Ela Print Concepts Lesson Plan
Ela Print Concepts Lesson Plan
Understandings: Students will understand the directionality of a book. The will know when to use capital letters, at the beginning of sentences, they will be introduced to punctuation and have an understanding of the structure of a sentence.
Essential Question(s): When you begin reading a book, where do you start? Where does the period (question mark, etc.) go? When do you use a capital letter? How does a sentence begin? What goes at the end of a sentence?
Students will know. How to: Read left to right; Top to bottom;
Students will be able to Recognize sentence structure in print. Construct their own sentences using proper capitalization, and spacing. They will also use punctuation, such as a period, question mark, exclamation point, and commas appropriately. Decode words to form sentence structure. Gain confidence from learning more about the English language visually and orally.
There are spaces between words; Have a basic understanding of ending and beginning punctuation.
capitalization. b. The on grade level students will have 10 boxes with one syllable, high frequency words in them. They will cut the words out of the box and form two sentences using five words each including a capital letter and a punctuation mark at the end. They will then rewrite the sentence using proper spacing, punctuation, and capitalization in their notebook. c. The above grade level students will have a worksheet with five sentences, including high frequency words that will be out of order. They will rewrite the sentences in the proper order, while being aware of spacing, capitalization and punctuation.
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Itemized Attachments: Below level students center example:
called brown
Name: __________________________________ Rewrite the mixed up sentences. 1) elephants called calves. are Baby 2) birth. are brown at Elephants 3) hair babies. Elephants have when they are 4) are grey. elephants Adult 5) become when Elephants they turn 20. adults
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