Name: Victoria Bone

Date: 11-22-15
Lesson Details
Lesson Title
PHONICS LESSON: Beginning letters
KIDSPIRATION
Content Area: Reading and Writing
Grade Level: K
Date of Lesson: UNKNOWN
UBD Stage I: Identify Desired Results
Lesson Objectives
Students will be able to:
1) Identify the connection between letters and sounds
2) Identify pictures and their matching letter sounds
Standards
PA Standards:
1.1.K.B: Employ word recognition techniques:
Use association strategies to identify letters.
Demonstrate phonological awareness through the segmenting and blending of phonemes.
Use knowledge of letter sound correspondence (alphabetic principle) to decode words in context
ISTE Standards
3. Research and information fluency
Students apply digital tools to gather, evaluate, and use information.

Plan strategies to guide inquiry

Locate, organize, analyze, evaluate, synthesize, and ethically use information from a variety of sources and media.
Evaluate and select information sources and digital tolls based on the appropriateness to specific tasks.

Process data and report results.

When the lesson is complete my goal is for the students to be able to identify beginning sounds of many words and to also be able to
recognize the difference between the beginning sounds of each letter of the alphabet and how these are important in forming words.

Enduring Understandings
Students will be able to identify beginning letters of many words and their sounds.
Students will be able to identify the connection between letters and sounds.

UBD Stage II: Determine Acceptable Evidence

Assessment Tasks
Confirm that students have completed the activity, matching the pictures with the letters appropriately.
If the teacher elects to have students switch to Writing View as explained in Lesson Adaptations below, assess whether the student uses the

first letter/sound when writing the word.

If the teacher elects to have students read the sentences from Writing View aloud as described in Lesson Adaptations, assess whether the
students use the first letter/sound association when reading. Also assess if the student uses the first letter/sound association to monitor their reading.

Formal:

Homework sheet for the student to complete at home and to turn in on assigned date.

Informal:

The activity may be printed after its completion and used as an informal assessment.

Assessment Adaptations
While assessing students with learning disabilities or language barriers the assessment will be an observation of the student in how well they completed
the activity and what parts they struggled on so the teacher can further help them improve and exceed.
Rubric/Scoring Criteria
The lesson itself will not be graded within the Classroom; the teacher will only assess it through observation of the students. The homework will be
graded only by completion.

UBD Stage III: Plan Learning Experiences and Instruction

Materials and Resources

1) Kidspiration
2) Projector
3) Computers or Ipad
Procedures and Content
1.

T: Open Beginning Letters.kia from Kidspiration Starter>Activities>Reading and Writing and read the directions aloud.
S: Open Beginning Letters.kia from Kidspiration Starter>Activities>Reading and Writing and listen to directions.

2.

T: Show students how they can also have directions read to them by using the Listen tool.
S: Practice using listening tool.

3.

S/T: As a class, identify and name the pictures in the blue box.
S: Repeat the picture names, slightly emphasizing the initial sounds.

4.

T: Demonstrate how to drag a picture to a letter and how the picture can be dragged back to the blue box if a student wishes to do so.

5.

S/T: Complete the activity as a group.

S: Complete the activity again independently.

Homework
Beginning sounds worksheet: r,s,t
Directions: The students will be assigned a worksheet to further their practice. In the worksheet the students will first say what each object or animal is
aloud and then circle the beginning letter of each word. This will be the students formal assessment for the lesson.

If Time Activities
Have students switch to Writing View and write a sentence about each picture. Students then may read the sentences aloud. Students may
also switch to Writing View and write the names of the picture only.
Procedural Adaptations/Differentiated Instruction
Assist English language learners in pronouncing the picture words clearly. Have them listen carefully to the word and the beginning sound, as they also
attend to how their lips and tongue are working as the word is pronounced. Should pronunciations of some words be difficult for the student, accept
approximations.
Lesson Reflection
This lesson is very crucial in teaching kindergarten students to read and write. In order to get the basics down, beginning sounds and letters
of word are Important in order to be able to identify and read any words or be able to write at all. This is the beginning of learning all the
important basics of phonemes (sounds.) Understanding the connection between letters and sounds is primary to understanding how words
are constructed.