5. Lesson Plans for Teaching Articulation with Sound-Letter Correspondence

Introducing the Letter 'b'

This lesson plan includes warm-up phonemic awareness activities and all the steps needed to introduce a new letter. A good resource for kindergarten teachers or anyone working on new sounds with early readers.

Lesson Template for Introducing a New Letter

Each time you introduce a new letter, you'll need to write a lesson plan. Use this template to make sure you don't miss any steps.

Teacher Tip: Discussing Articulation During Spelling
One of the biggest benefits of introducing the articulatory features to all students is for error correction during spelling. For example, if a student spells the word lab as lap, this interaction could happen:

“Look at your great work. Listen as I read what you wrote and let’s compare. You wrote lap. Let’s tap all the sounds in lap together: /l/, /ă/, /p/, lap. The word we are spelling together is lab. Let’s tap lab together: /l/, /ă/, /b/, lab. Lap and lab are similar. The only difference is the ending sounds, /p/ and /b/. Those are consonant pairs: /p/ is voiceless and /b/ is voiced. That is such a smart mistake! Those are tricky!”