Vroom Vroom with V

Emergent Literacy Lesson 

Rationale: This lesson will help a child to identify the phoneme /v/, a sound that is represented by the letter V. Students will learn to recognize /v/ in spoken works by learning a meaningful representation (vroom of a vacuum) and the letter symbol V, practice finding /v/ in words, and apply phoneme awareness with /v/ in phonetic cue reading by distinguishing rhyming words from beginning letters.

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Materials:

• Picture of the vrooming vacuum

• Chart with tongue tickler “Vicky the Villain vacuumed the velvet rug.” • Primary paper and pencils

• Word cards with VET, VAN, VEST, and VINE

• Assessment Worksheet

• http://twistynoodle.com/draw-a-line-to-the-matching-v-word-worksheet/

• Book: Growing Vegetable Soup by Lois Ehlert

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Procedure:

1. Say: Our written language is a secret code. It can be tricky at times because we

may not know what letters stand for- the mouth moves as we say words. Today we are going to work on spotting the mouth move /v/. When we spell /v/ we spell it with the letter V. V sounds like the noise a vacuum makes “vvvvv”.

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2. Now let’s practice making the noise a vacuum makes- /v/, /v/, /v/. Notice where your tongue is? Your lips are apart but your bottom teeth are touching your top lip. Now when you make the /v/ sound, put your hand out and make the motion like you are vacuuming. Everytime we make the /v/ sound we are going to make the vacuuming hand motion.

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3. Now I am going to show you how to find /v/ in the word vet. I will stretch the word out slowly and I want you to listen for my vacuuming sound. Vvvv-eeee-ttttt. I will try it slower: Vvvvvvvv-eeeeee-ttttttt. I could feel my lips were apart and my bottom teeth were touching my top lip at the beginning of the word.

Leigh Ann Gilbert

  

4. Say: let’s try the tongue tickler that is on the poster: “Vicky the villain vacuumed the velvet rug.” Let’s say it together. Now stretch out the /v/ at the beginning of every word. “Vvvvvicky the vvvvillain vvvvvacuumed the vvvvvelvet rug” This time we are going to break it off in the beginning of the word: “/v/icky the /v/illain /v/acuumed the /v/elvet rug”.

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5. I am going to say two words to you and I want you to tell me which one you hear / v/ in. Do you hear /v/ in vain or main? Very or merry? Vast or last? Now let’s see if you can recognize the motion of /v/. When you see /v/ make your vacuuming motion, if you do not hear /v/ then put your hands in your lap: Vase, mask, volcano, fruit, Venus, jacket, violin.

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6. Pass out primary paper and a pencil to the students. “We use V to spell /v/. Lets practice writing a capital V. First, you will start at the rooftop and draw a diagonal line down to the sidewalk and then another diagonal line back up to the rooftop.” I will then model this on a whiteboard and ask them to write uppercase V, ten times. While they are doing this, I will walk around to see if any are having trouble with it. Once they are finished I will say “now let’s try a lowercase v. To make a lowercase v you make the same diagonal lines starting at the fence, down to the sidewalk, and ending back up on the fence ” I will model this again on the whiteboard. “Now let’s practice the lowercase v ten times.” I will walk around again to see if anyone needs any help.

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7. We are going to read our letter /v/ book, Growing Vegetable Soup. Book Talk: This book is about a little boy and his dad. They grow their own vegetables in their garden to make some yummy soup. Lets read to find out what all they have to do to make the soup, and lets find out if the soup turns out yummy.

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8. Show VET and show the students how to decide if it is vet or met: The V tells me to make my vrooming vacuum; /v/, /v/, /v/. So this word is vvvv-et, vet. Now I want you to try some: VAN: van or man? VEST: nest or vest? VINE: line or vine?

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References:

https://thisreadingmama.com/books-for-the-letter-v/

Lois Ehlert, Growing Vegetable Soup http://twistynoodle.com/draw-a-line-to-the-matching-v-word-worksheet/