Teacher Resources for Instructional Planning


Kindergarten, Language Arts Language Expression: Use appropriate listening and speaking behaviors (COS 15)

Lesson Plans: Integrating Language Arts Using If You Give a Mouse a Cookie Students learn about cause-effect relationships during a shared reading of the book and then complete a cloze exercise that uses context and initial consonant clues. Then students create story circles that display the events of the story and use these circles to retell the story to a peer. I Plan My Work The children develop speaking skills—asking and answering questions, participating in discussions, and telling stories. I'm Special Books In this lesson, students create books and share them with the class. The Little Red House These activities will help develop appropriate listening skills.

Resources: Help Your Child Learn to Listen: A parent resource guide Taking care of Whoville: This activity reinforces listening skills, comprehension, retelling, brainstorming solutions, extending and writing. Suggestions for English Language Learners: (E/B=Entering/Beginning, D=Developing, E=Expanding) (E/B) Use visuals to aid students’ comprehension. (E/B) Have student respond chorally. (E/B) Have student clap out the rhythm of a poem. (E/B D, E) Students look at speakers and respond appropriately to their facial expressions. (E/B D, E) Students follow directions and respond to commands. (D) Students retell individually or with a partner. (D) Students listen to a book or tape of a story which has a simple, predictable pattern. (D) Students supply missing words when story is read aloud. (D, E) Students listen to a story being read or told and then retell the story (paraphrasing the important parts). (D, E) Students show interest in what others have to say and respond appropriately to material read, heard, or viewed. (E) Students respond orally to questions. (E) Students tell if a pattern is correct or incorrect by substituting a word or phrase choice.
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