Knox County Schools

Family and Consumer Science- Teaching as a Profession

Teacher: Alison Napier

Class: 4 year olds
Course Unit: learning the letter R
Lesson Title: The letter R
LESSON OVERVIEW
The children will be working with the letter R
STANDARDS
Starts to develop an awareness of beginning sounds in words
V. Language and Literacy
V. Using letter names and sounds

ASSESSMENT/EVALUATION
Students will produce a unit plan by Nov. 1st. They will use the Team Format. The scope and sequence will be
Submitted first in the process allowing one week of contemplation and consideration for the inclusions of
Gardners multiple intelligence theory in each lesson along with Marzanos 9 techniques. Scaffolding will be
used to build a unit by asking for one lesson plan to be turned in checking for a checklist of
expectations to include in the unit.

-Self evaluation of Unit

-Teacher evaluation of Unit
-Unit Completion and incorporation of major elements expected to be present

-Use of time to research

MATERIALS

Aligned with the Lesson Objective

Rigorous & Relevant

The mystery bag with the letter of the week

Work sheets for homework
Crayons
Music

ACTIVATING STRATEGY
Actual lesson scripting
begins here

Motivator/Hook
An Essential Question encourages students to put forth more effort
when faced with a complex, open-ended, challenging, meaningful
and authentic questions.

How do you do know if a letter starts with and R and how do you draw one?

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Family and Consumer Science- Teaching as a Profession

INSTRUCTION

Step-by-Step Procedures-Sequence
Discover/Explain Direct Instruction
Modeling Expectations I Do
Questioning/Encourages Higher Order Thinking
Grouping Strategies
Differentiated Instructional Strategies to Provide Intervention &
Extension

What are some common mistakes?

Sing the letter song

Look in the mystery bag to find out the letter
Trace it
People say if they have or if they know anyone with an R in their name and say if it is lower case
or upper case
Pass out the work sheets
Tell them to put them in there cubbies

GUIDED & INDEPENDENT

PRACTICE

We Do-You Do
Encourage Higher Order Thinking & Problem Solving
Relevance
Differentiated Strategies for Practice to Provide Intervention &
Extension

Children will go home and find one thing that starts with an R and bring it to class the next day
to show the other children and the children will repeat the word and they will learn things that
lay around there house in there everyday lives that begin with the letter R.

CLOSURE

Reflection/Wrap-Up
Summarizing, Reminding, Reflecting, Restating, Connecting

Remind the students that they need to bring something to show the class tomorrow and ask 2
kids if they can draw an upper case R and a lower case R up on the board.

CROSS-CURRICULAR
CONNECTIONS

They sing, spell, and recognize