Print Awareness Lesson Plan
Print Awareness Lesson Plan
Print Awareness Lesson Plan
Objective: The student will read, identify, and write sight words in sentences
format. The students will have to identify and create sentences from troubling
sight words such as my, to, are, will, like, did, they, find, said, here, away, yes,
do, down. Student will have to demonstrate awareness of sight words and
word boundaries while constructing a sentence.
Materials/Resources:
Lesson Time Allotment: 30 minutes
T: Teacher
L: Learner
Focus: (5 minutes)
T: Lay out flash cards of the sight words being used during the activity. Read each sight word to
the student and show the student a related picture to each specific sight word
S: Flashcards will mix from order that teacher presents them, and then the student will strive to
identify each sight word individually. While the sight word is being presented by the teacher, the
student will also have to recreate it by utilizing play-dough.
Instructional Plan
T: Teacher will correlate pictures and sight words in manner that allows the student to make a
connection with personal life, which will be an instrument to help memorize each specific sight
word.
Check for Understanding:
T: Support will be given to the student if unable to identify a sight word, but student will be
encourage to sound out beginning letters and make inferences from pictures and already known
words.
The student will also be explained that there are specific steps to follow while writing a sentence
such as: Use capital letter at the beginning of the sentence; Use finger spaces between each word;
Use punctuation (period) at the end of each sentence; Not to forget to use the special word (sight
word). The student will be given a checklist in order to check off that each step of creating a
sentence is completed.
T/S: Student will select another sight word and with help of the teacher a sentence will be
created.
Check for understanding: The student will have to check off when each step for writing a
sentence is completed in order to help the student verify that the sentence has been written
correctly.
S: The student will have to make the sight word by using magnet letters.
Instructional Plan
T/S If the student seems to be struggling with a specific word, the student will be asked to
identify the beginning sounds in the word. If the student is unsuccessful identifying key sounds
in the word, then the teacher will spell out the letters of such word in order to avoid mistakes
such as confusion of letters.
S: Student will be required to make connections with specific struggling sight words, for
instance the student will have to stop and tell a real personal life episode when such sight word
was seen or used.
Closure: 5 minutes
T: Teacher will introduce the following video of a sight word song, and sing along in order to
build confidence in the student and encouragement to sing along.
S: The student will have to watch the video and attempt to recognize the words in the video and
say it aloud before it is sang in the video. The student will also have to identify previously used
sight words, if presented in the video.