Lesson Plan Template ED 3501 (Version C)

Lesson
Title/Focus

Short Vowel U

Date

December 2, 2014

Subject/Gra
de Level

Language Arts/ Grade One

Time
Duratio
n

30 MINS

Unit

Writing/ Reading

Teacher

Angela McPeake

OUTCOMES FROM ALBERTA PROGRAM OF STUDIES

General
Learning
Outcomes:
Specific
Learning
Outcomes:

General Outcome 2
Students will listen, speak, read, write, view and represent to comprehend and
respond personally and critically to oral, print and other media texts.
2.1 Use Strategies and Cues
use phonic knowledge and skills to read unfamiliar words in context

LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Students will:
1. Recognize the sound association with the short vowel U.

ASSESSMENTS
Observations:
Key Questions:

Products/Performan
ces:

Students recognize short vowel U words verbally and in written format

What are some short vowel U words?
Can we hear short vowel U words?
Can we see short vowel U words?
Students will identify short vowel U words in a story, and they
will write in the missing short vowel U words

LEARNING RESOURCES CONSULTED

Alberta Language Arts Program of Studies
http://education.alberta.ca/media/307110/grade1.
pdf
Pug Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6OwxEd0Th0
Brain Break song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=NwT5oX_mqS0

MATERIALS AND EQUIPMENT

Worksheet- PUG story
Smart board

PROCEDURE
Prior to lesson
Attention Grabber
Assessment of
Prior Knowledge
Expectations for
Learning and
Behavior
Advance
Organizer/Agenda
Transition to Body
Learning Activity
#1
Teacher Notes:
Assessments/
Differentiation

Photocopy worksheet , test smart board

Introduction
Pug Video
1. What are the vowels?
2. What sound does the short vowel U make? (It doesnt
say its name)

Time
3 MINS

Students should be on task and working as a class

1. Morning calendar
2. Assessment of prior knowledge
3. Move to desks: watch pug video/ discuss
4. Worksheet
Have students say an U word as they go to their desk
Body
Students read on their own
Read the story, what happens?
Dont fill in the words yet

30 MINS

Time
5 MINS

Circulate classroom and assist students in reading

Adapted from a template created by Dr. K. Roscoe

Lesson Plan Template ED 3501 (Version C)

Learning Activity
#2
Teacher Notes:
Assessments/
Differentiation
Learning Activity #3
Teacher Notes:
Assessment/
Differentiation

Consolidation of
Learning
Feedback From
Students:
Feedback To
Students
Transition To Next
Lesson
Sponge
Activity/Activities

Read the story as a class: write in words

Color the picture which has the short vowel U sound
Circulate the room
Help students write and read the words
Break down the words
Students finish up their book, read it with a partner
Give the last bit of time for students to finish up
When students are finished early they can cut the book
and staple it. Add in their own sentence
Closure
What sound does our short vowel U make? UH

15
MINS

5 MINS

Time
2 MINS

Did anyone find a new short vowel U word?

Try and look around the classroom to see if you can find a
short vowel U word
Think of these words you could write in sentences!

Students can create their own sentences of short vowel U words

Reflections from the

lesson

Harold and the purple crayon

Letter U Word Bank:

words that start with the Letter u

umbrella
umpire
under
underline
unhappy

words that contain the Letter u

bug
bun
drum
duck
run
sun

Adapted from a template created by Dr. K. Roscoe