Miss Piggy’s Pancakes
An Emergent Literacy Lesson Design
Rationale: This lesson will help children identify /p/, the phoneme represented by P. Students will learn to recognize /p/ in spoken words by learning a meaningful representation (Miss Piggy’s Pancake) and the letter symbol P, practice finding /p/ in words, and apply phoneme awareness with /p/ in phonetic cue reading by distinguishing which words have /p/ in them.
Materials: pencil and primary paper; Miss Piggy milk jug and pancakes with PANCAKE, PINK, PEN, PAT, BALL, CAT, TOP, RED [URL below]; If You Give a Pig a Pancake by Laura Numeroff; activity worksheet assessment [URL below]
Procedures:
1. Say: Our written language is a secret code. The tricky part learning what letters stand for – the mouth moves we make as we say words. Today we’re going to work on spotting the mouth move /p/. We spell /p/ with letter P. P looks like a pig’s nose. We hear /p/ a lot in “Miss Piggy Prefers Pink Pancakes.”
2. I’m going to show you how to listen for the letter P in a word. Listen as I sound it out: “Miss Piggy prefers pink pancakes.” Repeat it after me two times. Now let’s draggggg out the /p/ sound. Ready? “Miss Ppppiggy pppprefers ppppink ppppancakes.” Now let’s say the /p/ and then say the rest of the word. “Miss /p/iggy /p/refers /p/ink /p/ancakes.”
3. Call on students to answer and tell how they knew: Do you hear the /p/ sound in “piggy” or “miss?” in “pencil” or “marker?” in “blue” or “pink?” in “animal” or “pet?” Great job! Now let’s move on to our fun activity!
4. Now, let’s read If You Give a Pig a Pancake! I’m going to read it out loud and I want you to raise your hand every time you hear /p/.
5. [Have students take out primary paper and pencil.] We use letter P to spell /p/. Let’s write the uppercase P. Go down, pick up, and around to the fence. Let’s write the lowercase p. Start at the fence, go straight down into the ditch, come up and put his chin on the sidewalk. After I put a smile on your first uppercase and lowercase letter, write five more of each.
6. Let’s play a little game. This is Miss Piggy Pancake (show Miss Piggy made out of a milk jug) [URL below]. She can ONLY eat pancakes that have words that start with /p/ or she will get a bad tummy ache! Help me put the words that begin with /p/ in Miss Piggy Pancake’s mouth. Use Miss Piggy to “eat” pancakes (flashcards) with words that begin with /p/.
8. For an assessment, student will complete the activity worksheet on the letter P by drawing a line from a pig to a word that begins with /p/. [URL below]
http://www.kidzone.ws/kindergarten/p-begins1.htm
http://teachersland.com/activites-for-if-you-give-a-pig-a-pancake-by-laura-numeroff/
Macintire, Rebecca http://www.auburn.edu/academic/education/reading_genie/projects/macintireel.html
Danson, Katelyn https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CUFfEGPNJDQcEuMqMq2gR1ouWXZ_ekKHd2ZQE4eJTfw/edit