Pre service Teachers Name: Danielle Berkelmans Mentor Teachers Name: Lynette Gamble School: Stratford Primary School

Year level: Grade prep AUSVELS Level: Level F Lesson Title: Handwriting focusing on the letter t Lesson Duration: 30 minutes Lesson Time and Date: 12:30pm Monday 6th May Lesson Aims At this end of this lesson, students will have practiced appropriate writing techniques such as posture, grip etc and will have practiced writing the letter t in 7 different ways. Learning Outcomes (use appropriate curriculum framework) VELS Strands Domain/s Dimension/s Physical, Personal and Social Learning Discipline-based Learning English Reading and Viewing Language Writing - Language

Standard/s

Recognise the letters of the alphabet and know there are lower and upper case letters

(ACELA1440)
Know that spoken sounds and words can be written down using letters of the alphabet and how to write some highfrequency sight words and known words (ACELA1758)

Interdisciplinary Learning Childrens Prior Learning (what do the children already know/what have they covered?) Students have practiced the sounds of various other letters and learnt how to write them. This week we will be introducing the letter t. Prior to this lesson the students will have been introduced to the sound of the letter t in a soundwaves lesson. This lesson will focus on writing the letter and handwriting techniques. Teaching Skill Development (What do you want to develop as a teacher?) Teaching basic writing skills at prep level and managing the class while doing hands on activities Teaching and Learning Preparation (resources etc) Whiteboard, sand in tubs x2, chalkboards x2, paper with letter t drawn on, tea and tissue paper and gluesticks, ipads set up to the school writing app.

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Session Structure Lesson Phase Orientation /Introduction How best to motivate and explain the importance of this lesson? This should be for about 5 minutes with links to prior learning or experiences. Teaching strategy/Learning Activities What will support the students to learn the concepts you are trying to teach and to reach the learning outcomes? How will you cater for a diversity of learning needs?

Introduce the letter t through soundwaves session. Explain how to sit correctly while writing and how to hold a pencil. Introduce the point, pinch, flick technique. Get all of the children to practice the technique for holding the pencil and practice writing the letter t in the air first. Get the children to do finger and arm exercises before starting writing.

Break up the children into group of 2. I will work with 1 group at the whiteboard and the other children will work through each activity with two children working at one station at a time. Say the letter and the sound, look at what the letter looks like. 7 ways of writing the letter: 1. In large version on whiteboard take the students arms for a ride and guide them through the motions first and then get them to repeat it 10 times 2. In sand with their finger repeat 10 times 3. Sticking tissue paper onto the letter 4. With chalk on a blackboard 5. Using the Ipad and a stylus repeat 10 times 6. Using a pencil on paper repeat 10 times 7. On paper using glue stick and tea leaves Get the students back on the mat and recap how to hold a pencil and the importance of sitting correctly. Get all the students to write the letter t on the whiteboard.

Conclusion /Closure How will you capture the main ideas of the lesson? Recap/revision etc. Assessment Strategies What are the assessment strategies used throughout this lesson? These should be closely aligned to your lesson aims. How you will you record student learning outcomes?

Students will be assessed by their ability to write a letter t at the end of the lesson.

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Pre-service teacher self evaluation Needs Improvement Teaching / Learning Dimension Introduction to the lesson Planning & organisation of materials, resources Communication with students; explanation, questioning skills etc. Selection of learning tasks Monitoring/assessment of student learning throughout the lesson Conclusion of lesson; transition to next lesson Reflection What was good about this lesson? Why? Rating Progressing Achieving Well Comments

How might this lesson have been improved?

What did you learn about teaching and learning (students and your own) from this lesson?

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Mentor Teachers Evaluation Teaching / Learning Dimension Introduction to the lesson Rating Comments

Planning & organisation of materials, resources Communication with students; explanation, questioning skills etc. Selection of learning tasks

Monitoring/assessment of student learning throughout the lesson Conclusion of lesson; transition to next lesson

Any other comments: (e.g. learning goals for next teaching activity)

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