Instructor: Nikki Temple Lesson Title: Letter T Curriculum Area: Language Arts

Grade Level: Pre-school Date: 11/20/13 Estimated Time: 15 minutes

Standards Connection: LL.P.7.2. Show progress in identifying the names of letters and the sounds they represent. Inferred IEP goal: The student will be able to recognize letters. Learning Objective: The student will be able to determine what objects start with the letter t as evidence by completion of given worksheet with 80% accuracy. Evaluation of Learning Objective: The student will complete the What begins with T worksheet with 80% accuracy. The student should color the item that start with the letter T and then draw a line from the turtle to the corresponding item. Engagement: Good morning boys and girls! Who can tell me what holiday is coming up next week? (Students respond) Thats right Thanksgiving is next week. Who knows what letter Thanksgiving starts with? (Students respond). Thanksgiving starts with the letter T. Design for Learning: I. Teaching: Who knows what sound T makes? (Students respond). T makes a ta sound like tomatoes. Is a tomato a fruit or vegetable? (Student responds) Thats right a tomato is a fruit and many people eat tomatoes on Thanksgiving. What else starts with a ta sound? (Students respond). What about table, does it start with a t? (Students respond) Opportunity for Practice: I want to be sure you all can recognize the letter T. On the back of this worksheet I want you to write your name, use your name cards to be sure it is spelled correctly. (Give students time to write there name) Who knows how to write the letter T? (Students respond) Thats great this will just be practice for you, turn your worksheets over. First, we are going to practice making a vertical line, start at the top line and go straight down to the bottom line. Go ahead and do the first line now. (Students work) This next line you are practicing making a horizontal line, like the top of the T. Do the second line now (Students work). Great job everyone. This next line you are putting what you practiced together to make a capitol T. Go ahead and do the rest of the page. (Students work). I really like how well you all did making your T. What letter do you think tree starts with? (Students respond)

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Assessment: Thank you for working so hard making your Ts, I have one more worksheet for you to do. Go ahead and write your name on the back (Students write). On the right side of your page there are some pictures, three of those pictures start with the letter T. I want you to color the ones that start with T. (Students work). On the other side of the page is three turtles, draw a line from each turtle to a colored picture. (Students work) Closure: Once you are finished turn in your worksheet to me and you may go pick a center.

Differentiation Strategies: Accommodations/Modifications: These students will be seated next the teacher. They will not do the assessment worksheet instead they will to the Tt worksheet. This gives them more practice in identifying the letter T and practice in writing the letter. It also gives examples of what begins with the letter T. Extensions: For the students that already can write the letter T and recognize its sound, they will do the assessment sheet as their practice and the What begins with T worksheet from Kidzone as their assessment. This allows for them to write the letter T and determine what begins with T. The students will also create a letter T book. Materials and Resources: The Letter T worksheet What begins with T? worksheet What begins with T? worksheet from KidZone Tt worksheet My Itsy Bitsy Letter T book

Reflection: The overall feel of this lesson went really well. The students were very attentive and interacted well with me throughout the lesson. I was very impressed with their attentiveness throughout the lesson especially with it being so early in the morning. I think the two typical students understood the point of the lesson better than the students receiving services. I think for them I should focus more on seeing the letter t in print and in their surroundings. The teacher is really working on the students handwriting, so in that aspect I think the typical students did well with

practicing writing the letter T. I wonder how appropriate that is for the typical students with their fine motor skills.