I had to put together a powerpoint for Project Impact.

1. Dr. Seuss’
Hop on Pop
Lesson Plan for the short vowel
sounds “O” and “U”
Michelle Norris
Tech 110
12/19/08

2. California State Standards
• 1.5 Distinguish long- and short-vowel
sounds in orally stated single-syllable
words (e.g., bit/bite).
• 1.10 Generate the sounds from all the
letters and letter patterns, including
consonant blends and long- and short-
vowel patterns (i.e., phonograms), and
blend those sounds into recognizable
words.
• For the purposes of this lesson we will be focusing on the
sounds for “o” and “u”

3. Students will:
• Identify rhyming words in a story
• Discriminate between short u and o
sounds
• Produce rhyming words when given a
keyword in the word family
• Blend onsets and rhymes aloud to create
words
• Sort pictures based on their rhymes

4. Instructional Sequence
• Print out copies of the Hop on
Pop worksheet at
www.readwritethink.org
• Enlarge each section of the
worksheet to be used as an
example on the board.
• Create sentence strips to be
used with the enlarged
images.
– Pup is up.
– Pup in cup.
– Pup on cup.
– We like to hop.
– We like to hop on top of pop.
– Stop, you must not hop on
pop.

5. Introduction to Activities
• 1. Begin the lesson by
reading Hop on Pop
aloud to students.
Students may be familiar
with Dr. Seuss stories
and will be excited to
hear one read-aloud.
After reading the story,
ask students what they
noticed about the story.
Talk about rhyming words
and CVC words.

6. Intro to Activities cont.
• 2. Choose a page in the book (or have a
student volunteer choose a page) and reread it.
Ask students to notice which words sound alike,
or rhyme.
• 3. Show students the cover of the book and
reread the title. Ask students to identify the
words that rhyme (hop and pop). Write these
words on chart paper and ask students what
they notice about the two words.

7. Intro to Activities cont.
• Help students come up with more words
that end in –op. Examples: slop, mop, stop
• Have students clap out the rhyming words.
Example /h/ op. Students clap once for “h”
sound and once for “op” ending

8. Assessment
• Give students
rhyming worksheet
-Have them color the
picture and then cut
them out. Paste the
rhyming words
together on a sheet of
construction paper.
http://www.readwritethin
k.org/lesson_images/l
esson113/sort.pdf