Phonics Through Literature: Learning About the Letter "M"
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A lesson plan for grade K English Language Arts
Phonics is an important part of literacy instruction that can be taught within the context of reading children’s literature. This ReadWriteThink lesson incorporates the use of children’s literature, in addition to various learning centers and activities that focus on learning about the letter “m.” Students will learn about phonics by participating in an integrated array of activities, including reading, writing, mathematics, music, art, and technology.
North Carolina Curriculum Alignment
English Language Arts (2004)
Kindergarten
- Goal 1: The learner will develop and apply enabling strategies to read and write.
- Objective 1.01: Develop book and print awareness:
- identify the parts of books and function of each part.
- demonstrate an understanding of directionality and voice-print match by following print word for word when listening to familiar text read aloud.
- demonstrate an understanding of letters, words, and story.
- identify the title, name of the author and the name of the illustrator.
- Objective 1.02: Develop phonemic awareness and knowledge of alphabetic principle:
- demonstrate understanding that spoken language is a sequence of identifiable speech sounds.
- demonstrate understanding that the sequence of letters in the written word represents the sequence of sounds in the spoken word.
- demonstrate understanding of the sounds of letters and understanding that words begin and end alike (onsets and rimes).
- Objective 1.01: Develop book and print awareness:
