Lesson Plan of the Day

•   Unit Topic or Theme: Learning to Read

•   Grade: Kindergarten

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•   Lesson Topic or Theme: Learning short a sounds (an,at)

•   Lesson Objectives: The student will be able to recognize the short a sound in high frequency words. Students will be able to demonstrate basic knowledge of one-to-one letter-sound correspondences by producing the primary sound or many of the most frequent sounds for each consonant. Students will be able to read a short story using words with that have the short a sound.

•   Instructional Technique: Independent work using interactive website.

•   Instructional Materials: Interactive Website (Starfall.com), follow up matching activity.

•   Theoretical Perspective: It is important for students to learn the short a sound because it is one of the building blocks of the English language. The short a sound is found in many common words. Students will practice understanding and hearing the vowels properly. By learning this concept they will also improve spelling, reading, speech, and comprehension.

•   Procedure:

A.  Step-by-step

1.     Teacher will have a document open with links to activities.

2.     Students will click on link 1 and complete the first activity (an).

3.     Students will click on link 2 and complete the second activity (at).

4.     Students will click on link 3 and listen/interact/read aloud the interactive book on the website (Zac the Rat).

5.     Students will complete a matching activity.

B. Closure: Students will read book (Zac the Rat) aloud to the teacher using a printed copy of the book provided by the teacher upon completion of the 3 previous activities.

C. Adaptations for different learners: For non-native speakers or struggling readers we will adapt the lesson by having them listen to the story Zac the Rat several times to pick up on the sound of the short a. The teacher will work with these students on the pronunciation of the short a sound instead of having them do the other activities and reading the book aloud.

D. Homework: Practice reading the printed copy of Zac the Rat.

•   Evaluation:

A.   We will determine if the students have met our objectives by having them read the book Zac the Rat to us. If they are able to read it without mistakes then we will be able to determine that they were able to complete the activities successfully and understand the short a sound.

B. Concerns or questions: One concern that we have is that students will have a difficult time completing this lesson due to their possible lack of simple computer knowledge.