Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Rationale: First Graders need to be able to recognize letters (written and oral) and

differentiate between upper and lowercase letters. Standards:

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.1.4 Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension. o CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.1.4a Read grade-level text with purpose and understanding. o CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.1.4b Read grade-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression. o CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.1.4c Use context to confirm or self-correct word recognition and understanding, rereading as necessary. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.1.1 Ask and answer questions about key details in a text. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.1.1 Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.1.1a Print all upper- and lowercase letters. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.K.1 Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose opinion pieces in which they tell a reader the topic or the name of the book they are writing about and state an opinion or preference about the topic or book (e.g., My favorite book is...).

Reading Workshop/Writing Workshop Objective: Students will be able to read a just right book to the teacher by using the pictures, context clues, and recognizing patterns, with 60%-80% accuracy (depending on student). Students will be able to demonstrate their understanding of the alphabet by printing upper and lowercase letters and by printing letters that come before and after letters in the alphabet. The student will listen as the teacher reads aloud, stopping to make connections to their own life and to ask or answer questions. Students will be able to use a combination of drawing and writing to share with other students about themselves.

Materials: Yellow file folder with students individual conference sheets and blank reading logs. Purple folders with ABC activities. Computer with song. Matthew ABC by Peter Catalanotto White Boards Clipboards Crayons Pencils *Before the actual lesson students will follow their normal routine of unpacking, book shopping for a new book to read to either me or Mrs. Fuller, and then reading silently or listening to a book on tape until all students have read to a teacher.

Introduction: Yesterday we put the letters in ABC order on the pocket chart but overnight some of the letters fell out. Can you help me put in the missing letters?

Lesson Development: For the last few days we have been reading ChickaChicka Boom Boom. Today we are going to read a new book that deals with the alphabet called Matthew ABC. Read Book. Ask a few questions during book. *What type of letter is at the beginning of the name Matthew? *What do you think the new students name is? What letter is missing? *Can you give me a word that begins with the letter of your name? Great job listening. We have been sitting for a long time so I think we need a break to move around. Remember yesterday we learned a new song that went along with the book Chicka Chicka Boom Boom. Thumbs up if you remember. Well today we are going to sing the song again. Now that we used some of our energy, I am going to introduce you to some new Letter Centers. Introduce all 5 centers to the children. Letter Centers are in purple folders. For the first day I assigned a center for each of you. *Get a clipboard* o Olivia-lowercase letters o Caroline-colors o Aadi-3 letters o Aadil-Before o Akshay-After Students work on letter centers. Depending on time they may switch centers.

Conclusion/Assessment: Formative Assessment o Students will get white boards. o I am going to point to an uppercase letter and I want you to write the lowercase letter on your board. Show students an example. o Have students do 3-5 depending on time. o B, D, Q, H, Y ****Writing: (Only if time permits, bump to next day if needed) In the beginning of class today, I read you the book Matthew ABC. In the book there were 25 Matthews. For each Matthew there was a sentence about him to describe him to the class. Today we are going to start working on an About Me book. We are going to work on the first page. Show students sample. Hi, my name is Miss Steele. I am a girl. I am 21 years old. Picture drawn of self.