Teacher Resources for Instructional Planning

Kindergarten, Reading
Std Comprehension VE: Comprehension, a meaning making process, is the primary goal of reading and is constructed through the dynamic interaction between reader and text. Demonstrate comprehension of passages heard by retelling stories and by answering questions. (AL COS 5) (SAT 10)

E. Use picture cues to help predict the meaning (AL COS)

Lesson Plans:

Sheep in a Shop by Nancy Shaw
Beginning to use picture clues to understand a story

Word Meaning Through Conversation and Picture Clues
This is a pre-kindergarten lesson in which children will use pictures that express feelings to demonstrate their understanding of word meanings.

Reading Illustrations
Students explore how illustrations contribute to the telling of a story. They will learn to "read" illustrations as they look at the ways in which pictures reveal information about the characters, setting, and plot of a story.

Using Repetition and Picture Cues to Foster Independent Young Readers
This lesson encourages students to use their knowledge of letters and sounds to make an alphabet book. Each book focuses on a specific letter. The sentence "This is a _____." is written on each page of the book. Each student draws an object that begins with the targeted letter and labels it on the line provided.

Creating a Wall Story
In this lesson, students create a wall story as a means of retelling a story. After hearing a picture book read aloud, students sketch their favorite part of the story. The pictures are shared with and sequenced by the class. Gaps in the storyline are identified and filled by groups of students. The entire story is then posted on a wall, in pictures, for use in a variety of later learning center activities, such as sequencing sentence strips, story mapping, performing reader’s theater and/or creating written retellings of the story.

Letter Books
In this activity, art, writing, conventional spelling, and reading are combined to create a personal "Letter Book" for each child.

Resources:

Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site: Book reviews for Kindergarten: This site offers recommended books to use in the kindergarten classroom.

Goodnight Moon: A week's worth of activities to accompany this Margaret Wise Brown favorite.

Suggestions for English Language Learners (ELLs):
(E/B=Entering/Beginning, D=Developing, E=Expanding)
E/B: Have a students copy a story.
E/B: Create a picture word bank.
E/B: Label illustration about a story.
D: Cut out pictures representing the story and organize in sequential order.
D: Fill in missing words in sentence strips from a story.
E: Expand on class language experience story orally or in writing.
E: Change parts of a story and discuss what would happen.
E: Make a fold-a-book with cut outs and dictate sentences.
E/B: Listen to stories read aloud and respond to comprehension questions by using nonverbal communication or one-or-two word responses.
E/B: Respond to meaning and sequence of stories from a variety of sources through pictures and key spoken words or phrases when prompted; D: Respond orally to stories from a variety of sources with simple sentences; E: Respond to stories from a variety of sources by speaking or writing with simple sentences.
E/B: Identify the title of a book through visual support; D: Identify and restate the title and author of a book; E: Identify and restate the title, author, and characters of a book.
E/B: Convey understanding of basic facts through gesturing (i.e. pointing to pictorial representations), using key words orally, and possibly spoken words and phrases; D: Summarize understanding of basic facts with key spoken phrases or sentences when prompted; E: Summarize plot sequence and main idea with simple sentences and with limited support.

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