SETON HILL UNIVERSITY

Lesson Plan Template

TOPIC
Name
Subject
Grade Level
Date/Duration
Big Ideas
Essential
Questions

PA/Common
Core/Standards

Objective

DETAILS
Maranda Paola
English Language Arts
1st grade
10/26/15, 30 minutes
Letters are put together to make sounds that help us
understand the words that we read.
How do you become an active and engaged reader?
How do letter sounds help us figure out words we don't
know?
How can breaking words down help you understand
what they
mean?
CC.1.2.1.J

Use words and phrases acquired through conversations,

reading, and being read to, and responding to texts,
including words that signal connections and
relationships between the words and phrases.

While the teacher reads a list of 8 sight words, the 1st

grade students will drive a toy car into the correct
parking spot, and be able to correctly identify the
written form of the word with with 100% accuracy.

Formative- Observation during writing of sight words

Summative-Parking lot sight word test

Bloom's
Taxonomy
Webb's Depth of
Knowledge
(DOK)
Formative &
Summative
Assessment
Evidence
ISTE Standards
for Students
Framework for
21st Century
Learning

1. Work Creatively with Others

a. Develop, implement and communicate new ideas
to others effectively
b. Be open and responsive to new and diverse
perspectives; incorporate group input and
feedback into the work
c. Demonstrate originality and inventiveness in
work and understand the real world limits to
adopting new ideas
d. View failure as an opportunity to learn;
understand that creativity and innovation is a

CK

long-term, cyclical process of small successes and

frequent mistakes
2. Apply Technology Effectively
a. Use technology as a tool to research, organize,
evaluate and communicate information
b. Use digital technologies (computers, PDAs, media
players, GPS, etc.), communication/networking
tools and social networks appropriately to access,
manage, integrate, evaluate and create
information to successfully function in a
knowledge economy
c. Apply a fundamental understanding of the
ethical/legal issues surrounding the access and
use of information technologies
Accommodation
s, Modifications
SUPERVISING
TEACHERS
SIGNATURE

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Color coded words

Seton Hill University Lesson Plan Template Step-by-Step Procedures

RATIONALE for
the Learning
Plan
Introduction
Activating Prior Knowledge
What sounds go together to make words?
Hook/Lead-In/Anticipatory Set
What are some common words that you see often while
reading?
Explicit
Big Idea Statement
Instructions
Letters are put together to make sounds that help us
understand the words that we read.
Essential Questions Statement
How can learning high frequency words make me a
better reader?
Objective Statement
While writing sight in a variety of different ways, the
students will learn to recognize them, and spell them in
conversations and texts.
Transition
The students will transfer from the carpet to their seats
by saying one of their sight words and spelling it
Key Vocabulary

CK

Lesson
Procedure

Been
Said
At
From
Down
People
One
See
PreAssessment of Students
Observation of writing sight words in a variety of ways
Modeling of the Concept
Writing the sight words for them a few times to get
practice seeing them
Guiding the Practice
Sound out the words and giving examples of how to
write them
Providing the Independent Practice
The students will use a parking spot sight words
Transition
Cheery pie with sight words

Reading
Materials
Ipads for sight word applications
Technology
Equipment
Supplies
Evaluation of
Formal Evaluation
the
Sight word parking lot test
Learning/Master Informal Evaluation
y of the
Observations of sight word writings
Concept
Closure
Summary & Review of the Learning
Sight words are important for
Homework/Assignments

Teacher

Self-reflection