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Alphabet - Recognizing the letters in your name
What is the lesson (overall purpose)?
MA Guidelines/Standards:
F.PK.1: With guidance and support, demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of printed and written text: books, words, letters, and the alphabet.
a. Handle books respectfully and appropriately, holding them right-side-up and turning pages one at a time from front to back.
b. (Begins in kindergarten or when the individual child is ready.)
c. (Begins in kindergarten or when the individual child is ready.)
d. Recognize and name some uppercase letters of the alphabet and the lowercase letters in one’s own name.
Learning Outcomes:
Songs, Books & Videos (Motivational Techniques)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBDTPHZO-xo Book
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKakY4OQthA ABC Song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rRm7LMxJ2M Book
Materials
Activity (Procedure):
Activity Wrap Up:
How do I know what my child is learning? (Assessment)
Systematic and explicit instruction should include: teacher modeling, practice, and application to authentic reading and writing experiences. Techniques to teach sound-spelling correspondence for decoding unfamiliar words and recognizing some words by sight might include:
How can you extend this activity? (Modifications)
Simply practice writing the letters of your name. You could also pick two letters a day and practice writing those!
Helpful Hints: (Pitfalls & Solutions)
Start off by writing your child's name, then see what letters they can recognize. Once they recognize the letters, practice writing them. Once they have accomplished it, then you can go ahead and have them write the letters on their name on a square to make a flower stem!
Alphabet - Recognizing the letters in your name
What is the lesson (overall purpose)?
- recognize and/or name some uppercase and lowercase letters (especially in their own names).
- begin to notice some letter-sound connections.
MA Guidelines/Standards:
F.PK.1: With guidance and support, demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of printed and written text: books, words, letters, and the alphabet.
a. Handle books respectfully and appropriately, holding them right-side-up and turning pages one at a time from front to back.
b. (Begins in kindergarten or when the individual child is ready.)
c. (Begins in kindergarten or when the individual child is ready.)
d. Recognize and name some uppercase letters of the alphabet and the lowercase letters in one’s own name.
Learning Outcomes:
- provide opportunities that involve linking an initial sound with an object or a printed letter or word in the room (e.g., “I spy something that begins with mmmmm”).
Songs, Books & Videos (Motivational Techniques)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBDTPHZO-xo Book
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKakY4OQthA ABC Song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rRm7LMxJ2M Book
Materials
- Paper
- Scissors
- Coloring Tools
- Glue and/or tape
Activity (Procedure):
- Gather materials
- With adult assistance, have your child cut out the number of squares that are in their name. example; Julia would be 5 squares to cut out
- Write 1 letter on each square, continue doing that for your entire name.
- Organize the square letters in the correct order forming a vertical rectangle.
- Once you have organized your name, you can glue/tape it to the paper!
- When your vertical flower stem name is complete, you can color and decorate a top to the flower!
Activity Wrap Up:
- provide a wide selection of books and board books with illustrations and simple accompanying words for children to explore.
How do I know what my child is learning? (Assessment)
Systematic and explicit instruction should include: teacher modeling, practice, and application to authentic reading and writing experiences. Techniques to teach sound-spelling correspondence for decoding unfamiliar words and recognizing some words by sight might include:
- identifying individual letters and matching them with corresponding sounds;
- pronouncing sounds commonly associated with corresponding letters:
- blending onset-rimes to read one-syllable words (e.g., /c-at/, /b-at/, h-at/); and
- blending letter sounds to decode and read one-syllable words.
How can you extend this activity? (Modifications)
Simply practice writing the letters of your name. You could also pick two letters a day and practice writing those!
Helpful Hints: (Pitfalls & Solutions)
Start off by writing your child's name, then see what letters they can recognize. Once they recognize the letters, practice writing them. Once they have accomplished it, then you can go ahead and have them write the letters on their name on a square to make a flower stem!
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