April 19, 2017

by Jasmine Gibson

Lesson plan

How Many Letters?

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Grade

Kindergarten

Subject

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RF.K.2.b

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English Foundation Phase Reception 2.3.2.B.5 2.3.2.B.6 2.3.2.B.7 2.3.2.B.8 Foundation Phase 3.1.13

Literacy and English First W.2.3

English Key Stage 1 Year 1 3.S.1.a 3.S.1.b 3.S.1.c 3.S.3.a 3.S.3.b 3.S.3.c 3.S.4 3.S.5 Key Stage 1 Year 2 3.S.1.c 3.S.1.d 3.S.1.e 3.S.1.f 3.S.2 3.S.3 3.S.4 4.3.3

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English Foundation W.VCELA157.3

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Learning Objectives

Students will be able to identify how many letters are in their names.

The adjustment to the whole group lesson is a modification to differentiate for children who are English learners.

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Introduction

(5 minutes)

Write your name on the whiteboard or chart paper.
Ask the students if they know how many letters are in your name.

Explicit Instruction/Teacher modeling

(5 minutes)

Demonstrate counting the letters in your name.
Tell your students that different words have different amounts of letters in them.
Point to the alphabet chart and find the letters in your name. Explain that the alphabet chart is a useful tool to use when looking for letters.
Say, “today we are going to count the letters in our names and practice finding those letters on our alphabet chart.”
Display a chart with numbered lines (one to nine) and write your name on the chart. Ask students to point to the number of letters in your name.

Guided Practice

(10 minutes)

Pass out sentence strips and have students write their name on the strip. Have students count the number of letters in their first name.
Invite students to tape their strip onto the number chart.
Ask students to notice which number is the most popular. Have students notice some names are short and some are long.

Independent working time

(15 minutes)

Pass out the Which Letter? worksheet. Ask students to color in the letters in their names and record how many letters are in their names.

Differentiation

Enrichment;

For advanced students, have them complete a worksheet for their middle and last names in addition to their first name.
Encourage students to use complete sentences when sharing with a partner.
Ask students to practice prediciting the number of letters in their middle and last names.

Support;

Prewrite a student name on a sentence strip and work with them to count the letters and identify each letter on the alphabet chart.
Work with a smaller group of students to find the total number of letters in the same words (e.g., class or apple).
As a group, practice one-to-one correspondence when counting.
Review numbers names and counting as needed.

Assessment

(5 minutes)

Collect the worksheets and assess if students were able to accurately find and count the letters in their name.
Students can switch worksheets with a friend and count the letters in their friend’s name.

Review and closing

(5 minutes)

Encourage students to count and spell the letters in their family members names at home that night.
Remind students that using an alphabet chart can help them to identify letters and letter sounds.

Lesson plan

How Many Letters?

Learning Objectives

Introduction

Explicit Instruction/Teacher modeling

Guided Practice

Independent working time

Differentiation

Assessment

Review and closing

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How Many Letters?

Learning Objectives

Introduction

Explicit Instruction/Teacher modeling

Guided Practice

Independent working time

Differentiation

Assessment

Review and closing

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