Miss Millie the Moose


Emergent Literacy

By: Jillian Wyatt




1. A large picture of Miss Millie the Moose (if a puppet of a moose can be found that would be even better)

2. Pencils

3. Primary Paper

4. A board for the teacher to demonstrate on

5. Blank drawing paper


Ex: a mouse, a table, a muffin, a cookie, a monkey, a moose, a car, a mountain, etc.

7. If You Give a Moose a Muffin



1. Explain Why:


2. Review

Next you would need to review what they have already learned. This should be all of the letters leading up to the letter m. To do this, you could go through the alphabet, in order, calling on different students to tell you what the name of the letter is and what sound it makes. “Jonnie, what is that first letter on your list of the alphabet?” “A”  “Good, and what sound does it make?” “/a/ and sometimes /A/.”  And so it would continue. When we finish with the letter l I would ask what letter they thought we might be learning today.  Hopefully they will say m.

3.  Explain How:



4. Model:

“Today I am going to introduce you to my friend Miss Millie the Moose.  Miss Millie is going to help us learn more about the letter m.  Does anyone know what sound it makes?  mmmmm.That is the sound you make when your mom is making muffins that smell really good, you would say, mmmmm.  Put your lips together and try to push through with the mmmm sound.  Let’s all say it, and rub your tummy when you do it, like you smell those muffins.  I have a sentence that we will all learn that has a lot of mmm sounds in it, so I want you to listen to my sentence first, and then we will all repeat it together.  Each time we hear the mmmm sound, rub your tummy.  Miss Millie the Moose made many M and M muffins.”  Then the students and I would all go through the sentence several times, rubbing our stomachs to help us remember the phoneme of mmm.

5. Simple Practice:








6.  Whole Texts:

Since the children are really just learning their letters, it would be hard for them to read very much.  So I will just write a few short, but connected sentences up on the board that includes the m sound.  We will read these together as a class.

At some point, either now or later on in the day I will read to them, If You Give a Moose a Muffin.   

7.  Assessment:

This is when I will hand out the sheet that has the different objects on it that begins with the letter m and some that do not. Since the kids are just now learning their letters I will ask them to look very closely at each picture and if they see something that they believe starts with an m, then they color that picture. If not then just leave it blank.





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