Using repetition and picture cues to foster independent young readers
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A lesson plan for grade K English Language Arts
This lesson from ReadWriteThink invites kindergartners to share their knowledge of letters and sounds in a large group setting and gives teachers an opportunity to assess student’s knowledge in this area. Each student contributes a page to make a classroom book that is repetitive in nature.
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 1.03: 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:
