Danielle Farkas

LANGUAGE ARTS
Grade: 1

Unit: Word Families

Date: December 12, 2016

Activity: ET Book and Craft

Duration: 80 minutes

OUTCOMES FROM ALBERTA PROGRAM OF STUDIES

General Learning Outcome 2: Students will listen, speak, read, write, view and represent to
comprehend and respond personally and critically to oral, print and other media texts.
Specific Learning Outcome 1: Use Strategies and Cues
Use comprehension strategies

identify by sight some familiar words from favourite print texts

identify high frequency words by sight

Use phonics and structural analysis

segment and blend sounds in words spoken or heard

use phonic knowledge and skills to read unfamiliar words in context
use analogy to generate and read phonically regular word families
associate sounds with letters and some letter clusters

General Learning Outcome 2: Students will listen, speak, read, write, view and represent to
comprehend and respond personally and critically to oral, print and other media texts.
Specific Learning Outcome 2: Respond to Texts
Experience various texts

participate in shared listening, reading and viewing experiences, using oral, print and other
media texts from a variety of cultural traditions and genres, such as poems, storytelling by
elders, pattern books, audiotapes, stories and cartoons

General Learning Outcome 2: Students will listen, speak, read, write, view and represent to
comprehend and respond personally and critically to oral, print and other media texts.
Specific Learning Outcome 3: Understand Forms, Elements and Techniques
Experiment with language

demonstrate interest in repetition, rhyme and rhythm in shared language experiences, such as
action songs and word play
Learning Objectives

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Students will:
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Participate in listening to the Youtube Word Family Lesson

Brainstorm words that belong in the et word family
Create a craft incorporating the words ending in et
Recognize and identify et words on worksheet

ASSESSMENTS
Observations:

Key Questions:

Students ability to brainstorm words

Students ability to complete craft

demonstrating knowledge

Students ability to complete worksheet

demonstrating their word recognition
and knowledge

What words belong in the et word family?

Written/Performance Assessments:
Creating a craft using et words, recognizing words in et family and recording them. Completing a
word worksheet, testing their recognition and knowledge.
MATERIALS AND EQUIPMENT

Writing Instrument, Pencil

Pencil Crayons or Crayons

Scissors

Glue

Worksheets for word practice

PRE-LEARNING CONSIDERATIONS

Students previous knowledge of similar worksheets for other word families

Students participation in rhyme song to learn word families

Time of day: Second and fourth block, before lunch recess

TEACHER RESOURCES

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDLCphUBaTw

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Sample

SMARTboard program

2 Word Practice Worksheets

Extra Colouring Sheet

PROCEDURE
Introduction

Teacher

(10 min):

Review in and ig, answering students with hands up, then introduce et

Video and Review

Show Youtube video, prompting students throughout

GLO 2/SLO 2

Ask students to get out binder to insert new worksheet and then return binder
into their desks
Ask students to make their way back to their desks
Expectations for Learning and Behaviour: Students are expected to have
their listening ears on and put their hand up if they would like to add to
conversation. No talking over each other and no talking over teacher.
Students respond when called on.

Learning Activity #1

Teacher

(10 min.):

Brainstorm on SMART board words that end in et

Brainstorm

Brainstorm a minimum of six words, use popsicle sticks to choose students to

come up to the board to participate

GLO 2/SLO 1
GLO 2/SLO 3

Rhyme/song:
Put the j with the et, what do you get?
j et jet! clap hands
Run through the rest of the list of words to help students put the words into
their long-term memory
Introduce the craft, showing them what we are making (showing steps) and
letting students know what materials they will need
Assessment: Students previous knowledge of words outside of what was
read in book
Key Question: What are words in the et word family?

Teacher/Student

Teacher

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Transition

Pass out materials for crafts, asking a couple students to help

(2 min.):
Learning Activity #2

Teacher

(10 min.):

Walk students step by step and demonstrate each step

Craft

When students are finished their craft, they put up their hand for me to check

GLO 2/SLO 1

Craft goes in mailbox to go home and student gets out their worksheet in their
LA duotang
Assessment: Students ability to come up with et words
Accommodations: Walk around class assisting students with their crafts and
answers questions
Key Question: What are words that end in et?

Transition

Teacher

(1 min.):

Explain to students how to fill in worksheet (they will have done same
worksheets before, different words) as each student completes craft.

Learning Activity #3

Teacher

(10 min.):

Students work independently on their worksheets at their desks

Worksheet

Assessment: Students completion of craft and worksheets

GLO 2/SLO 1

Accommodations: Walk around class assisting students with their crafts and
answers questions
Key Question: Can you recognize and identify words that end in et

Closure

Teacher

(1 min.):

Please put your work away and get ready for recess
Consolidation/Assessment of Learning:
Students completion of worksheet and craft

Extra Time Activity: Students choose a book to read quietly at their desk

Reflection: Next page