Vacuum with Virginia

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rationale: This lesson will help children identify /v/, the phoneme represented by V. In this lesson it will teach students how/when to recognize /v/ in words by learning a representation that they can remember, in this lesson vacuum is what they’ll think of when thinking of the letter v and what sound it makes. Students will apply this phoneme awareness with /v/ in phonetic cue readings by distinguishing the rhyming words from beginning letters.

 

Materials:

1. The paper that was designed to help them learn to write (rooftop, fence, sidewalk, and ditch)

2. Pencil/Crayons

3. Tongue tickler chart: Vacuum with Virginia 

4. Word cards with words with V ex.) Van

5. Worksheets that focus on the letter V

6. Book The Viper by: Lisa Thiesing

 

Procedures:

1. Say: It can tricky learning what each letter stands for, that’s why today we are going to focus on just one letter which is the phoneme /v/. The letter V looks almost like birds flying in the sky and the /v/ sounds like a vacuum.

2. Say: We are going to pretend to vacuum and make the sound a vacuum makes /v/, /v/, /v/; Now, let’s try it! Are you ready to try it with me? (All do it together); When we do this our top teeth touch our bottom lip. Also, when we say /v/, we are blowing air through our top teeth. 

3. Say: Now, I’m going to teach you how to find /v/ in a word. Let’s start with the word violet. First, we’re going to stretch out the word violet in slow motion and listen for my vacuum. Listen super closely and tell me if you hear it. Slow: Vvv-i-oo-lll-e-tt. Did you hear the vacuum sound? Good job! That’s our /v/.

4. Say: You guys are super smart! A tongue tickler is something that targets phonemes at the beginning of most words. They really help us remember sounds because we learn them in a fun way. Let’s try a new task now using our /v/. We are going to try a tongue tickler, but first I’m going to tell you a story that includes our tongue tickler. Virginia was traveling home to see her mom, Vicky. Before she got home, she saw some flowers on a cart outside a store. She walked up to the man and said, “I would really like some violets please.” The man replied, “I have vegetables inside fresh from my garden, also.” Virginia decided to go in and buy some corn because Vicky her mom loved it. On her way home she saw where her mom texted her about vitamins that they had ran out of. Virginia went into another store and came out with vitamins. She couldn’t wait to get home, she missed it even though she knew she would have to vacuum. For the rest of the afternoon, Virginia visited Vicky while vacuuming and gave her violets and vegetables with vitamins. Our tongue tickler is “Virginia visited Vicky while vacuuming and gave her violets and vegetables with vitamins.” Can you say it with me? Every time you hear the /v/ at the beginning of a word I want everyone to pretend they are pushing a vacuum. /v/ irginia /v/ isited /v/ icky while /v/ acuuming and gave her /v/ iolets and /v/egetables with /v/ itamins.

5. Say: We are going to practice writing the letter V (get the special paper they are using to demonstrate how to draw a correct V). We will start at the roof and make a diagonal line down to the sidewalk and then a diagonal line back up to the roof, this is what a capital V would look like. Now, let’s look at what a lower-case v would look like, start at the fence, and make a diagonal line down to the sidewalk and then back up to the fence. It looks almost like a capital V, but we can see it’s just a little bit smaller. Now, you are going to practice, first draw a capital V and then draw a lower-case v beside it just as I have done. Once you have done this hold your paper up and I’ll come check it!

6. Say: Everyone is doing so good! Now, let’s see who can hear /v/ in a word and guess the right one, I’m going to hold up a word card with two words on it and you tell me which one is right. If you want to answer raise your hand and I’ll call on you. Do you hear /v/ in van or man (van)? Vet or bet (vet)? Volcano or mountain (volcano)? Violin or drum (violin)? Over or under (over)? Let’s see if you can spot when my mouth moves when I say a word with /v/, if you do I want you to vacuum like we did before: move, on, oven, vase, go, next, vote.

7. Say: Let’s go over how to decide what word has /v/ in it. Here is the word van and man: The V tells me to vacuum /v/, so the word v v-an and mm-an we can hear the /v/ in van.

8. Say: Now, we are going to read a fun book called “The Viper” in this book Peggy gets a phone call from someone named the Viper who keeps telling her “I’m coming to your house.”, Peggy is super nervous because she has no clue who the Viper is and why the Viper wants to come to her house. The Viper keeps calling her… wonder why the Viper wants to come to her house?? Let’s read and find out! Every time you hear /v/ I want you to pretend to vacuum the floor. Are you ready? Listen closely!

9. For assessments, I will pass out the worksheet. On the first worksheet the student will trace the letter V and draw 2 things that begin with the letter V. On the next worksheet,students will circle the picture that has a V in it.

 

 

 

 

References:

Vacuum With the Letter V: Jase Phillips

https://jasep18.wixsite.com/my-site/emergent-literacy  

Dr. Murray’s Lesson Design, Brush Your Teeth with F 

https://auburn.instructure.com/courses/1359716/pages/lesson-design-materials  

 

Rooftop paper:

http://wp.auburn.edu/rdggenie/home/lessons/letters/  

 

 

Assessment worksheets: https://www.education.com/worksheet/article/alphabet-practice-v/  

                                             https://www.education.com/worksheet/article/letter-sounds-v-prek/    

 

Thiesing, Lisa. The Viper. Canbook Distribution Services, 2004.