ESSENTIAL

LEARNINGS

OUTCOMES

What will the students know or be able to do at the end of the lesson?

ASSESSMENT

How will the students demonstrate that they have accomplished the desired outcome?

STRATEGIES

In what activities will the students be engaged to accomplish the desired outcome?

3 HOTS QUESTIONS

e.g. one should be on knowledge, one on application, and one on synthesis or evaluation.

Mon

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Phonemic Awareness: Children will recognize syllables in words.

Vocabulary: Children will use story illustrations to understand story vocabulary:tug, reflection, vine, jungle, elephant, hippopotamus, clever.

Reading Comprehension: Children will listen for a purpose and answer questions about a story.

- Observe if children can use pictures to identify story vocabulary.

- Observe if children can answer comprehension questions.

- Results of activity.

- Morning Message

- Review word wall

- Whole group: Children will hop for each syllable as they say the word.

- Read Aloud

- Whole Group: Use pictures to point out key vocabulary.

- Identify story details through Q&A.

- Independent Practice: Draw a picture about the main character and what they learned about that character.

- What do you know about the turtle, elephant, and hippopotamus?

- Tell what the turtle wanted to prove to the elephant and the hippopotamus.

- How would you feel if you were the turtle at the end of the story? Why?

Tues

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Phonemic Awareness: Children will recognize syllables in words.

Phonics: Children will identify and distinguish between uppercase and lowercase letters Rr, Ss, and Tt.  Children will identify letter sounds /r/, /s/, and /t/.

Writing: Children will practice writing uppercase and lowercase letters Rr, Ss, and Tt.

Vocabulary: Children will identify color word: orange.

- Observe if children distinguish between letters Rr, Ss, and Tt and their sound.

- Observe if children are able to identify color word “orange.”

- Results of activity.

- Morning Message

- Review Word Wall. Identify color word “orange” and identify classroom objects that are orange.

- Whole Group: Use the name of animals and clap for each syllable.

- Whole Group: Identify letters and letter sounds on starfall.com. Use pictures on smart board to identify beginning sounds /r/, /s/, /t/.

- Guided Practice: Model and practice how to write letters Rr, Ss, Tt on their individual black boards.

- Independent Practice: Use an orange crayon to match uppercase and lowercase letters.

- Name orange objects around the classroom.

- Where in the alphabet song can you find letters R, S, and T?

- Tell which pictures have beginning sounds /r/, /s/, and /t/.

Wed

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Phonemic Awareness: Children will recognize syllables in words.

Reading Comprehension: Children will distinguish between fantasy and reality.

Emergent Writing: Children will dictate words and phrases.

High-Frequency Words: Children will identify and read words: up and down.

- Observe if children can distinguish between real and fantasy.

- Observe if children can identify words “up” and “down.”

- Results of activities.

- Morning Message

- Review Word Wall

- Whole Group: Use animal names to clap the syllables in the names.

- Read Aloud

- Whole Group: Children will use the illustrations to identify real and make-believe.

- Independent Practice: Use a double sided paper to draw a picture of something that was real and make-believe from the story.

- Guided Practice: “Squaker” the puppet will help the children use the words “up” and “down” in a sentence and identify them on the word wall.

- Independent Practice: Use a sentence starter and dictate words about themselves as I write the words on the board.

- Name the characters in the story.

- Which illustrations show something that could happen or something that could not happen?

- Tell a story of things that can happen and things that cannot happen in our classroom.

Thurs

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Reading Comprehension:

Children will retell and act out “Mr. Brown can Moo, can You?” by Dr. Seuss.

- Observe if children can retell the story.

- Morning Message

- Review word wall

- Listen to story “Mr. Brown can Moo, can You?

- Whole Group: Children will act out story.

- What is the story mainly about?

- Who are the characters in the story?

- Tell what happened first, next and last in the story.

- (Assign a character to each child) Retell and act out “Mr. Brown can Moo, can You?”

Fri

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School Closed

School Grade Weighting Scale:

Tests and Quizzes (50%):

Classwork/ Participation (20%):

Homework (15%):

Projects/ Portfolios (15%):

Use of Technology:

__*__ Smartboard

____ Student Response System