Rationale: To become effective readers and spellers, students
must master the alphabetic principle, which states that letters
stand for phonemes and spellings map out phonemes. Students must
learn to recognize phonemes in order to match them to letters.
One phoneme students have trouble with is /p/ because of its
relation to /b/. Students often confuse the letters p and b as
well as the sounds. This lesson will help students isolate /p/
in spoken words as well as recognize the letter p in written
words. Materials: 1) a fake feather for each student and
teacher, 2) primary paper and pencil, 3) sentence strip with
"Pam the panda wears a pink parka with purple pants", 4) Dr.
Seuss' Hop on Pop, drawing paper and crayons, a die cut of the
letter p for every student. Procedures: 1. Begin the lesson by
telling students that letters really stand for sounds that we
say. When we say certain sounds our mouth may move in a
particular way that can help us identify that sound. Today we
are going to learn about how our mout