Preschool Literacy Lesson

Goals and Objectives for this Unit: Students will be able to:
1. Identify the characteristics of fall and winter
2. Listen for a purpose
3. Compare and contrast
4. Speak in complete sentences
5. Participate in discussions
6. Develop and use contextual clues to supply missing information
7. Use one-to-one correspondence
8. Identify the author and illustrator of a story
9. Develop and awareness of pictures
10. Distinguish between likenesses and differences
11. Make predictions
12. Identify and list story characters
13. Dramatize a story
14. Use expressive language
15. Portray story characters
16. Express character feelings
17. List story elements

Introduced and Reinforced Vocabulary:
• Admire
• Snuffling
• Jostled
• Commotion
• Appeared/Disappeared
• Waft
• Drowsy
• Lumbered
• Scattered
• Silhouetted

IntroducedLetters:
Cc-hard and Ww


Journal Responses for unit:
Day 1: What can you do outside in the winter?
Day 2: What do you wear in the winter?
Day 3: Write about the jacket you would like to wear in the snow.
Day 4: What did the little boy lose?
Day 5: What animals were in the mitten?


Instructional Levels:
There are 2 children at the pre-phonetic level and fourteen early phonetic of literacy development readers. This unit focuses on skill development associated with those emerging readers. Challenge activities are provided during Center time and in small group instruction. These activities are aligned with the Assessment-On-The-Run expectations and individual needs.


Day 1: Thursday December 20, 2007

Objectives:
Children will identify the characteristics of fall and winter, compare and contrast and listen for a purpose. Children will syllabicate words.

Daily Plan:
Objectives:
Retelling teacher statements
Use an uppercase letter to begin a sentence.
Use punctuation.
1. We will read, The Months of School.
2. It is December.
3. We will draw a winter scene.
Materials:
• Harcourt support book: The Months of School
• Chart paper: “T” chart of Fall and Winter

Phonological Awareness Activity:
Syllable Counting activity. Using various winter words have the children clap out the number of syllables in the word.

Methodology:
Introduce the book and the lesson. Use the curriculum guide pages 221-222 for detailed script. Reread The Months of School. Upon completion of the story review things to do and clothing that is worn in fall and winter. List the items on the, “t” chart. Follow example listed on page 221 of curriculum guide.

Centers:
Writing tools and paper are in each center. December 20
(Day 1) December 21 (Day 2) January 2 (Day 3) January 3
(Day 4) January 4
(Day 5) Assessment
Criteria
LITERACY OBJECTIVES:
Voice to print matching
Letter of the alphabet
Beginning sounds
Letter sound association Place snowflakes on a tree (A,B,C’s)
Picture (sound) tiles
Earobics books
Text from the story
Place snowflakes on a tree (A,B,C’s)
Picture (sound) tiles
Earobics books
Text from the story
Alphabet Starters books; matching upper to lower case snowflake letters. Place snowflakes on a tree (A,B,C’s)
Picture (sound) tiles
Earobics books
Text from the story
Starters books; matching upper to lower case snowflake letters. Place snowflakes on a tree (A,B,C’s)
Picture (sound) tiles
Earobics books
Text from the story
Starters books; matching upper to lower case snowflake letters. Place snowflakes on a tree (A,B,C’s)
Picture (sound) tiles
Earobics books
Text from the story
Letter identification

Voice –to-print matching

Retelling

CAP’s

“Wh” questions
MATH OBJECTIVES:
Matching, sequencing, concepts to eight, counting to twenty, sorting; patterning. A,B,C patterning using unifix cubes and cards.
Matching white cotton balls to mittens with numerals.
Count colored bears
Patterning using charts on table. Patterning cards. A,B,C patterning using unifix cubes and cards.
Matching white cotton balls to mittens with numerals.
Count colored bears
Patterning using charts on table.
Patterning cards. A,B,C patterning using unifix cubes and cards.
Matching white cotton balls to mittens with numerals.
Count colored bears
Patterning using charts on table. Patterning cards. A,B,C patterning using unifix cubes and cards.
Matching white cotton balls to mittens with numerals.
Count colored bears
Patterning using charts on table Patterning cards.. A,B,C patterning using unifix cubes and cards.
Matching white cotton balls to mittens with numerals.
Count colored bears
Patterning using charts on table. Patterning cards. Patterning

Color identification

Counting quantities

Sorting
Computers: Identify likenesses and differences in sounds; match rhyming words and construct stories Earobics
Karloon
Farmer Fardle
Kat Pillar
Frogs y Earobics
Karloon
Farmer Fardle
Kat Pillar
Bailey’s Book house Earobics
Karloon
Farmer Fardle
Kat Pillar
Frogs y Earobics
Karloon
Farmer Fardle
Kat Pillar
Frogs y Compound words
Distinguishing sounds
Beginning sounds
Letter identification
Rhyming words
SAND; Explore textures; participate constructively in a group; develop fine motor skills; Retell the story Place ice in sand table and watch how it melts recording the changes. Put white cotton balls in the sand table and use tweezers to remove them. Place winter objects in the sand and use to sift out. Put white cotton balls in the sand table and use tweezers to remove them. Place winter objects in the sand and use to sift out. Properties of water
BLOCKS: Create and continue patterns; develop problem solving skills; work cooperatively Build ice castles with the blocks. Pattern of sled on the floor and children copy the pattern and pretend they are riding the sled. Pattern of sled on the floor and children copy the pattern and pretend they are riding the sled. Pattern of sled on the floor and children copy the pattern and pretend they are riding the sled. Pattern of snowman on the floor and children copy and add features with the blocks. Patterning
Dramatic
Play: Dramatize story elements; stay in center appropriate amount of time; put on and zip their coats. Students can dress dolls an stuffed animals with clothing. Students can dress dolls an stuffed animals with clothing. Students can dress dolls an stuffed animals with clothing
Ice skating rink.. A large mitten is placed in the area and stuffed animals are added. Children dramatize the story, The Mitten. A large mitten is placed in the area and stuffed animals are added. Children dramatize the story, The Mitten. Reenacting the stories
Story elements
Cooperation
Retelling the story
LISTENING:
Objectives:
Develop Listening skills
Listen for pleasure
Listen attentively Sound Starter books from the Earobics package. Letters:((D,B,W,M,L,N,P,G, and F) Sound Starter books from the Earobics package. Letters:((D,B,W,M,L,N,P,G, and F) Sound Starter books from the Earobics package. Letters:((D,B,W,M,L,N,P,G, and F) Sound Starter books from the Earobics package. Letters:((D,B,W,M,L,N,P,G, and F) Sound Starter books from the Earobics package. Letters:((D,B,W,M,L,N,P,G, and F) Beginning sounds

Blending sounds

Letter/sound identification
SCIENCE: Observe likenesses and differences; make comparisons; measurement Observe the daily temperature; magnets box; measurement box. so children can record differences in measurement of objects in the room. Observe the daily temperature; magnets box; measurement box. so children can record differences in measurement of objects in the room. Observe the daily temperature; magnets box; measurement box. so children can record differences in measurement of objects in the room. Observe the daily temperature; magnets box; measurement box. so children can record differences in measurement of objects in the room. Observe the daily temperature; magnets box; measurement box. so children can record differences in measurement of objects in the room. Weather observations
Hot, cold


READING: Tracking, left to right; one-to-one correspondence; retelling a story; participating constructively in a group. Place the story on the easel and let the children retell the story using crisp one-to-one voice to print matching. Change the book daily as the literacy lesson changes books. Place the story on the easel and let the children retell the story using crisp one-to-one voice to print matching. Change the book daily as the literacy lesson changes books. Place the story on the easel and let the children retell the story using crisp one-to-one voice to print matching. Change the book daily as the literacy lesson changes books. Place the story on the easel and let the children retell the story using crisp one-to-one voice to print matching. Change the book daily as the literacy lesson changes books. Place the story on the easel and let the children retell the story using crisp one-to-one voice to print matching. Change the book daily as the literacy lesson changes books. Voice-to-print matching

CAP’s


WATER: To explore a solid turning into a liquid; different textures; develop imagination Add ice to the water table to see what happens. Add ice to the water table to see what happens. Add ice to the water table to see what happens. Cutting snowflakes Cutting snowflakes Properties of water

Cutting
TECHNOLOGY
INTEGRATION:
www.starfall.com
/c/and /w/ www.earlylearningactivities.com file folders (Mitten) and (Snowflakes)
www.preschoolprintables.com Kidsperation Jacket Order activity with Smart Board and LCD projector. www.unitedstreaming.com
Winter
www.janbrett.comfor props for the story dramatization. Beginning sounds
Letter identification
Story elements
Before, after, etc..
WRITING: Objectives:
Sense of word
Develop fine motor skills
Concept of Print
There are three writing centers available in the room for use each day. Write on snowflakes your favorite winter activity.
Pictures of winter activities to stimulate writing.
Theme related chart. Post vocabulary cards in chart and children use them in a story.
Write on snowflakes your favorite winter activity.
Pictures of winter activities to stimulate writing.
Write on snowflakes your favorite winter activity.
Theme related chart
. Write on hand paper and make a mitten story of animals.
Write on snowflakes your favorite winter activity.
Theme related chart
Name identification
COOKING XXXXXXX Hot chocolate XXXXX XXXXX Snow Cones Enjoyment
ART Chalk Drawing of a winter scene. Make snowflakes Open art activity: Draw a boy or girl in winter clothing. Lace a mitten. Place pictures of animals inside. Paper plate snowmen. Fine motor skills

Following directions
CONTENT LESSON The Dancing Hen Earobics supplemental curriculum guide pp.20-21. Have students describe the setting, and predict the outcome of the story. Leave the book available for their use during center time. Writing: Using Earobics lesson guide pp.6-7 Writing, write a story about a group activity that took place. Write the story on chart paper and then have the children rewrite the story on their own paper in small groups. The book, the Four Seasons, Have the children answer questions related to fall and winter. Provide small copies of the book in the Reading Center. Have the children write about the seasons. Target letter C. Follow the instructions in Earobics phonics book page 109. Make a letter chain. Read, Fathead Fred, from Earobics. Follow instructions p. 22 in guide. Have students describe the setting, and predict the outcome of the story. Leave the book available for their use during center time. Story elements

“Wh” questions
Think Aloud Plump and Perky Turkey Franklin’s New Friend Inch By Inch Hopper’s Treetop Adventure Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You See?