Peck-n-Choose

Grade Level:
 First
(Minor modifications can make it adaptive to Kindergarten or Second Grade)

Subjects:
Language Arts
Math
Technology

Learner Outcomes:

The student will listen to a fairy tale.
  The student will identify relationships between phonemes and graphemes while identifying beginning, medial, and ending positions.
The student will recognize patterns in words and sort accordingly.
  The students will print and spell short e words.
Duration of Lesson:
1 hour

Materials:


The Little Red Hen,
blocks, letter tiles, word cards, teacher list of words to build,
card stock, transparency film, The Little Red Hen Spelling List

Technology Tools:
Overhead projector
Computer with Microsoft Word
Printer
Copier or Risograph

Teacher Notes:
Make overhead letter tiles and word cards to use with the class.

Procedures:

Using blocks, show the children an example of a simple pattern.  Let them experiment with making their own patterns.  Afterwards, explain to the children how patterns occur in stories.
Tell the children to listen for patterns in this story as you read.  Encourage them to join in when they discover the pattern.
Explain to the children that patterns also occur in words that we call word families.  Using the letter tiles, students build the words from the teacher list.  The teacher will use the overhead letter tiles to make the words to help correct spellings.  Reread the words made using the overhead word cards.  The students then sort their word cards according to the same beginning sounds and to word family patterns.
  Students select 10 of the words for their spelling words of the week.  They will type and print their own Little Red Hen Spelling list.
Modifications:
Follow special needs procedures.

Enrichment Activities

1.  Write a story using as many of the en and ed words as possible.
2.  Students will make a Picture Dictionary.   Fold a sheet of paper into fourths.  Students pick four of the words to write in each of the four sections.  Then Illustrate each word.

Evaluation:
Complete the rubric for each child.


 Listens to story
Identifies sound positions in words and matches graphemes.
Sorts words according to identified patterns.
Types and Prints short e words.
Spells 10 short e words.
S = exhibits listening behaviors. 

U = does not exhibit listening behaviors.

 S = Builds 14 of the 17 words correctly. 

U = Builds 0 to 13 of the words correctly.

 S = Sorts words accurately. 

U = Sorts words inaccurately.
S = Types 8 of the 10 words accurately using correct finger placement.

U = Types 0 to 7 words accurately using correct finger placement.
 

 Each word is worth 10 points 

 

National Standards:

Mathematics: 
  • Understands that patterns can be made by putting different shapes together or taking them apart.
Language Arts: 
  • Recites and responds to familiar stories, poems, and rhymes with patterns. 
  • Uses basic elements of structural analysis.
Technology:
  • Types on a computer keyboard, using correct hand and body positions.
  • Knows basic distinctions among computer software programs, such as word processors, special purpose programs, and games.

West Virginia Instructional Goals and Objectives:


Mathematics:
  • Patterns and Relationships 1.19, 1.20, 1.21
Language Arts: 
  • Listening 1.15, 1.17, 1.19
Spelling 
  • 1.78, 1.85
Technology
  • 1.112, 1.114, 1.116

References:
Easy Lessons for Teaching Word Families

Authors:
Lola Brown
Michelle Kelley
Tammy Stalensky

Harden Elementary
2000 School of Excellence
1999, 2000 West Virginia Title I Distinguished School


Overview
Lesson 1
Lesson 2
Lesson 3
Lesson 4
Lesson 5

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