DR - Seuss Lesson Plan1
DR - Seuss Lesson Plan1
DR - Seuss Lesson Plan1
Students will be participating in a creative art project along with a classroom scavenger
Overview hunt. I will also being reading Dr. Seuss’s ABC: An Amazing Alphabet Book to them and
discussing letters, vowels, and consonants. These activities and this book will help
students distinguish between letters of the alphabet and beginning letter sounds.
After reading the book, students will do the creative art project and participate in the
scavenger hunt, they will then be asked a series of questions:
They will write their answers to all of these questions on a piece of paper and turn it in
for a few points. If they wish to share their answers with the class they may.
This lesson plan addressed these state standards 1:
K.1 – Students know about letters, words and sounds. They apply this knowledge to read
Standards simple sentences.
Dr. Seuss’s ABC Lesson Plan
Kindergarten
Terra Cummings
K.1.6 – Recognize and name all capital and lowercase letters of the alphabet.
K.1.18 – Understand the alphabetic principle, which means that as letters in
words change, so do the sounds.
-Dr. Seuss’s ABC: An Amazing Alphabet Book
-construction paper
Material -markers, crayons, paint, glitter
-pencils
-scavenger hunt
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www.doe.in.gov/standards/
Dr. Seuss’s ABC Lesson Plan
Kindergarten
Terra Cummings
1. Read Dr. Seuss’s ABC: An Amazing Alphabet Book out loud. Get the students
involved by letting them yell out each letter as they see it. Ask the class if
anyone can come up with another word that starts with that letter.
2. Alphabet Scavenger Hunt: Give everyone a piece of paper with the letters a
through z on it. Allow them to go anywhere around the room looking for one
object that starts with each letter. Give them an allotted time of 15 to 20 minutes
and then let them share what they’ve found.
Procedures 3. Creative Art Project2: Give each student a piece of construction paper, markers
paint or pencils and assign each one of them a letter. If there are too many
Dr. Seuss’s ABC Lesson Plan
Kindergarten
Terra Cummings
students in your class pair students in groups of two if they wish, or if there
aren’t enough students, participate in the project yourself. Ask each student to
write the capital and lowercase of their assigned letter on their paper. And then
explain that they are each to draw their on dr. Seuss character and name their
character something that starts with their assigned letter. Tell them to be as
creative and crazy as they want. Explain to them that those that wish to can share
their pictures with the class when everyone is finished that that you will be
putting all the pictures together to make your own class ABC book.
Dr. Seuss’s ABC Lesson Plan
Kindergarten
Terra Cummings
After the entire lesson is complete ask your students to get out a piece of paper and
Evaluation answer the questions above. You will take a small grade for the questions answered and
if they wish a few students can share their answers.
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http://www.brighthub.com/education/early-childhood/articles/35704.aspx