December 9th, 2009
Can anyone help me out please? For one of my classes I need to create a thematic teaching unit with lessons for promoting components of literacy development. My grade level is preschool, and I need to make four lesson plans; one for each development… speaking, listening, reading and writing.
A few units I thought about doing was the seasons or a beach theme but I get stuck, for example with the seasons…. On the reading lesson plan, I don’t know what to do? How can I make a whole lesson plan that can last for about 30min, on the seasons for reading? I cant think of anything else besides reading a book, but I need more then that, I need a WHOLE lesson plan so I’m stuck….. if anyone has any suggestions to help me out or have any better/less stressful unit ideas that can promote ALL—-> reading, wirting,listining and speaking….besides the seasons or the beach let me know…. I’m having a real hard time with this
I wish i can do what you said, Leslie… but I need 4 seprate lesson plans, 1 for speaking, 1 for reading, 1 for listining and 1 for writing I cant combine it,
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It sounds like you’re trying to come up with one long activity (30 minutes) and that’s way too long for preschool kids. If you want to do 30 minutes on the seasons, line the children up and take them for a walk. Discuss what you see and what season it is. Then, back to school and make a list on the white board or a poster board about what you saw: leaves, colors, ice, whatever. Let the children tell you what to write. Then read your book. Have a series of four little pictures on strips of paper (one per child). You can do this on the computer using clip art to represent each season. Model for the kids how you will cut the pictures out (make the pictures each in a little box so they are cutting straight lines…easier for the younger ones), then paste them in sequence on pieces of paper to make a little book. The children will explain to you how to sequence the pictures as you help them put the book together, then you can ask them to help you write the words spring, summer, fall, winter on the appropriate pages ( say “ssss-spring…what letter do you think it starts with?). Ask them to try to write the first letter and help them write the rest. The older kids should be able to write the words themselves. Then ask the kids to “read” their book to you so you know they understand and tell them to “read” it to mom or dad at home. There ya go: reading, writing, speaking, and listening!
Season theme. Model for the kids- take overcoat for Snowfall, Sweater for Winter, Sunglasses for summer. Talk to them while you change the “seasons”. Ask them what their parents do when it snows, when they feel cold, when it is hot? Then together make charts- one for each season- just give them picture cut outs and form a collage. Tell them to write (in capital) season’s name. Then each chart is to be “read out”. There you have covered it all – speaking, listening, reading & writing, in a fun filled way and exhausted your time limit of half hour as well. Try to make your poems for different seasons to conclude the lesson and make it memorable.
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