Practice With the Alphabet

Wyatt Miller
Kindergarten
Language Arts
50 Min.

Analyze Learners
- 20 students
- 13 boys and 7 girls
- Between the ages of 5 and 6
- No SPED students
- 5 Title 1 reading assistance students
- 60% receive free/reduced lunch
- 17 Caucasian students that speak English at home and 3 Hispanic students that speak Spanish at
home
- The students can sit still and learn for about 10-15 minutes, but most prefer kinesthetic learning
right after to get up and moving.
- 20% visual 60% kinesthetic
State Objectives
Given different letters of the alphabet, the students will identify each letter with 90% accuracy.

Select Methods, Media, , and Materials

1) Each method will begin with students using the ipads available in class to practice tracing over the
letters for about 10-15 minutes.
- Method 1: After students have practiced on the ipads come back together as a class and have each
student come up one at a time and write a letter from the alphabet on the SMART board in order.
Each student will be required to volunteer at least once.
- Method 2: Prior to the lesson set up 26 sheets of paper with a different letter on each one up
around the classroom. Once the students finish practicing their letters divide the class into 4 groups of
5. The instructor will call out a different letter for each group and the groups must work as a team to
identify their letter and go stand by it.
-Method 3: Following the students letter practice divide the class into 5 groups of 4. The instructor
will call out a different letter for each group and they must work as a team to create the shape of that
letter using their bodies (i.e. like the YMCA)
Utilize Media, Materials, and Methods
1. Prior to the class, the instructor will need to preview the alphabet programs on the ipads to ensure
they all serve the intended purpose.
2. Before beginning the lesson, the instructor will need to make sure they have printed off the 26
letter sheets, as well as have a program ready on the SMART board for the students to write their
letters on.
3. The students will be seated in their desks for the first 10-15 minutes but there should be a decent
amount of open space for the activities afterward, so that students have enough room to work.
4. The warm up for the students will be the first 10-15 minutes of review/practice tracing over
letters on the ipad to become more familiar with the shapes, this will hopefully make the
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identification process easier for them.

5. Provide the learning experiences: Outline the Require Learner Participation section.
Require Learner Participation
ipad program practice: 10 minutes
Lesson method 1: Writing letters on the SMART board (10 minutes)
Lesson method 2: Group work, letter identification (14 minutes)
Lesson method 3: Body letters (14 Minutes)
Homework discussion: Students will further practice writing letters in a take home packet (2 minutes)
Evaluate & Revise
Evaluation methods for each of the following are included:
1. Student Performance
The students grading for this lesson is based off of their understanding of the
alphabet throughout the lesson. The warm up task on the ipads would be used to get
an idea of where the students are at in understanding the alphabet, and then the
three different methods to teach the lesson will get the children to work together and
learn new ways to identify letters. The homework assignment will be a summary of
how much they learned, there will be 26 capital letters and 26 lowercase letters each
worth half a point, if there are students that are still struggling this will give me a
better idea of who needs help in what areas.
2. Media Effectiveness
The ipads remained functional throughout the whole warm-up exercise.
The SMART board program worked and students were all able to write at least one letter on
the board for the class.
3. Instructor Performance
If at least 75-80% of students showed a better understanding of the alphabet than before, I
would consider it a successful lesson. I think the best way to gauge how it went is to ask the
students for their feedback, but also just watching their work to see if writing and identifying
letters becomes easier for them over the next few lessons.

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