Teacher Resources for Instructional Planning


Kindergarten, Language Arts Language Expression: Exhibit expanded vocabulary and sentence awareness - exploring reading and writing through interactions with language, using new vocabulary in speaking and writing, and recognizing when simple sentences fail to make sense (COS 17)

Lesson Plans: Sensing It Up A great lesson in which a student has to distinguish between letters, words, and sentences. This lesson also incorporates the five senses. Who Took the Cookies Several activities to accompany Who Took the Cookies from the Cookie Jar. Buy, Sell, and Tell This is a whole language lesson that incorporates food vocabulary, basic concepts of matching, color, and number, as well as turn taking. Butterfly, Butterfly: Teaching Vocabulary This activity uses informational text to teach vocabulary.

Resources: Little Explorers Dictionary: Over 2,000 illustrated dictionary entries! Each word is used in a meaningful example sentence. Most entries have links to a related web site. Just click on an underlined word (or its accompanying picture), and you'll link to a great web site related to it. Rebus Rhymes: These are designed for children who are learning how to read. Preschoolers and kindergartners enjoy picking out the words they can read in their favorite nursery rhymes. A reproducible book on being thankful Suggestions for English Language Learners: (E/B=Entering/Beginning, D=Developing, E=Expanding) (E/B) Students listen during shared reading, group discussions, story retelling, and dramatization of stories. (E/B) Students track vocabulary words in big books by using highlighting tape. (E/B) Use pictures/visuals to accompany vocabulary and sentences. Pictures should show specific vocabulary. (E/B) Model reading from left to right. (E/B) Point to isolated words as a sentence is read. (E/B) Demonstrate where words begin and end. (D) Have students use choral reading following teacher. (D) Students identify words in sentences by circling or underlining them. (D) Students construct simple sentences with visuals and words. (D) Students respond appropriately with feedback during shared reading, group discussion, story retelling, and dramatization of stories. (D, E) Students participate in shared reading and writing activities by responding to questions involving sequence of events and story elements. (D, E) Students engage in word-study activities by demonstrating the differences between synonyms and antonyms. (D, E) Students use new vocabulary when speaking and writing and recognize when simple sentences fail to make sense. (E) Students practice recently learned language by teaching a peer. Teacher and students explore alternative ways to say things. (E) Student points and “reads” a sentence. (E) Student dictates a sentence and “reads” to a peer. (E) Student unscrambles word cards to match a printed sentence.
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