Jessica Sullivan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hopping Along With Harry and H

By Jessica Sullivan

 

 

 

Rationale: This lesson will help children identify /h/, the phoneme represented by h. Students will learn to recognize /h/ in spoken words through meaningful representation (Hopping Harry) and learning the letter symbol h. Students will practice finding /h/ in words, and apply phoneme awareness with /h/ in phonetic cue reading by distinguishing rhyming words from beginning letters.

 

Materials: Primary paper and pencil, poster with tongue tickler reading “Hungry Harry is Hopping For Hamburgers,” visual aid with Harry hopping (up and down), The Little Red Hen Makes a Pizza (by Philemon Sturges), assessment worksheet (link below), word cards with HAND, HAT, HOT, HOOK, TUCK, and crayons.

 

Procedures:

1. Say: Our written language is a secret code. Sometimes it is hard to learn what letters stand for- the mouth moves we make as we say words. Today, we are going to discover and work on spotting the mouth move /h/ and the letter h. The letter h looks like an exhausted dog who has his tongue out, and /h/ sounds like the noises a tired dog would make after running around.

2. Let’s pretend we are Harry and we are hopping along (students stand and hop in place until teacher says to stop). What does your mouth do when you say the word “hop”? Notice that your mouth is opened and your breathing out air as you form the /h/ sound. Hold your hand in front of your mouth. Can you feel the air?

3. Let me show you how to find /h/ in the word hot. Say it slowly with me and listen for the out of breath sound. Hhhh-ooo-t. One more time: Hhhh-ooo-t. Put your hand in front of your mouth. I feel the air! I can hear the out of breath sound in the word hot.

4. Let’s try a tongue tickler (on poster). “Hungry Harry is Hopping for Hamburgers.” Everybody say it together. Now say it again, but this time stretch out the /h/ sound at the beginning of the words. “Hhhhunryy Hhhharry is Hhhopping for Hhhamburgers.” Try it one more time, but this time break it off the word: “/h/ ungry /h/ arry is /h/ opping for /h/ amburgers.”

5. (Have students take out primary paper and pencil) Now lets learn how to print letter Hh. Lets write an upper case H. First, place your pencil on the rooftop. Pull down from the rooftop to the sidewalk to make a straight line. Move over a small space to the right and draw another line from the rooftop to the sidewalk, and then connect the two lines through the fence. Now lets print a lowercase letter h. A lowercase h reminds me of a person running. Place your pencil on the rooftop and pull down to the sidewalk, then bounce back up to the fence and curve back down to the sidewalk. I can’t wait to see the H’s that you’ve made! (Teacher will walk around and check each H, then have the children to practice printing more H’s).

6. I am going to call on students to answer the questions and I want you to raise your hand and tell me which word you hear the /h/ sound in. Do you hear /h/ in hop or pop? had or mad? House or mouse? Lets see if you can feel the /h/ air coming from your mouth in some more words. Breath like hopping Harry if you hear /h/ in: Honey, kite, hippo, red, cake, hello.

7. Say: Let’s look at our alphabet book, The Little Red Hen Makes A Pizza. Listen and breath like Hopping Harry when you hear /h/ while I’m reading the book. In this book the Little Red Hen ask all her friends to help her shop for ingredients to make a pizza. She needs ingredients to make dough, and ingredients to add toppings. All of the Little Red Hen’s friends are too busy to help shop or make the pizza. Let’s read while listening for our /h/ sound to see if she shares her pizza. After the read aloud say: “What were some of the words that you heard that made the /h/ sound?” Can you think of any other animals or pizza toppings that start with the /h/ sound? After thinking a few minutes, I want you to draw a picture of another animal or pizza topping that starts with the /h/ sound. Write the name of the animal or thing under it after you draw and color it.”

8. Show HAND and model how to decide if it is hand or stand. Remember that the h tells me to breath like out of breath harry, /h/, this this word is hhh-and, hand. I’m going to let you try some on your own now: HAT: sat or hat? HOOK: look or hook? TUCK: tuck or huck? MOP: mop or hop?

 

For the assessment, hand the worksheet out. Students are to decide which pictures begin with the letter h and write the letter to complete the word. Afterwards, they can color the pictures. While students work on this, the teacher can call students individually to read the phonetic cue words from step 8.

 

Resources:

Assessment Worksheet:

http://www.kidzone.ws/images-changed/kindergarten/h-as-begins2.gif

 

 

Book:

The Little Red Hen Makes a Pizza by Philemon Sturges

http://www.themeasuredmom.com/books-to-read-for-letter-h/

 

Resource from another H lesson:

Gunter, Morgan “Hurry Down the Hill With H”

 

Farley. Kate “Harry and Henry Huff and Puff with H”

 

 

Here is a PDF file of the lesson plan above:

 

 

 

 

 

 

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