Author:
Laura Martin
Subject:
Early Childhood Development
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Level:
Lower Primary
Tags:
  • CVC
  • License:
    Creative Commons Attribution
    Language:
    English

    CVC - Bird themed

    CVC - Bird themed

    Overview

    Teach consonant-vowel-consonant with this bird-themed activity.

    CVC - Bird themed

    Resources:

    Teague, M. (2019). Fly! New York, New York: Beach Lane Books.

    Super Simple Songs – Kids Songs. (2016, July 2). Flap Your Wings Together | Kids Songs from Super Simple Kids [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaARSaHa5GA

     

    Step One: Introduction

    The plan is to get students active and excited about this lesson. This can be achieved by using a video found on YouTube. The video is about learning to fly. Make sure closed-captioning/subtitles are on so the students can see the words. As you sing and dance along, help students hunt for consonant-vowel-consonant words in the subtitles. Several are presented throughout the two-and-a-half-minute video. They include big, hop, get, top and can.

     

     

    Step Two: Instructional strategies

    The phonics strategy is consonant-vowel-consonant. You will teach students how to segment and blend sounds. Have them identify the vowel in the CVC word. Explain that in a CVC word, the vowel is typically a short sound. Then have students attempt to blend the onset with the rime. The words that were included in the video were big, hop, get, top, and can. Start with the word big. Ask students to identify the vowel and describe what the short sound is for that vowel. The vowel is “i” and the sound is the short I sound “ih.” Then, ask students to blend the b-sound with the short-i sound. Finally, add the g-sound. Then celebrate because they just segmented and blended sounds in order to read the word “big!” Yay! Repeat this process with the words hop and can.

     

    Step Three: Guided Practice

    Once you feel like your students are confident in their ability to segment and blend, distribute an activity called “Let’s Build Words!” The worksheet paper has a nest image and three “empty” eggs on it.

     
     

     

     

     

     

     

    There is a helper sheet that lists CVC words that are in both the video and the book that you will follow up with during the closure.

    Students can be placed in small groups of four or five. Give them each a baggie full of eggs that are lettered, the helper sheet and the empty nest (see the attachments). There are enough lettered eggs to build the 14 words on the helper sheet. If students finish building those words, they can play around with the eggs and see how many more word combinations they can come up with that aren’t listed on the helper sheet.  The goal is that the small groups work together to push each other outside of their Zone of Proximate Development.

     

    Step Four: Closure

    Close your lesson on CVC words by reading the book fly! by Mark Teague. This is actually a picture book that the following text has been added to. The story goes like this:

    There once was a baby bird named Mat. And in his nest he sat. He did not want to leave. He wanted his mom to always feed him. His mom wanted him to hop, fly and hunt for his own worms. His mom left him alone and Mat got very hungry. He chirped and squeaked and squawked until he accidentally fell out of his nest. Down, down he went. His mom tried to convince him to fly. But, he was not interested. Mat’s mom had had enough! She left him alone in the dark, scary night. Mat sat and thought about it. He was scared, lonely and upset. He missed his mom. He wanted so badly to sit in his nest with his mom. So, he jumped and hopped and….flew! Finally, Mat sat in his nest with his mom.