Hum, Drum, and Strum

Lesson Plan
Target Words:
- hum
- gum
- drum
- strum
- glum
Materials:
- Container to use as a drum (e.g., paper cup, food container, cardboard box)
- Container with rubber bands strung across the opening to strum (e.g., Kleenex box, bowl)
- Action signs
- Word blending cards
- Paper drum
- Drum and Chew Gum target text
- Drum and Hum target text
Overview
The children will drum, strum, and hum and practice reading and writing words that end with –um.
Literacy Activities
Drum and strum.
- Explain to the children that glum means to be sad and have them pretend to be glum.
- Tell the children that they will play a drum, hum, strum, and pretend to chew gum so they don’t feel glum.
- Give the children a container to use as a drum and invite the children to drum and hum.
- Give the children a container with rubber bands strung across the opening like a banjo and encourage them to strum and hum.
- Pretend to give the children a piece of gum and let them pretend to chew gum while they strum or drum.
- Ask the children to see if they can pretend to chew gum and hum at the same time.
- Point out that the children are no longer glum because they got to drum, hum, strum, and chew gum.
- Have the children share the -um words that they heard in the lesson so you can write them on the board (e.g., hum, gum, drum, strum).
Read –um words and engage in actions.
- Hold up and read an action sign for the children and have them repeat the word/phrase back to you and act it out:
- Drum, Hum, Strum, Chew gum, Eat a plum, Be glum
- Have the children point out and read the words that end in -um.
- Add any new words to the list on the board.
More Practice
Identify, blend and manipulate sounds.
- Let the children make a target word (e.g. hum) from word blending cards and then let them make different words by changing either of the consonants or the vowel.
- Change the beginning sound(s): hum → gum; drum → glum; sum → slum
- Change the vowel sound: hum → hem; glum → glam; slum → slim
- Change the ending sound(s): hum → hug; gum → gut; sum → sun
- For each of the words the children make, have them produce the sounds for each letter and then blend those sounds back in to the word.
Read target words in a text
- Read the target text Drum and Chew Gum to the children.
- Engage the children in reading the text simultaneously with you.
- Read the text together again, fading support.
- Have the children look for and underline the words that end in –um in the text.
- Repeat the supported reading process with the Drum and Hum target text.
Write about the activity using target words and phrases.
- Play a “pass the drum” game with the children.
- Have the children sit in a circle and take turns passing a paper drum.
- As the children get the drum, have them say a new word that ends in –um.
- Write each new word on the board.
- If someone suggests the word thumb, write it to the side of your list and explain that thumb sounds like it ends in -um like drum, but it has a silent b at the end so it goes in a list of its own for today.
- Repeat the game, but this time, pass a pencil or crayon with the paper drum and have the children write their word on the drum before passing it along.
Read More
SEEL Target Texts
Drum and Chew Gum
I have a friend.
My friend can play the drum.
She can drum: rum-tum, rum-tum, rum tum, tum
She can even drum and chew gum!
My friend can play the drum.
She can drum: rum-tum, rum-tum, rum tum, tum
She can even drum and chew gum!
I can’t play the drum.
But I can hum.
Hum, hum, hum.
I can hum but I cannot hum and chew gum.
But I can hum.
Hum, hum, hum.
I can hum but I cannot hum and chew gum.
Drum and Hum
We can drum on a drum.
Drum, drum, drum.
We can hum and drum.
Hum, drum, hum.
We can strum on a banjo.
Strum, strum, strum.
We can strum and hum.
Strum, hum, strum.
Drum and hum.
Hum and strum.
Drum, drum, drum.
We can hum and drum.
Hum, drum, hum.
We can strum on a banjo.
Strum, strum, strum.
We can strum and hum.
Strum, hum, strum.
Drum and hum.
Hum and strum.
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Standards
SEEL lessons align with Common Core Standards. Please see the standards page for the code(s) associated with this lesson.

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Hum, Drum, and Strum