The pup must run in the sun,To rub his head in the mud is fun.He loves to hunt a bug.He drinks water from a mug.




SOUND/LETTER RELATIONSHIP

• Go to the Starfall website page for / u / .

• Play the video through to the end or have the students play the video.

• The Starfall videos last about 3 or 4 minutes and have quizzes at the end of each phoneme covered.

• Don’t be tempted to play any of the other Starfall videos at this time.


• Point to the small u and say this is how we write the letter for the sound / u / .

• Point to the capital U and say this is how we write big / u / which is for important words like people’s names.

• Point to the word “umbrella” and say this is how we write the word “umbrella.” Point out the letter u and say this is how we write the / u / sound at the beginning of the word “umbrella.”

• Give out the sound/symbol card for / u / .

• Show the back of the card.

Starfall websiteStarfall Video for /u/

Sound/Symbol CardsWeek 5 Cards





• Point to the small u and say this is how we write the letter for the sound / u / .

• Point to the capital U and say this is how we write big / u / which is for important words like people’s names.

• Model the formation of the letter u for the students.

• Give out the KIDiddles writing practice sheet for u U.

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• Have students write the letter u in the air as they watch you write it.

• Have students trace the letters on the practice worksheets with their fingers.

• Ask the students to practice writing the small u and the large U on the practice worksheets.


Writing Practice Sheets/u/Writing Practice Sheet




•Using a Word Card, point to the first letter of the word and say the sound.

•Then pass your finger to the next letter and say the sound, and so on.

•For example, for the word fun say

fff-uu-nn.

•Do this again more quickly until the word is pronounced naturally.

BLENDING

•Blending is the skill of sounding out letters all through a word into a natural sounding word.

Cut where indicated to make eight cards

BLENDING

• Say that hut has the /u/ sound in the middle of the word.

• Ask a student to point to the letter that stands for /u/.

• Sound out hut while running a

finger under each letter : /h/u/t/.

• Say the word quickly hut.

• Have the students sound out the word with you.

hut• Show the Word Card for hut.

Word CardsLesson 21 Word Cards




SPECIAL WORDS

• Have students read it with you.

• Repeat with the card for play.

• Review the other special words on the word cards.

• Tell students that they will be learning two new Special Words. They will need to recognize these words and read them quickly.

• Hold up the Special Word Card foroff, and read the word.

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offplay

DECODING

• From the Reading A-Z practice sheet, have students sound out the decodable words in rows 1 and 2.

• Have the students quickly read the Special Words in rows 3 and 4.

• Then they should read the phrases and sentences in rows 5 and 6.

• If students are having difficulty, provide more practice before reading the decodable book.

If you are not a Reading A-Z member, make a sheet similar to the one above. Use the words listed in the online lesson plan.

• Before reading the decodable book, students should practice reading the words that are in the book.

If t R di

Special Word SheetsSpecial Word Cards

Reading A-ZDecoding Practice SheetClick on “Lesson Resources”




If you are not a Reading A-Z member, compose a decodable passage using the words in the online version of this lesson. Get the online lesson by clicking on the “View” icon under the video.

DECODING - (Did It Fit)

• Read the first page together as you model how to sound out decodable words and read Special Words quickly.

• If students are able to read the book on their own, have them continue to read independently.

• If you think students need more support, continue to read with them.

• After reading, ask volunteers to read their favorite sentences.

• Give students their decodable books or reading passages.

READ-ALOUD (Isabel’s Invitation)

• Ask students to listen for all the /u/ sounds in the story.

The next lesson will cover the consonant /l/ as

in lion

• End the lesson by completing the reading of “The Ugly Umbrella.”

• If you are not a member of Reading A-Z, get “Hunches and Bunches” by Dr. Seuss, “The Cut-ups” by James Marshall or “The Ugly Duckling” by Harriet Ziefert, from the library; or compose a short passage using the list of /u/ words in the online lessons.

Decodable BookThe Mutt and the BugIf not a Reading A-Z member, make up a passage, choose from the following words:hut, mud, fun, bug, cup, bun, cut,nut, tug, sun, bus, sum, bud, us, up, pup, run, rug, cub, gum, off, play, do, he, like, said, she, the, a, I, and

Read Aloud BookThe Ugly UmbrellaFrom Reading A-Z, if you are a subscriber.You can also make up your own stories which emphasize the /u/ sound, or get the recommended trade book from the library.

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