CCSS: Hickety Pickety Bumblebee Song To Segment Words

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.1.2.C
Isolate and pronounce initial, medial vowel, and final sounds (phonemes) in spoken single-syllable words.

SWBAT use the Hickety Pickety Bumblebee song to segment words I can sing along to break words apart

Each student independently segments a word by themselves providing an opportunity for the teacher to identify who is still struggling with segmentation. Student song order can be arranged to either have kids who the teacher might think struggles with go first (to see their skill level before practice) or last (to see if their skill level improves after practicing with the class).

The reason that a phonological song that focuses on segmentation was twofold. First, my students, including the student who I gave the phonological awareness assessment too, struggle

First, I appreciated that the song incorporated both a short individualized component as well as a much longer group sing along component. This way I could quickly and easily gauge the segmentation skill of any student in the class, while still keeping the rest of the class engaged and giving me a quick way to assess students. Since I picked whose “turn” it was for the individualized part, I could select specifically for students who I wanted to hear practice. Additionally, each rendition of the song is short, and so I can quickly go through a large number of students in a short amount of time. Not only can I select the students who I think need the most practice to have a turn, but I only need a short amount of time to be able to go through all the students in my class. Finally, since you can pick any words to go with the song, I was able to pick a variety of different words. For this lessons I chose words that had a myriad of different middle-vowel sounds to practice. My students struggle the most with middle vowel sounds, so I wanted to use this song to expose them to as many different vowel sounds as