FRAME THE LESSON
TEACHER:
CLASS: ELA
LESSON DATE: 10/5-9/15
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Teaching Points & Activities
Engage:
Student Expectations Bundled in Lesson
Noun=Underline
Verb=Italicize
See grid below
Explore:
Saxon
III.B.1 Child separates a normally spoken four-word sentence
into individual words.
III.C.1 Child names at least 20 upper and at least 20 lowercase
letters.
III.C.2 Child recognizes at least 20 letter sounds.
III.C.3 Child produces the correct sound for at least 10 letters.
IV.B.1 Child independently uses letters or symbols to make words or
parts of words.
Resources/Materials:
Required:
Saxon Lessons 25-28
DLM Oral Language Card 15 or 16
Lakeshore Alphabet Tubs
Explain:
DLM Big Book: Eyes, Nose, Fingers, Toes
Elaborate:
Nursery Rhyme: Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes
Optional:
http://www.songsforteaching.com/nurseryrhymes.htm
Evaluate:
III.B.10 Child recognizes and blends two phonemes into real words with
pictorial support.
Frogstreet Letter Song Aa
Havefun teaching
https://youtu.be/hBAuIzZttP4?list=PL05685AAD33707F7B
Storybots https://youtu.be/3guwWkqlaGc?list=PLD9908AF19A9D352A
Literacy
II.D.4 Child uses a large speaking vocabulary, adding several new words daily.
III.A.2 Child uses books and other written materials to engage in prereading
behaviors.
III.D.2 Child uses information learned from books by describing, relating,
categorizing, or comparing and contrasting.
III.D.3 Child asks and answers appropriate questions about the book.
III.B.6. Child can produce a word that rhymes with a given word.
Phonics Letter A-Z Songs: Kid TV
https://youtu.be/y8pZ3F8KB_Y?list=PLDt4VQajKv8zYrZxZwjWDfii4rQPCB-XE
Magnet letters and other alphabet manipulatives
Book: Theme Book Library about Five Senses; The
Listening Walk; Brown Bear, Brown Bear What do
You Hear; Polar Bear, Polar Bear…
Objective/Key Understanding:
Saxon
I can match capital and lowercase letters.
I can identify and recognize the letter Aa and the
sound it makes.
I can identify the initial sound in words.
Literacy
I can identify body parts and the sound that each
part starts with.
I can identify the parts of a book and hold the book
the correct way. I can take care of books.
Closing Product/ Question/ Informal Assessment:
Saxon
Students will sort pictures/objects based on
the initial sound of Aa or not Aa.
Literacy
Students practice retelling the story to their
partner during turn and talk. (Nursery Rhyme)
Students will be able to point to the different parts
of a book and demonstrate how to properly care
for a book.
Stop & Check for Understanding—High Level Questions
Saxon
What is a letter? Where can we find letters? In your name?
What is a vowel? Consonant?
Literacy
Who writes the words in a story? Who draws the pictures?
Can you tell me some body parts that were named in the story?
Critical Writing Prompt:
Saxon
How to form the letter Aa
Pictures/Words that start with Aa
Literacy
Use a body cutout and let students
decorate it and then label it using a book
to help.
Small Group Purposeful Talk Question Stems:
Saxon
What is a word that starts with Aa? What is a word that does not start with Aa?
Literacy
Why do we take care of books? How do we take care of them?
Vocabulary:
Saxon
Vowel, consonant, letter, alphabet, uppercase, lowercase, Aa vocabulary words
Literacy
Author, illustrator, pages, cover, spine, title
Rigor & Relevance: (Real World Connection)
Saxon
Find the letter Aa in the classroom.
Literacy
Why do we need to learn about our body?
Is it important to take care of our body?
Why?
What happens if we don’t take care of our
books?
Engage/Explore/
Explain
Monday
Tuesday
Engage
We are going to read a
story about things we
can do with parts of
our bodies. What is a
body part you can
name? What is
something you do
with that body part?
Explore & Explain
Read the Big Book:
Eyes, Nose, Fingers,
Toes. Read the book
emphasizing the
rhyming words.
Engage
Remind the students
we read the book
Eyes, Nose…
yesterday. Ask what
they remember from
the book.
Explore & Explain
Read the book. Have
students ask questions
about anything they
do not understand.
What do the children
use their legs for?
How do they use their
backs? What is this
child doing?
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Engage
We are going to read
a story about a
woman and a visitor.
A visitor is a person
who comes to spend
time in a place that is
not their own. (Use
an example of
someone who has
visited your class
before) Have you
ever had visitors at
your house?
Explore & Explain
Read the Strange
Visitor (TTB 203).
Read the title and
talka bout the word
strange and why the
visitor might be
strange.
Engage
Eyes, Nose..
What are some of the
characters in this
book? What are some
things the children
do?
Explore & Explain
Re read the story and
ask what the students
are blowing, sniffing,
etc.
Why do you think the
visitor is visiting the
old lady?
Who was the visitor?
Was the visitor real
or make believe?
Elaborate/Evaluate
(center ideas)
Aa is for Airplane
Aa is for Alligator
Aa is for Ant
Jello dig (put letters in a bowl
of jello and they have to dig
them out)
Letter Memory
Labeling and decorating a
body to look like us
Aa is for Airplane
Aa is for Alligator
Aa is for Ant
Jello dig (put letters in a bowl
of jello and they have to dig
them out)
Letter Memory
Labeling and decorating a
body to look like us
Aa is for Airplane
Aa is for Alligator
Aa is for Ant
Jello dig (put letters in a bowl of
jello and they have to dig them
out)
Letter Memory
Labeling and decorating a body
to look like us
Aa is for Airplane
Aa is for Alligator
Aa is for Ant
Jello dig (put letters in a
bowl of jello and they have
to dig them out)
Letter Memory
Labeling and decorating a
body to look like us
Aa is for Airplane
Aa is for Alligator
Aa is for Ant
Jello dig (put letters in a
bowl of jello and they have
to dig them out)
Letter Memory
Labeling and decorating a
body to look like us