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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School Closed

Tues

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4 

Phonemic Awareness: Children will recognize syllables in words.

Vocabulary: Children will understand story vocabulary.

Reading Comprehension: Children will listen for a purpose. Children will make predictions. Children will follow oral directions.

Emergent Writing: Children will dictate reasons characters might give each other.

- Observe if children can make story predictions.

- Results of activities.

- Morning Message

- Whole Group: Clap the syllables in given words.

- Read Aloud

- Whole Group: Have children make predictions on what will happen next throughout the story.

- Independent Practice: Complete activity sheet on story.

- Whole Group: Have children dictate words to complete the sentence, You should stay in the city because...

- How do you think Country Mouse would feel about the City Mouse’s house? Why do you think so?

- What did you think the Country Mouse would do after she was safe in the City Mouse’s hole? Why do you think so?

- How do you think the Country Mouse felt after she was back in her own house?

- Name things about your home that make you feel the same way.

Wed

Page

4

Phonemic Awareness: Children will recognize syllables in words.

Vocabulary: Children understand sequence words: first, next, last.

Reading Comprehension: Children will recall story details.

High-Frequency Words: Children will learn to identify and read words: look, in.

- Observe if children identify story sequence first, next, last.

- Results of activities.

- Morning Message

- Whole Group: clap for the syllables in given words.

- Read Aloud

- Use pictures to point out details through Q&A.

- Independent Practice: Draw what happened first, next, and last in the story.

- Independent Practice: Identify the word “in” and “look” on the word wall. Use the puppet to tell sentences using “in” and “look.”

- What is the story mainly about?

- Who are the characters?

- Act out what happened first, next, and last.

Thurs

Page

4

Phonemic Awareness: Children will identify same and different word sequences.

Vocabulary: Children will identify shapes: rectangle. Children will understand position words: top, bottom, over, under, left, right.

Reading Comprehension: Children will follow oral directions.

- Observe if children can identify same and different word sequences.

- Results of activities.

- Morning Message

- Whole Group: Use counters to place one counter for each syllable in a word.

- Independent Practice: Identify rectangles in a picture. Use appropriate position words to locate rectangles in picture.

- Whole Group: Listen to a rhyme about two baby mice. Children will listen to find if the mice say the words in the same order.

- Guided Practice: Use CD Track 4 to listen for words in the same order and mark their page. Children will check their own work as the narrator gives the answers.

- Tell the sequence of words.

- How can you put the words in sequence order?

- Compare the two rhymes and tell how they are different.

Fri

Page

4

Phonemic Awareness: Children will recognize syllables in words.

Vocabulary: Children will identify position words. Children will identify shapes: arrow.

Children will identify categories.

Reading Comprehension: Children will follow oral directions.

- Observe if children can categorize objects.

- Results of activities.

- Morning Message

- Whole Group: Place a color square in the pocket chart for each syllable in the given words.

- Independent Practice: Trace long and short lines using green and brown crayons. Then use position words to identify long and short lines.

- Independent Practice: Categorize objects that belong to the City Mouse and the Country Mouse.

- Whole Group: Play the City Mouse and Country Mouse Game by categorizing the kinds of things they like.

Show how to categorize their favorite clothes on the smart board.

- What does it mean to categorize?

- How can you categorize the objects that belong to the City Mouse and the Country Mouse?

- Show how to categorize the things in your closet.

School Grade Weighting Scale:

Tests and Quizzes (50%):

Classwork/ Participation (20%):

Homework (15%):

Projects/ Portfolios (15%):

Use of Technology:

__*__ Smartboard

____ Student Response System