M says /m/ Yummy in my Tummy

Emergent Literacy Design

Haley Miller

 

 

Rationale: this lesson will help children identify /m/, the phoneme represented by M. Students will learn to recognize /m/ in spoken words by learning meaningful representation (rubbing tummy because something taste good) and the letter symbol M, practicing finding /m/ in words, and apply phoneme awareness with /m/ in phonetic cue reading by distinguishing rhyming words from beginning letters.

 

Materials:

1.Primary paper and pencil

2. Chart with “On Mondays Michael’s mother Mary mostly mopped”

3. YouTube video

4. Drawing paper and crayons

5. Louis Ehlert’s Eating the Alphabet (1989)

6. Word cards with  MOON, MOM, MAP, MAN, MIX, TAKE, and FIND

7. Assessment worksheet connecting the lines to pictures with /m/ (URL below).

 

Procedures:

1. Say: our written language is like a secret code. In order to understand this code we must know all the letters and what sounds they make- the mouth moves we make as we say words. Today we’re going to look at the letter M. We will look at the mouth move /m/. We spell /m/ with the letter M. /m/ sounds like the noise you make when you eat something yummy. /mmmmm/

 

2. Let’s pretend to eat something yummy and rub our tummy /m/,/m/, /m/. Notice where your lips are, they come together and cave in? (Point to lips). When we say /m/ our lips come together and the sound comes out between them.

 

3. Let me show you how to find /m/ in the word lamp. I’m going to stretch lamp out in a super slow motion and listen for the “yummy in my tummy” sound.  Lll-a-a-amp. Slower: Llll-a-a-a-mmm-p. There it was! I felt my lips come together and cave in. I can feel the “yummy in my tummy” in lamp.

 

4. Let’s try a tongue twister (on chart). “On Mondays Michael’s mother Mary mostly mopped.” Everybody say it three times together. Now say it again, and this time stretch the /m/ out at the beginning of words. “ On Mmmmondays Mmmmichael’s mmmmother Mmmmary mmmostly mmmopped.” Try it again, and this time break the /m/ off the word: “on /m/ondays /m/ ichael’s /m/ other /m/ ary /m/ ostly /m/ opped.  Awesome!

 

5. (Have students take out primary paper and pencil). We use letter M to spell /m/. Capital M looks like the golden arches of McDonalds’s. Let’s write the lowercase m. Start at the fence and go down to the sidewalk, hump around, and hump around. I want to see everyone’s m. Once I see your m and put a sticker on it, I want you to make 9 more lowercase m’s.

 

6. Now we will watch the M song video to review what we have learned so far. (URL below) (Play video)

 

7. Have students say yummy if they hear the letter /m/ in a word or gross if they don’t hear /m/.  Do you hear m in top or mop? Mom or Dad? Calm or cook? Some or soft? Let’s see if you can spot the mouth move /m/ in some words. Rub your tummy if you hear /m/: movie, bird, mouth, mile, chair, calm, dream, fake, make.

 

8. “Let’s look at an alphabet book. This book is called Eating the Alphabet. There are many different foods that start with many different letters. Which food do you think he will use for the letters? Louis Ehlert tells us about healthy foods that start with the letter M: melon and mango.” Read pg. 16, that illustrates the letter. Ask students if they can think of any other words that start with /m/. Ask them to make up other food items that start with the /m/. Then have them write it out with invented spelling and illustrate a picture of their food. Display their work.

 

9. Show MOON and model how to decide if it is moon or soon. The M tells me to rub my tummy (lips come together and cave in), /m/, so this word is mmmm-oon, moon. You try some: MOM: mom or dad? MAP: nap or man? MAN: man or tan? MIX: mix or fix?  TAKE: take or make?  FIND: find or mind?

 

10. For assessment, distribute the worksheet from materials above. Students are to color the pictures and connect the lion to the words that start with /m/. Call students individually to read the phonetic cue words from step #9

 

Reference:

http://www.auburn.edu/academic/education/reading_genie/

YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiK7IL0kqd0

Assessment worksheet: http://www.kidzone.ws/kindergarten/m-begins1.htm