Reading Lesson Plan
Word Identification Lesson
by Elise Cadieux

Grade Level: First or second
  

Goal: When given an animal word by his/her teacher, the students will be able to encode and decode it.

Objective: Students will be able to hear individual phonemes in words and place them in the correct position in order to encode animal words. They will do this in cooperative groups with 80% accuracy.

Objective: Students will read and trace with crayon the name of his/her animal independently with 80% accuracy.

   Materials needed:
Animal pictures with corresponding initial letter.
Name of animal printed so students can trace
Crayons
Tape
  

Procedure:

Prior to the students entering the room, the teacher will place
under each of their chairs a picture of an animal and its
corresponding letter. For instance for letter A, the teacher might
use an antelope with a large capital A printed below it.

When the students are seated, the teacher will tell them to
reach under their chairs and take out their pictures.

The students will then be required to go to the front of the

classroom contingent upon the letter they have. For instance,

letter A will go first, then letter B.

Once the students are in the proper order of the alphabet, the

lesson will begin.

The student with letter A will say his letter and the corresponding

picture. “A for antelope.” He will then be required to spell

antelope aloud (this could also be done by ability level, the

teacher could give the more difficult words to the more

accomplished readers and the easier ones to the students who

have more difficulty decoding) by calling the people he needs to

create the word (the others in the group will also help if need

be). For example, if Johnny has N he will call

Johnny , then Sue who has the letter T and so on.. He will

place the people he called in order so that the word will be

spelled correctly, and they will stand in front of the rest

of the students so they can see how the word is spelled. After

this has been accomplished letter A will place his picture of the

antelope and the letter A on the board. The teacher will give

him the word antelope and he will trace it with a crayon and

place it under the picture. The other students will go back

to their place in the alphabet while the next student spells an

animal word. This will continue until all the students in the class

have a turn.

Assessment:

Teacher will evaluate the traced animal word.

Closure:

Upon completion students will identify the letter their animal started with, and will be required to spell the animal words. Students who have difficulty with this will read and spell the name of their animal using the picture and word they had traced previously. Finally, teacher will communicate to students that this lesson is the beginning of their animal unit.

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