Student of the day: Create sound/letter understanding with names
http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=58
A lesson plan for grades K–2 English Language Arts
This lesson from ReadWritethink uses students’ names and other concrete words to teach the conventions and terminology of print. Kindergarten and first-grade students explore each other’s names, making comparisons between initial sounds, ending sounds, syllabication, and letter shape.
North Carolina Curriculum Alignment
English Language Arts (2004)
Grade 1
- Goal 5: The learner will apply grammar and language conventions to communicate effectively.
- Objective 5.03: Write all upper and lower case letters of the alphabet, using correct letter formation.
Grade 2
- Goal 5: The learner will apply grammar and language conventions to communicate effectively.
- Objective 5.01: Spell correctly using:
- previously studied words.
- spelling patterns.
- analysis of sounds to represent all the sounds in a word in one's own writing.
- Objective 5.01: Spell correctly using:
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 1.03: Demonstrate decoding and word recognition strategies and skills:
- recognize and name upper and lower case letters of the alphabet.
- recognize some words by sight including a few common words, own name, and environmental print such as signs, labels, and trademarks.
- recognize most beginning consonant letter-sound associations in one-syllable words.
- Objective 1.01: Develop book and print awareness:
- Goal 5: The learner will apply grammar and language conventions to communicate effectively.
- Objective 5.01: Develop spelling strategies and skills by:
- representing spoken language with temporary and/or conventional spelling.
- writing most letters of the alphabet.
- analyzing sounds in a word and writing dominant consonant letters.
- Objective 5.01: Develop spelling strategies and skills by:
