Lesson Plan : RECOGNIZING VOWELS AND CONSONANTS
Teacher Name: | MANSI THAKRAL |
Grade: | Grade 3 |
Subject: | Literature Activities |
Topic: | Name Those Vowels and consonants. |
Content: | The vowels in written English are a, e, i, o, u and consonants b,c,d,f,g,h,j,k,l,m,n,p,q,r,s,t,v,w,x,y,z. |
Goals: | Students should be able to recognize and distinguish between vowels and consonants. This is an important step and will enhance reading and writing skills since almost all the words and all syllables in words contain at least one vowel. |
Objectives: | * Students will learn how to recognize and remember the vowels as a subset of letters, as distinguished from consonants. * Students will become familiar with capital and lower-case forms of vowels. Once students recognize the vowels in both capital and lower-case forms, the stage is set for learning rules and spelling patterns for short and long vowels, final vowels, unaccented vowels, silent vowels, and irregular spellings. |
Materials: | # Plastic letters, letter tiles, or alphabet cards (1 letter per card) # Optional: newspapers, crayons, highlighter markers, students�s name cards. |
Introduction: | Ask all the students to speak all the alphabets aloud. "A-Z" in the alphabetical order. Say, �Now that we can recognize our letters, let�s find out about two special group of letters we call vowels and consonants.� |
Development: | ACTIVITY-1 # Distribute capital letter cards A, E, I, O, U to six students, one card per child. # Tell the class that these are the vowel letters and that every word has at least one vowel letter in it. Ask the class to name the vowel letters written on the cards. ACTIVITY-2 # Distribute lower-case letter cards a, e, i, o, u to six other students and ask the students to name these lower-case letters. Ask the students holding the lower-case letters to stand next to their partner letters, forming the pattern Aa, Ee, Ii, Oo, Uu and ask the students to name this set of vowel letters. (Students should just name the letters without saying �capital� or �lower-case.� ACTIVITY-3 Set the twelve letter cards on the chalk ledge and call six students to select either a capital or lower-case letter from each set of partners. Ask the six to line up facing the class. (Example: A-e-i-O-U) Ask the class to name the set of vowels they see. ACTIVITY-4 |
Practice: | Repeat Step 6 with one or two more groups, forming other combination of capital and lower-case vowel sets. |
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