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Language Activity Lesson Plan

Carmen Garcia

Fresno Pacific University

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Lesson Plan Template

Common Core Standard to be addressed:

Reading 1.0 Concepts about Print

1.1 Display appropriate book-handling behaviors and knowledge of print conversions.

1.2 Understand that print is something that is read and has specific meaning.

Speaking 1.0 Children use nonverbal and verbal strategies to communicate with others.

Focus: Vocabulary production.

1.2 Use new English vocabulary to share knowledge of concepts.

Listening and speaking 1.0 Language use and Conventions

1.1 Use language to communicate with others in both familiar and unfamiliar social situations for

a variety of basic and advanced purpose, including reasoning predicting, problem solving, and

seeking new information.

Title of Lesson: Watch me read

Background Information:

Children will need to know the right way to hold a book.

Children will need to know how to properly turn the pages of a book.

Children will need to know animal sounds.

Objective:

Children will be able to understand that letters make sounds and can be read.

Children will be able to understand that printed words can be read and have meaning.

Children will be able to grasp the concept that there is a right way to hold a gook and turn the

pages of a book.
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Materials:

Six copies of the book Polar bear, polar bear, what do you hear? Written by Bill Martin Jr. and

illustrated by Eric Carle.

Procedure:

Review - Children should be able to make basic animal sounds.

Children should be able to hold a book with minimal assistance.

Overview - Teacher will read the book and demonstrate how to hold and read a book

while pointing to each word as he/ she reads it.

Presentation –

1. Set small group of children down and read the book .

2. Pair the children up in partners

3. Hand each pair on book.

4. Tell the children they will take turns reading the book to each other.

Differentiated Instruction

The different types of learning styles will be as followed:

Visual, the children will see the pictures in the book.

Auditory, the children will be able to listen to the words being read to them.

Physical, the children will be able to hold the book when it is their turn to read.

Kinesthetic, the children will be making the animal sounds as it is read to them in the

book.

Discussion Questions:

1. What was your favorite animal sound and why?

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2. Can you show me the word____________?

3. How do you feel about reading a book to a partner?

4. What did you enjoy about this activity?

5. Do you think we should try it with a different book?

Evidence of Learning:

Children will start acting like they are reading books to friends on free time.

Children will ask for the book to be placed in the library.

Next Steps:

If the children showed evidences of meeting objective, we will make our own book,

writing our own words.

If children did not met this objective, we will try this activity one more time before

making some modification to this lesson, such as using two flash card instead of a whole book.

References
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Carle, E. (1991). Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear? New York, NY: Henry Holt And

Company

California Preschool Foundations volume one (2008). By the California Department of

Education Retrieved from:

file:///C:/Users/Carmen%20Garcia/Downloads/CA_Preschool_Foundations_Volume_1%

20(3).pdf