Lesson Plan

Monday, December 8, 2014

Subject: Literacy
Curriculum Goals:
GeneralLearnerExpectation:The child listens, speaks, reads, writes, views and represents to explore thoughts, ideas, feelings and
experiences.
SpecificLearnerExpectations:Thechild
DiscoversandExplores
Expressesideasanddevelopsunderstanding
Shares personal experiences prompted by oral, print and other media texts
Talks about ideas, experiences and familiar events.
Experimentswithlanguageandforms
Talks and represents to explore, express and share stories, ideas and experiences.
ClarifiesandExtends
Considerstheideasofothers
Listens to experiences and feelings shared by others. Combinesideas
Connects related ideas and information.
Extendsunderstanding
Expresses interest in new ideas and experiences.
UsesStrategiesandCues

Understands that stories, information and personal experiences can be recorded in pictures and print and can be listened to,
read or viewed
Usescomprehensionstrategies
Reads own first name, environmental print and symbols, words that have personal significance and some words in texts.
Usestextualcues
Attends to print cues when stories are read aloud
Begins to identify some individual words in texts that have been read aloud.
Usesphonicsandstructuralanalysis
Begins to make connections among sounds, letters, words, pictures and meaning
Hears and identifies sounds in words
Associates sounds with consonants that appear at the beginning of personally significant words.
Usesreferences
Copies scribed words and print texts to assist with writing.
Experiencesvarioustexts
Participates in shared listening, reading and viewing experiences, using oral, print and other media texts from a variety of
cultural traditions and genres, such as picture books, fairy tales, rhymes, stories, photographs, illustrations and video
programs
Listens and views attentively
CreatesOriginalText
Generatesideas
Contributes ideas and answers questions related to experiences and familiar oral, print and other media texts.
Structurestexts
Draws, records or tells about ideas and experiences
Talks about and explains the meaning of own pictures and print.
Structurestexts
Draws, records or tells about ideas and experiences

Talks about and explains the meaning of own pictures and print.

PlansandFocuses
Focusesattention
Attends to oral, print and other media texts on topics of interest
Makes statements about topics under discussion.
Determinesinformationneeds
Asks questions to satisfy personal curiosity.
Recordsinformation
?represents and talks about ideas and information; dictates to a scribe.
Evaluatesinformation
?shares new learnings with others.
SharesandReviews
Sharesideasandinformation
?shares ideas and information about topics of interest.
EnhancesandImproves
Enhanceslegibility
Forms recognizable letters by holding a pen or pencil in an appropriate and comfortable manner
Explores the keyboard, using letters, numbers and the space bar.
Enhancesartistry
Experiments with sounds, colours, print and pictures to express ideas and feelings.
AttendstoConventionsAttendstogrammarandusage
Develops a sense of sentence.
Attendstospelling
Hears and identifies dominant sounds in spoken words
Demonstrates curiosity about visual features of letters and words with personal significance
Connects letters with sounds in words
Prints own name, and copies environmental print and words with personal significance.
Attendstocapitalizationandpunctuation
Recognizes capital letters and periods in print texts
Capitalizes first letter of own name.
Enhancespresentation
Uses drawings to illustrate ideas and information, and talks about them.
Useseffectiveoralandvisualcommunication
Speaks in a clear voice to share ideas and information.
Demonstratesattentivelisteningandviewing
Follows one- or two-step instructions
Makes comments that relate to the topic being discussed.
RespectsOthersandStrengthensCommunity
Useslanguagetoshowrespect
Uses appropriate words, phrases and statements with adults and peers when speaking and listening, sharing and taking turns.
WorkswithinaGroup
Cooperateswithothers

Participates in class and group activities

Finds ways to be helpful to others.
Worksingroups
Listens to the ideas of others

Length of Lesson: 1hr

Materials:
Read Aloud
Paper and Pencils
Alphabet Cards
Two Blankets
Bowling Pins
Baskets for snowballs
White board and marker to record small words and rules

Literacy Routines:
Morning Message: Will introduce activity in message content, and start discussion.
INTRO: Read Aloud: Discuss front cover, back cover, title, author, illustrator,
predictions. Ask for predictions at key points in story. Share personal connections at end.
Discuss our activity and ask the children to come up with rules. Movement break: Acting
out the rules in a pretend snowball fight.
Lesson Activity: Writing:
Students pull a letter card from the box and go to their seat to write it on paper. At
carpet we place our letters in the order of the alphabet and look for what is missing.
Teacher collects sheets and divides the students into two teams (mixed ability). Students
each have a chance to name the letter to win that snowball for their team. The student
written letter goes into their basket if they guess correctly. Practice the sound as well- if
they know it only that student says the sound, if they dont the whole class sings.
When all sheets are in a basket ask teams to build a word. Record words on white
board and team with the most small words wins. Winner gets two pins instead of one.
Teams build forts with desk and blanket. Review the safety rules. Put bowling pin(s)
on chair in front of the fort. First team to knock down the others pin wins.

Play an additional round wearing hat and mitts for an added gross motor
challenge.

Conclusion: Clean up while singing the alphabet.

Assessment: Observe students listening skills at carpet and during lesson (checklist).
Scaffold students and make note of students who need extra guidance/more practice in
concepts. Record on sticky note problem solving and building small word strategies.
Assess their letter formation for appropriate pencil grip, top to bottom formation, and
offer guidance on printing strokes.