Miss McMichael's
Lesson Designs
Emergent Literacy
Bang the Gong with ng
Rationale: This lesson will help children identify /ng/, the phoneme represented by ng. Students will learn to recognize /ng/ in spoken words by learning a meaningful representation (hitting a gong) and letters ng. The students will also practice finding /ng/ in words and apply phoneme awareness with /ng/ in phonetic cue reading.
Materials: Primary paper and a pencil, The King Lost His Ring
Procedures: 1. Say to the students: Our language is a bit tricky. Letters stand for how the mouth moves when saying a word. Today we will work on how the mouth moves when saying /ng/. We spell /ng/ with the letters ng. Ng sounds like when you hit a gong and ng is in the word gong.
2. Lets pretend to bang on a gong [Swing your arms and pretend to hit a gong and make the sound] /ng/, /ng/, /ng/. Take notice how your mouth is when you say /ng/ while hitting your gong. When you say /ng/ your mouth is open and you are blowing air out of your nose.
3. Let me show you how to find /ng/ in sing. I am going to stretch sing out in slow motion and listen for the gong. Ss-i-i-n-n-g. Now even slower sss-i-i-i-n-n-g-g
4. Now, let’s try a tongue tickler. “The gong bangs during the song.” Now say it three times. This time say it stretching out the /ng/. “The gonnnnggg bannngggs durinnnggg the sonnnggg.”
5. [Students will take out primary paper and pencil] we use the letters n and g to spell /ng/. Lets write the lower case n. You begin at the sidewalk and touch the fence with a curve and come straight down back to the sidewalk. Lets write the lower case g. You start at the fence and make a curve to the sidewalk and come back up to connect it to your beginning point at the fence. Then come back down the line in the sidewalk and go below the sidewalk and make a curve. Now make 5 more of each letter.
6. Call on students to answer and tell how they knew: Do you hear /ng/ in sing or talk? Sting or bite? Ring or bracelet? Lets see if you can spot /ng/ in some words. Bang the gong if you hear /ng/: read, sun, ring, look, bang, sang, cloud, long, swing.
7. Say: “Lets look at our reading book, The King Lost His Ring. Turn to page four and I will read it aloud” After reading the children will pick out the words that have /ng/. Then have them come up with other words that have the sound /ng/. Now turn to your partner and practice banging the gong with the words you picked out from thr reading.
8. Show SING and model how to decode how to decide if its sing or talk: the letter ng tells me to bang my gong. The word is s-i-nn-gg.
9. As an assessment, I would have students write down 5 word that include the /ng/ phoneme. I would then call each student individually and have him or her share one word from his or her list.
References: https://www.readinga-z.com/book/decodable.php?id=49
Murrary, Bruce. "Practical Chapter 6." Making Sight Words. Auburn University: Linus Publications, 2012. Print.
