CHD 118 Story Box

Lesson Plan Format

Name: Dena Sommers
Title of Lesson

Color Match The Puppy

Title of Emphasis
Listening/Speaking OR
Reading/Writing
Content Area

Reading/Writing

Identify Colors in Text

Targeted Age Group
4
Standards: Milestones of Early Learning, VA Foundation Blocks, or VA Standards
of Learning (SOLs)
a) Listen with increasing attention to spoken language, conversations, and stories read
aloud
b) Correctly identify characters, objects, and actions in a picture book, as well as stories
read aloud, and begin to comment about each
e) Use appropriate language for a variety of purposes, e.g., ask questions, express
needs, get information
f) Engage in turn taking exchanges and rules of polite conversation with adults and
peers
a) Use single words to label objects
b) Listen with increasing understanding to conversations and directions
c) Follow simple, one-step oral directions
d) Engage in turn taking exchanges with adults and peers
e) Use new vocabulary with increasing frequency to express and describe feelings and
ideas
f) Expose children to a wide-variety of experiences to build vocabulary
a) Discriminate similarities and differences in sounds (environmental, letter)
c) Successfully detect beginning sounds in words
d) Listen to multi-syllable words
a) Correctly identify 10-18 alphabet (uppercase) letters by name in random order
b) Select a letter to represent a sound (8-10 letters)
c) Correctly provide the most common sound for 5-8 letters
d) Read simple/familiar high-frequency words, including his or her name
e) Notice letters around him/her in familiar, everyday life, and ask how to spell words,
names or titles
Learning Objective(s): (What do you want children to understand after completing this
lesson?)
After this lesson the students should be able to:
1. Identify the words - Dog and correct color block
2. Put words and colors together with the correct color
3. Read the color words correctly aloud
4. To write the colors words with correct color marker on whiteboard
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Resources/Materials Needed: (What resources will the teachers and the children
use?)
Felt Board with shapes of a color block and dog in different colors with velcro on
the backside. Whiteboard and colored markers.
Strategies: (How will the teacher engage the children? What activities will the children
complete? Indicate the teacher questions/prompts, expected child action, and the
closing portion. Indicate at which point the students are teacher-directed and at which
point they are child-directed.)
The teacher will engage the children by instructing the children to match the
correct dog with the correct color block. The teacher will explain the game of how
to get the doggie to match which is teacher directed. Children putting the correct
dog with the correct color which is child directed. The child will then use the
whiteboard and write the words on the whiteboard in the correct color of the color
marker they are writing. The child will know the lesson is completed when they
have matched all the correct colors to make words and have written all the colors
on the whiteboard.
Adaptation for Learner Diversity: (How can this lesson be adapted or structured for
children with special needs or different age groups?)
This activity would be guided one on one for a special needs child.
Assessment: (How will you determine the extent to which the children grasped the
concept?)
A child will grasp the concept when the dog is matched to the correct color and
the colors are written correctly on the whiteboard.
Optional Analysis/Reflection: (How well did this lesson work? Would you change
anything next time?)
This lesson was engaging and the children enjoyed it.
Source of Idea/Information:
Book and internet