Element
s of a
Lesson
Little Panda – Unit 3 Week 1 Revised
Monday
LESSON PLANNING GUIDE FOR 21ST CENTURY INSTRUCTION
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Create a Panda – cut
Color Nn is for…. Nut
and glue
for reading stations
Friday
Focus and Review
Vocabulary
Goals
Objectives
and
Essential Questions/
Learning Targets
Essential Question:
How do people, plants and animals change?
Learning Target:
Reading (RI 2) I can find pictures or words that show the big idea.
Writing (WS 7) I can work with others to find out more about an idea.
Speaking/Listening (SL 2) I can answer questions about what someone reads.
Reading Standard (RI 2) With prompting and support, identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.
Writing Standard (WS 7) Participate in shared research and writing projects (Example – Explore a number of books by a favorite author and express opinions about
them.)
Speaking/Listening Standards (SL 2) Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing. A.
Capitalize the first word in a sentence and the pronoun I. B. Recognize and name punctuation. C. Write a letter or letters for most consonant and short vowel
sounds. D. Spell simple words phonetically, drawing on knowledge of sound letter relationships.
Reading – cite, specific, main idea, key details, important, text, connect, link, events, characters, setting
Writing – project, research
Speaking/Listening – capitalize, punctuation, consonants, short vowels, letters, spell
AMAZING WORDS – weigh, measure, healthy, bamboo, curious, explore
DEVELOPING WORDS – panda, paw, leg, wobbly
EXPAND VOCABULARY – fragile, Chinese
SIGHT WORDS – she, with, so, some
Day 1
Read the essential question
and learning target with
students.
Build Background
SF Talk with Me Chart (13A)
SF Sing with Me Chart (13B)
SF Let’s Listen CD
SF ELL Poster
Fluency Builder for the Week
Pandit Bandit
Day 2
Read the essential question
and learning target with
students.
Fluency Builder for the Week
Pandit Bandit
Day 3
Read the essential question
and learning target with
students.
Fluency Builder for the Week
Pandit Bandit
Day 4
Read the essential question
and learning target with
students.
Day 5
Read the essential question
and learning target with
students.
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Pandit Bandit
Fluency Builder for the Week
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LESSON PLANNING GUIDE FOR 21ST CENTURY INSTRUCTION
Introduction of Information
Day 1
 Activities
Watch the Panda Cam to view
live Pandas
 Materials
Haiku Page – San Diego Zoo
Live Panda Cam
 Activities
Picture Walk through the
book to look for clues
about the setting
Teacher will help students
fill in a Circle Map on
the SMART board
Notebook of clues they
found during the picture
walk.
 Materials
SF Text, Chart, CD, Circle
Map on SMART board
Notebook, Little Panda by
Joanne Ryder
Day 2
 Activities
Bb letter song
 Materials
Haiku Page – Letter Songs
(First One)
Day 3
 Activities
Paired Selection
Dinner at Panda Palace
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Day 4
 Activities
Nn letter song
 Materials
Haiku Page – Letter Songs
(Second One)
Materials
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 Activities
Read Aloud
Animals Black and White
 Materials
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Day 5
 Activities
Scholastic Read Aloud Book
Baby Panda
 Materials
Haiku Page – Read Aloud
Book
Day 1
Model fluent reading by
reading the story aloud with
expression.
Model reading strategy of
recall and retell by asking the
questions in the margin of the
text.
Guided Practice
Create a list of “Bb” words
and write them on a chart
paper.
Day 2
Day 3
Day 4
Rotate to 2 Stations today.
Rotate to 2 Stations
today.
Rotate to 2 Stations today.
ST
LESSON
INSTRUCTION
Teacher
StationPLANNING GUIDE FOR 21 CENTURY1.Complete
the following
1.Have children look for the
sentence… If I were a panda
Sight Words in the book
I would eat some ______.
Panda’s Nap – green (lower 2
2. Have children draw a
groups)
picture to illustrate their
The Baby Panda - yellow (top
sentence.
2 groups)
3. Have children read their
2.Read the book together
sentence aloud using their
having children to finger point
finger to point to each word.
as they chorally read each
4. Review nonsense words –
page. Ask that they identify a
use the provided words.
capital and lower case letter as
Touch and say each sound and
they read.
then trace the arrow with their
3.Have children read aloud
finger and say the word
one page at a time. Children
together.
may want to take turns reading
5. Play Word Wall Hang Man
their favorite page.
Using a dry erase board play
4. Play "Stack 'Em Up" Sight
the same as the traditional
Word Towers!
game, but you choose only
Use sight word flash cards and
words from the
ask each child in the group to
word wall. The player that
read a word in turn. Each time
guesses the word wins that
they read a word correctly,
game. Continue playing as
they get to add a block to their
long as time allows.
tower. Use blocks that do
NOT snap together, and the
TA Station
kids usually stay VERY still
1.Create Nn is for… book
and quiet as they try to not
Create a list of Nn words
knock their stack down!
using words heard in the song
or other words students come
TA Station
up with..
1.Create Bb is for … book
Choose 4 pictures from the list
Create a list of Bb words using
of words children developed .
words heard in the song or
TA will write the word chosen
other words students come up
and children will then draw a
with..
picture to illustrate the word.
Choose 4 pictures from the list
Continue until 4 words are
of words children developed .
written and illustrated and
TA will write the word chosen
colored.
and children will then draw a
2. Picture sort Bb and Nn
picture to illustrate the word.
pictures.
Continue until 4 words are
written and illustrated and
Other
colored.
Individual Teacher
2.DIBELS Games
Computer. Listening
Other
Individual Teacher
Computer. Listening
Day 5
Rotate to 2 Stations today.
Independent Practice
Independent
Color and cut our the Bb is
for…. Bear.
Independent
I ndependent
Independent
1. Rainbow Trace – she
1. Rainbow TraceST– with
1. Rainbow Trace – so
LESSON
FOR
INSTRUCTION
Trace
the wordPLANNING
she with red, GUIDE
Trace the
word21withCENTURY
with red,
Trace
the word so with red,
yellow, and blue crayons.
yellow, and blue crayons.
yellow, and blue crayons.
Write she on the dotted lines
Write with on the dotted lines
Write so on the dotted lines
and then on the blank lines.
and then on the blank lines.
and then on the blank lines.
Cut and glue the letters to
Cut and glue the letters to
Cut and glue the letters to
form the word she
form the word with
form the word so
2. Sheet – Circle and Color the
2. Sheet – Mr. Twitchy Tail
pictures whose names begin
Color, cut, match and glue the
like bear.
pictures whose names begin
Back – Trace upper and
with Nn - nail, Ss - seal, Tt lowercase Bb and then write
top.
the letters on the foundations
Back – Trace upper and
paper.
lowercase Nn and then write
the letters on the foundations
paper.
Journal
Suggestions
Journal
Suggestions:
Day Day
1 – Write
aboutabout
one fun
you did
Thanksgiving.
1 – Write
one thing
fun thing
youduring
did over
the Thanksgiving holidays.
Day 2 – Little Panda was about Hua Mei and how she changed. Write about Hua Mei and things she did as she grew.
Day 3 – How is a baby panda different from its mother? Write about it.
Day 4 – We have found out how Hua Mei grew and changed. How have you grown and changed? Write about it.
Day 5 – Compare animal homes thinking back to the books we have read in class.
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Technology:
Real-World Connection:
CRISS Strategy:
Differentiation:
Independent
1. Rainbow Trace – some
Trace the word some with red,
yellow, and blue crayons.
Write some on the dotted lines
and then on the blank lines.
Cut and glue the letters to
form the word some