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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5

Phonemic Awareness: Children will identify beginning sounds in words.

Reading: Children will act out story and engage in dramatic activities.

- Observe if children can act out story.

- Results of activties.

- Morning Message

- Review word wall

- Whole Group: “Play Guess Who Game” Identify beginning sounds in names.

- Independent Practice: Color, cut and paste story characters on craft sticks.

- Small Group: Use the craft stick puppets to dramatize story and crate a class “Puppet Theatre”

- Name the important parts of this story in order (First, Next, Last).

- If you were Peter what would you have done?

- How would you change the ending of this story if you could?

Tues

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5

Phonemic Awareness: Children will recognize rhyme.

Vocabulary: Children will discuss and understand story words.

Reading: Children will recognize text features.  Children will connect text to experience.

- Observe if children are able to follow the read along and answer comprehension questions.

- Results of activities.

- Morning Message

- Review word wall

- Whole Group: Add a sound to your word to make a new word.

- Whole Group: Introduce vocabulary by using pictures: ink, lark, ocelot, pump, quail, top (toy).

- Poem Read Aloud and Answer Comprehension questions.

- Independent Practice: Draw a picture of your favorite letter animal from the poems.

- What is pictured by the letter E, J etc...?

- Where did the animals in the poems live in comparison to the animals from the story The Tug of War?

- If you were an animal, would you rather live in the zoo or the jungle?

Wed

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5

SLT Day

Phonics: Children will identify ending sounds in words.

Children will identify rhyming words.

- Results of activity.

- Whole Group: Use pictures to provide a rhyming word.

- Independent Practice: Complete activity sheet on ending sounds.

- What is a rhyming word? How do you know?

- Name two words that have the same ending sound.

- Find two objects in our classroom that have the same ending sound.

Thurs

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5

Phonemic Awareness: Children will identify beginning sounds in words.

Listening/Speaking: Children will listen and respond to poems real aloud.

Reading: Children will listen for a purpose and ask questions.

High Frequency Words: Children will identify and read words: make, not.

- Observe if children can respond to poems and ask questions.

- Results to activities.

- Morning Message

- Review word wall

- Whole Group: Take a away the beginning sound in the word to make a new word.

- Read Along - Poems

- Pair Share: Ask your partner questions about the poems.

- Independent Practice: Complete sentences using words: make, not.

- What questions do you have for your partner about the nurse doll?

- Use the picture to tell if the elephant and the hippopotamus would be together like that in the zoo.

- Where do you think animals would be happier in zoos or in wild places?

Fri

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5

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 rehearse and act out story for Spring Show.  

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

School Grade Weighting Scale:

Tests and Quizzes (50%):

Classwork/ Participation (20%):

Homework (15%):

Projects/ Portfolios (15%):

Use of Technology:

__*__ Smartboard

____ Student Response System