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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2

Reading:  Children will follow oral directions.  Children will use prior knowledge.

Phonemic Awareness:  Children will provide rhyming words.

Listening/Speaking:  Children will respond to stories read aloud.

Emergent Writing:  Children will dictate sentences.

- Direct observation of read aloud and whole group discussion.

- Results of rhyming game, comprehension activity and dictations.

- Morning Message

- Rhyming Game: Children will use clues to make up rhymes.

- Help children use their prior knowledge by discussing what they already know about turtles.

- Read Aloud/Listen to story from CD.

- Listen for story questions and complete comprehension page in their individual storybooks.

- Have children dictate how the turtle from the story answers when it’s being called.

- Activity: Have volunteers dictate how they would call a friend and record all dictations on the board.

-  What can you tell about this story by looking at the front cover?

-  Show and tell how La Tortuga tricked the children?

-  After visiting our school turtles, what did you learn about real turtles?

Tues

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2

Phonemic Awareness:  Children will provide endings from short rhyming poems.

Letter Recognition:  Children will learn concept of letters.

Children will identify capital E, F and lowercase e, f.

Children will distinguish between letters.

Children will identify A, a; B, b; C, c; D, d.

-  Direct Observation of children who can provide rhyming words.

- Results of letter matching activity sheets.

- Morning Message

- Identify rhyming words in short poems.

- Activity: Have volunteers provide rhyming words or even nonsense words for the ending of a short poem.

- Sing alphabet song and find the order of E and F in the song.

- Identify and distinguish letters Ee, Ff. Use turtle cut outs to match uppercase and lowercase Ee, Ff.

- Identify letter Aa, Bb, Cc, Dd, Ee, Ff.  Use Master Sheet 14 to name and match all letters.

- Activity: Listen for directions and complete Letter matching activity sheet.

- What are rhyming words?

- Use the turtle letters to match the uppercase and lowercase letters.

- Look around the classroom and find uppercase and lowercase letters Ee and Ff.

Wed

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2

Phonics:  Children will identify letter Ee.  Children will idnentify letter sound /e/.

Writing:  Children will practice writing Ee.  

- Results of writing activities.

-  Observe if children can recognize and identify uppercase and lowercase Ee.

- Sing alphabet song.

- Identify letter E on word wall and other areas of classroom.

- Model letter sound /e/.  

- Use pictures to identify words with beginning sound /e/.

- Activity: Have children place pictures with beginning sound /e/ on pocket chart.

- Model how to write Ee.

- Have children trace Ee on their hand.

-  Have children practice writing on their own individual chalk boards.

- Activity Sheet:  Trace letters Ee.

- Find letters E on the word wall.

- Show how to write Ee on your chalk board.

- Tell of things you have at home that have the beginning sound /e/.

Thurs

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2

Reading:  Children will recall story details.

Listening/Speaking:  Children will participate in discussions.  Children will tell an original story.

Vocabulary:  Children will identify shapes: circle, round. Children will identify colors: yellow, red, blue.

- Observe if children can pictures to discuss and recall story details.

-  Results of activity sheets 1 and 2.

- Observe if children can create an original story about the turtles.

- Morning Message

- Use a picture to discuss story details from “La Tortuga.”

- Activity:  Complete activity page 1. Use story picture to find and color round objects with yellow crayons.

- Activity:  Complete activity page 2.  Identify colors.  Use red, blue, and yellow crayons to color the turtles shells.

-  Have volunteers use the pictures from activity page 2 to create stories about the turtles.

- What country does the story La Tortuga take place?

- Use the story picture and tell of things that are round and have the shape of a circle.

- Use your own ideas about turtles to make up a story.

Fri

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2

Phonics:  Children will identify letter Ff.  Children will identify letter sound /f/.

Writing:  Children will practice writing Ff.

- Results of writing activities.

-  Observe if children can recognize and identify uppercase and lowercase Ff.

- Sing alphabet song.

- Identify letter F on word wall and other areas of classroom.

- Model letter sound /f/.  

- Use pictures to identify words with beginning sound /f/.

- Activity: Have children place pictures with beginning sound /f/ on pocket chart.

- Model how to write Ff.

- Have children trace Ff on their hand.

-  Have children practice writing on their own individual chalk boards.

- Activity Sheet:  Trace letters Ff.

- Find letters F on the word wall.

- Show how to write Ff on your chalk board.

- Tell of things you have at home that have the beginning sound /f/.

School Grade Weighting Scale:

Tests and Quizzes (50%):

Classwork/ Participation (20%):

Homework (15%):

Projects/ Portfolios (15%):

Use of Technology:

__*__ Smartboard

____ Student Response System