- Author:
- Staci
- Subject:
- Elementary English Language Arts
- Material Type:
- Lesson Plan
- Level:
- Lower Elementary
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- License:
- Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial
- Language:
- English
- Media Formats:
- Text/HTML
Education Standards
Intro to digraph sh
Overview
Students learn to recognize the digraph sh (it's sound and it's spelling) while learning to read words with the sound.
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Summary
This lesson will introduce the sh digraph to students. They will learn to recgnize the /sh/ sound, how to correctly produce the /sh/ sound, how to spell it when writing, and accurately read words with sh.
This will be face to face learning and can be done all in one day or broken up into smaller lessons over a few days.
Background for Teachers
To teach this lesson, you will need an understanding of how to produce the /sh/ sound correctly.
This /SH/ Video is very helpful.
Materials needed:
Picture book "Sh, We Have a Plan" by Chris Haughton (or you can watch it here)
Sound bag: backpack or othe bag filled 7-10 with items that have the /sh/ sound (fish, shark, shampoo, dish, cash, etc)
/sh/ decodable passage
Step 1 - Goals and Outcomes
Learning Intentions:
- Students will be able to
- recognize the sound /sh/ in spoken words.
- correctly produce the /sh/ sound
- recognize the spelling of the /sh/ sound for reading and writing
Success Criteria:
- Students will regognize and read words with /sh/ correctly
Step 2 - Planning Instruction
Student Background Knowledge
- Prior to this lesson, students will need to have an understanding of sounds in words and that those sounds can be spelled with one or more letters. Students should have a basic understanding of what a dirgraph is. To activate that prior knowledge, show this video.
Strategies for Diverse Learners
This lesson will include a variety of hands on, multimedia, visual, and auditory activities to engage diverse learners.
Step 3 - Instruction
- Activate prior knowledge about digraphs with this video.
- Discuss with class, the definition of a digraph "a combination of two letters representing one sound" and have them share the digraph sounds they have learned and remember. Write the digraphs on the board
- Sound bag
- Show the class the sound bag and tell them that they are going to play a game of "guess that sound" and that they should listen for the sound that all of the items in the bag have in common. When they think they recognize the sound, they could put their hands on their head or raise their hand, but they should NOT shout out the sound.
- allow one student at a time to pick an item from the sound bag, name it, and show it to the rest of the class. Continue until all items have been picked from the bag.
- Ask the class if they know what sound the items all have in common. Allow multiple students to share their answer and how they know
- Demonstrate for the class, the correct way to form and pronounce the /sh/ sound. Write SH on the board and explain that /sh/ is spelled with the letters s and h and it is a digraph.
- Read "Sh, We have a Plan" or watch it hereand have the students jump everytime they hear the /sh/ sound. Pause after each /sh/ sound and have them repeat the spelling (s-h spells /sh/) and draw it in the air with their hands or on the carpet with their fingers.
- Highlight and read an /sh/ deocable passage. (Links to free passge options below)
- Demonstrate how to look for words with the /sh/ sound by starting in the title and the first line of the text. Show students how to look at every word to determine if it has the drigraph. If it does, then highlight it.
- Give each student a passage and a highlighter
- Have students highlight all of the words in the rest of the passage with the digraph sh
- Have students read just the highlighted words
- Have students read the whole passage 1-2 more times
- Other resources:
- This video is another fun way to introduce and practice the /sh/ sound.
- Free Decodable passages available on TPT
Step 4 - Assessments
Students will demonstrate their understanding of the digraph /sh/ (recognizing it and reading it) by highlighting a passage and reading it aloud. Students will monitor their own understanding during the activity while the teacher listens in to students reading and conferences with them individually. The teacher can also review the passage highlighting to see if students recognize the print of /sh/. Use the attached rubric to determine mastery.