Teacher Resources for Instructional Planning


Kindergarten, Language Arts Language Expression: Express meaning through writing - drawing pictures, scribbling, writing strings of letters, approximating spelling, and developing a collection of correctly spelling high-frequency words (COS 20)

Lesson Plans: Animals on the Move Students will choose an animal, draw the animal, write a sentence naming their animal and write a sentence about what their animal can do using inventive as well as conventional spelling. Going on a Shape Hunt: Integrating Math and Literacy Students are introduced to the idea of shapes through a read-aloud session with an appropriate book. They then use models to learn the names of shapes, work together and individually to locate shapes in their real-world environment, practice spelling out the names of items/shapes they locate, and reflect in writing on the process. Animals Don't... Students complete writing prompts and draw a picture. Poultry in Motion: The Little Red Hen Meets Chicken Little This unit integrates reading and writing by having students students respond to these two stories.

Resources: Writing Workshop Practice Handwriting Using Shaving Cream The Very Hungry Kindergartner Lesson Plan to follow up the Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle Suggestions for English Language Learners: (E/B=Entering/Beginning, D=Developing, E=Expanding) (E/B) Students draw pictures of ideas described by the teacher. (E/B, D) Students label classroom objects (in their first language and/or in English). (E/B, D) Students create a picture word bank. (D) Students become familiar with letters of the alphabet by copying letters correctly into a notebook. (E) Students develop a collection of correctly spelled high-frequency words from student-generated work. (E) Students compose a story with classroom words, using pictures and print.
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