Early Childhood Lesson Plan

Early Childhood Education Lesson Plan Learning Experience 1 Teacher Candidate:_______________________ Date of lesson planning:_________________________ Classroom grade: Kindergarten Date of lesson implementation:____________________ School/center:____________________________ Cooperating teacher signature:____________________ Name of the lesson: Letters and Sounds, Introduction Field supervisor signature:________________________ Content areas: Language arts, Letters and Sounds Context of The Lesson (1) Briefly explain how is this lesson related to the classroom’s ongoing curriculum and where does this lesson fit in a sequence of lessons? (2) Provide a brief description of your knowledge about the personal/cultural/community assets of this group of children and their prerequisite skills related to language and literacy development. This is the first of three lessons on letters, sounds, and sentences that will improve the students’ ability to recognize and construct words and sentences. The first lesson is on introduction to letters and sounds where students will identify the sounds that correspond to familiar letters on the alphabet. Teaching phonics at an early age improves the students’ ability to read and write familiar words and communicate effectively. This lesson is part of a three lessons that will allow students to practice their written and spoken language using materials provided in the classroom. The students have prior language of the letters of the alphabet and are able to relate visual presentations to the letters. They can identify the positions of various letters in the alphabet and distinguish between vowels and consonants. This knowledge will be essential in their ability to recognize sounds that correspond to the alphabet and contribute to their learning in subsequent lessons. Central Focus of The Lesson List 2-3 professional learning standards (see websites below) that your lesson will meet: CC.K.R.F.2 Phonological Awareness: Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds CC.K.R.F.2.d Phonological Awareness: d. Isolate and pronounce the initial, medial vowel, and final sounds Please articulate: (1) what SPECIFIC, measurable core concepts, skills, and vocabularies from the learning standards that children will learn from this lesson? What do you want to accomplish in this lesson? (2) What content area does this lesson fit into? Lesson objectives Students will be able to identify letters of the alphabet Students will be able to match letters of the alphabet with alphabet flashcards Students will be able to identify letters on alphabet flashcards with their corresponding sound Vocabulary: Letters, Sounds, flashcards, The core content area for the lesson is English Language Arts Pre-Assessment of Core Concepts/Skills (1) Assess what children already know about the specific core concepts, skills, and vocabularies that you aim to teach in this lesson BEFORE its implementation. Revise the central focus of the lesson if it is too hard or too easy for children based on the assessment. (2) The assessment can be formal or informal, and in the format of rubric, rating scale, checklist, frequency count, anecdotal recording, and etc; Check off to confirm: ___X____ The pre-assessment has been done before the lesson implementation. Design an assessment to evaluate exactly where children are in terms of the skills that you aim to teach in the lesson (you will evaluate again after the lesson implementation to see how much children have learned). I will ask students to identify some of the letters of the alphabet prior to the lesson to test their pre-assessment knowledge prior to implementation of the lesson. Planning for Instruction Describe the ways in which the lesson addresses the active and multimodal nature of children’s learning and language/literacy development Students will actively participate in the lesson by identifying letters of the alphabet, matching them with flashcards, and identifying matching sounds to the letters. They will apply their prior knowledge in letters and sounds while listening to instructions and observing as I demonstrate the lesson activities. The learners will use their existing knowledge in phonics to respond to group questions and participate in individual activities during the lesson. Describe the developmentally appropriate materials supporting the central focus/learning goals of this lesson. The materials for the lesson will include: Alphabet blocks for the students Alphabet flashcards Chart and markers Wargin, K. J. (2010). L is for Lincoln: An Illinois Alphabet. Sleeping Bear Press. (1) Describe at the beginning of the lesson, how would you introduce its central focus to children and engage their interests? (2) Describe at the end of the lesson, how would you summarize and loop back to ensure that children understand its central focus and extend their language and literacy development? The first step during the introduction of the lesson is to engage the learners and capture their attention to the learning activities. The introduction will entail the use of flashcards to introduce each of the letters of the alphabet. At this age, most of the students are aware of the alphabet and the introduction would bring their attention to