Vowels

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Vowels

• Ana Posada

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Topic Information

• Unit Topic
• Vowels
• Subject
• Language Arts/Reading
• Grade Level
• Kindergarten

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Learning Objectives

• Students will be able to say how many vowels
  there are.
• Students will be able to recognize the vowels and
  to point them out from a list of letters
• Students will know that vowels are important to
  words.

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Unit Questions and Essential Questions

• Essential Questions
• What would happen to words if there no were no
  vowels?
• How many vowels can there be in a word?
• Unit Questions
• How many vowels are in your name?
• In your family who has the most vowels in
  their name?
• Do all names hove vowels?

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Activities

• Hands on classroom activities
• Work in groups and look at each of their
  classmates names and notice the vowels and how
  many there are in their names.
• Make a song with the entire class and assign one
  vowel to each group the must draw, color, and cut
  out the vowel to put it on display on the
  Authors Wall
• Technology Activities
• Go to the following link and Listen to the short
  vowels poems then in class discussion the
  students should be able to give me an example of
  a word that contains the short vowel sounds of
  each vowel.

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Other Activities

• Teach the students a song about vowels to make it
  easier for them to remember the vowels.
• Assign the students to look at their families
  names and see which one has the most vowels, but
  first to say the word and make a guess of what
  name they think will have the most vowels.

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Works Cited

• Sindrons, January 2002 A Short Vowel Book AEIOU
  Retrieved March 7, 2006 from www.mtlakes.org/ww/te
  ch/11.htm