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Dan The Dino says "Duh, Derek!" 

Rationale: This lesson will help children identify /d/, the phoneme of D. Students will learn to recognize /d/ in spoken words by learning the sound analogy “Duh! Says Dan the dino” and the letter symbol D, practice finding /d/ in words, and apply phoneme awareness with /d/ in phonetic cue reading by distinguishing rhyming words from beginning letters.

Materials: Primary paper, pencils, anchor chart with Dan the Dino, drawing paper and crayons, video: “D is for Dinosaur” ,  Letter D sound worksheet, word cards with DIG, PIG, DOT, LOT, DIP, SIP, DOG, FOG

Procedures:

  1. Say: “Our written language is a secret code! The tricky part is learning what letters stand for, the mouth moves as we say words. Today we are going to work on the letter /d/. we spell /d/ with a D! the letter D kind of looks like the belly of a dinosaur, don’t you think?”

  2. Say, “If you were a big, huge dinosaur walking around, your feet would make a lot of noise, wouldn’t they? Listen to my feet when I walk like a dinosaur! *Stomp my feet while saying the phoneme /d/*. When I stomp my feet, it sounds like a dinosaur it sounds like /d/. Why don’t you guys stand up and stomp your feet with me! Notice your tongue? It touches the roof of your mouth when you say /d/, that’s how we pronounce the phoneme D.

  3. Say: Now let me show you how to find /d/ in the word duck. I am going to stretch out duck into a rainbow with my hands. A rainbow starts on one side and glides over to the other side. Let’s put our hands on our knee and say the first part of the word. Up in the air on the middle of the word and back down on our other knee for the last part of the word, like this: 

  1. Say: Now let’s try a tongue tickler! “Dan the Dino was practicing his Dance moves in the Dining room when his brother Derek said, “Wow Dan! You have loud feet!” and Dan said (here is our tickler) “Duh Derek! I’m a Dancing Dino!” Everyone say it together! Now let’s say it 3 more times! Now lets streettttchhh out the /d/ at the beginning of each word! Ddddduh dddderek I’m a dddddancing dddddino! Now let’s say it again and well break the sound up from the word! /d/uh /d/erek I’m a /d/ancing /d/ino.

  2. Say: Now were going to use the letter F to spell /f/. Capitol D looks like the big tummy of a dinosaur. Let’s start at the fence and make a little c by scooping from the fence to the sidewalk, then come up to the roof and draw a line to the sidewalk. Once I put a smiley face on your paper, draw 9 more!

  3. Say: Now let’s play a game! Do you hear /d/ in PIG or DIG? How did you know that? Dot or lot? Odd or off? Lift or drop? Dip or Sip? Now let’s see if you can spot the dino stomp in these words. Stomp your feet if you hear /d/. pug, dog, fun, rug, done, do, love, cough, daisy, rose.

  4. Say: Now let’s watch a video about dinosaurs! In the video, the dinosaurs are eating all kinds of foods that start with /d/. Can you name the ones in the video? And can you name any other foods that start with /d/? I also want you to make up a silly food with /d/ and draw me a picture! Display their work.

  5. Show DIP and model how to decide if its DIP or SIP. The D tells me to stomp my feet, /d/, so this word is dddddiiipp, dip. Now you try some, DOT: DOT or LOT? DIME: DIME or TIME? DART: DART or FART?

  6. For assessment I will distribute the worksheet and have students color the correct word that starts with /d/. Call on students to tell me which ones start with D and review the words from step 8.

Reference
https://www.treevalleyacademy.com/letter-d-sound-worksheets/
https://youtu.be/ZZXlea85LZw

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