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Lesson Plan: Animal Alphabet

Enter your name and specific age group(s) to use this lesson: Jessica Fancy; Grade 1, Reading

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“Big Idea” this lesson plan supports:  Help students learn and better understand the alphabet, the sounds the letters make, and what letter different animals begin with.

Lesson Plan Component	Criteria
Title - Name of Lesson	Animal Alphabet
GSE’s/GLE’s/ Frameworks/Common Core/NETS- Standards (listed under Course Documents)	* Language Arts: Using viewing skills and strategies to understand and interpret visual media: Understands the main idea or message in visual media (ex: pictures, cartoons, visual narratives) * Language Arts: Uses the general skills and strategies of the reading process: Understands that print conveys meaning (knows that printed letters and words represent spoken language)
Lesson Objective(s) - The Student can or will … using a verb from Blooms Revised Taxonomy Sub Categories Each of the categories or taxonomic elements has a number of key verbs associated with it Lower Order Thinking Skills (LOTS) Remembering - Recognising, listing, describing, identifying, retrieving, naming, locating, finding Understanding - Interpreting, Summarising, inferring, paraphrasing, classifying, comparing, explaining, exemplifying Applying - Implementing, carrying out, using, executing Analysing - Comparing, organising, deconstructing, Attributing, outlining, finding, structuring, integrating Evaluating - Checking, hypothesising, critiquing, Experimenting, judging, testing, Detecting, Monitoring Creating - designing, constructing, planning, producing, inventing, devising, making Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS)	Students will recite the alphabet and identify the sounds each letter makes Students will understand that printed letters represent spoken language Students will identify and write down names of animals that begin with particular letter sounds Students will research online for animals Students will create a powerpoint of the alphabet using animals Students will work together as a small group to create their powerpoint Students will watch a video on youtube as a whole class
Materials - What will they need to complete this assignment? Be as specific as possible.	Computers ( 1 per a group of 3) Projector to watch video with speakers attached Paper to write the animals down on Alphabet strip that is posted on the wall somewhere in the classroom Powerpoint on the computers to create their own powerpoints
Anticipatory Set - Prior Knowledge - How will you “hook” students prior to teaching the lesson	In order to hook the students to the lesson: * Students will watch the video Albert and the Alphabetimals-Animal Alphabet http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09AwZNT9mJc
Procedures - What will student and teacher do? Best practices - Ask 3 questions here to promote higher order thinking related to lesson plan.	1. After watching the video, as a class the teacher and students will review the letters of the alphabet and what sounds each letter makes. 2. The class will be told that they are going to make a powerpoint as a group using the alphabet and animals. 3. The teacher will split the class into groups of 3 4. The students will get into the groups and brainstorm on paper what animal they want to use for each letter. They will first try to think about what animals they want to use by themselves. If they are having trouble with finding an animal they can go on the website that we provide for them website: http://a-z-animals.com/animals/    http://www.animalstown.com/animals/animals-a.html 5. After the students know which animals they are going to use, they can start creating their powerpoint. 6. The powerpoint has to include the following          - One page for each letter of the alphabet          - The letter of the alphabet has to be on the page          - The name of the animal needs to be on the page          - A picture of the animal needs to be on the page          - One interesting fact about the animal needs to be on the page
Closure - How will you have students reflect on what has been learned in this lesson?	As a closure to the lesson, when the students are done completing their powerpoint they will present it to the class. After a group presents to the class we will take a few minutes and go around the class telling the group what we liked about their powerpoint. The teacher will send the students powerpoints to their parents, so they see the work they did
Assessment- Assessment is directly correlated to stated objectives (listed above) and provides an opportunity for every student to demonstrate progress toward meeting the objective(s)   Create a rubric that shows objectives relating to project. - Assessment can be completion of project. Something student creates.	The following rubric will be used when grading the powerpoint http://rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php?screen=ShowRubric&module=Rubistar&rubric_id=2377486&
Modifications/ Accommodations Lesson plan includes appropriate modifications and/or accommodations for students needing enrichment, remediation, or alternative strategies Students with IEP - Individualized Educational Plans or 504’s would require modifications or accommodations -	Modifications will include the following * Keeping in mind the students IEP plan * Students will be grouped with a strong student, and a student that needs some help * Extra helpers will be in the classroom for groups that need extra help
Student Artifact:	https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1srsR-IpETE3DUmKFLGusRNIn5rTsAA-22AwgEboenPg/edit#slide=id.p13