B. Recognize kindergarten high-frequency words in print, Examples: Dolch word list, lists provided with basals, word walls, etc.

Lesson Plans:

Learning Vocabulary Down By the Bay
This lesson uses a popular children's song that contains several high-frequency vocabulary words to assist students in recognizing, reading, writing, and using the words in several contexts.

Active Reading Using The Enormous Watermelon
Students read rebus versions of nursery rhymes online and identify the main character in each rhyme. Then, during a shared reading of the big book The Enormous Watermelon, they locate the nursery rhyme characters within the story. Following the story, the teacher presents students with high-frequency words from the big book text. Then students play a matching game to integrate these words into their sight vocabulary.
 
Poetry Portfolios: Using Poetry to Teach Reading and Writing

Teach your students about sentence structure, rhyming words, sight words, vocabulary, and print concepts using a weekly poem. These important skills for reading and writing are demonstrated in a whole-to-parts approach using engaging poems, shared reading, and independent activities.
 

Internet Scavenger Hunt
Students will use the computer to answer "color identification questions" by locating bookmarked addresses for specific websites where the answers to the color questions can be found.

Hear It, Spell It, See It
This lesson helps with visual recognition of basic sight words.

Using a Predictable Text to Teach High-Frequency Words
This lesson uses a predictable text to help students learn high-frequency words. Word learning is enhanced by whole-to-part tasks that increase the reader's need to attend to and process the print.
 

Resources:

I Can Read!  Here are some great ideas for centers using environmental print.

Dolch Kit:  Lists of Dolch words and activities

Word Wall Activity List:  A collection of ideas for using the word wall

Suggestions for English Language Learners (ELLs):
(E/B=Entering/Beginning, D=Developing, E=Expanding)

E/B: Match word and picture flashcards.
E/B: Student repeats words with visuals after modeling.
E/B: Recognize when beginning sounds are substituted or omitted.
E/B: Identify and restate format elements of book (i.e. front cover, title, back cover).
E/B: Identify and express beginning sounds of words.
E/B: Follow sequence of words from left to right.
E/B: Identify and restate symbols and signs within classroom and community environment; D: Identify and restate symbols and signs within classroom and community environment; E: Describe symbols and signs within classroom and community environment.
E/B: Recognize some simple sight words; D: Recognize and produce some simple sight words; E: Recognize and produce various sight words.
E/B: Listen and repeat rhyming patterns in language; D: Listen and produce rhyming patterns in language.
E/B: Distinguish between capital and lowercase letters; D: Recognize and identify capital and lowercase letters.
E/B: Identify first sound within a spoken word; D: Identify first and last sounds within a spoken word.
E/B: Read some high-frequency words, including own name; D: Sort some high-frequency words by category; E: Sort and classify most high-frequency words by category.
D: Blend two to four phonemes into recognizable words.
D: Use choral reading following teaching.
D: Identify words by circling or underlining them.
D: Match simple words that are read aloud.
D: Respond to oral directions by placing word cards next to classroom objects.
D: Construct simple sentences with visuals and word cards.
D: Distinguish between individual sounds and syllables; E: Blend vowel-consonant sounds orally to make words or syllables.
D: Begin to correct self when reading simple words or sentences aloud; E: Correct self when reading simple words and sentences aloud.
E: Use more complex words and sentences to communicate needs and express ideas in a wider variety of social and academic settings.

E: Play the concentration game by matching visuals with printed words.
E: Compose a story with classroom words, using pictures and print.

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