Alexis Papazoglou

Letter Smart Trace

Grade(s):
Early Childhood Education – Prekindergarten

Subject(s):
Dual Language Learning (DLL)/English

Length of Lesson:
1 hour

Lesson Overview/Rationale:
● Students will learn to trace letters to form
words such as their names
● Students will work in groups of three on
the iPad and tracing names on the
Smartboard with premade template.
● We will also trace other important words on the Smartboard such as the state and city.

Curriculum Framework/Standard:
“4. Early Learning Expectation: Engagement in Writing. Children demonstrate an increasing
ability to write words or engage in early stages of writing in English.”
● “Write or copying important words (name, friends, and family).”
Early Childhood Standards of Quality for Prekindergarten Pg. 42

Learning Objectives:
● Students will be able to demonstrate forming letters
● Students will be able to identify their letters
● Students will be able to express phonics of letters

​Technology Uses:
● Smartboard with premade name templates for tracing
● iPad with tracing app
● Sing Zoo Phonics song for the alphabet with CD player

Materials:
● Tracing worksheet with their full name and city and state
● Zoo Phonics materials
● iPads
● Smartboard

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Procedure:
1. Class will sing Zoo Phonics song and talk about the animals
2. Students will be put into groups of three with a helper
a. Student 1: will get the materials such as the iPad and worksheets
b. Student 2: will help team members
c. Student 3: will make sure everyone gets a turn
3. Groups will go through a rotation iPad use and Smartboard
4. Students will be utilizing iPad with a tracing app to trace alphabet letter
5. Groups will come up to Smartboard and trace their name on a template as well as the city
and state

Assessment:
​To evaluate students on tracing, I will create a tracing worksheet with their full name, city and
state. I will then review it to see how well the student was able to trace their letters and try to
write their name without it.

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Skills - Excellent Proficient Needs Improvement Score

Accuracy 3 pts 2 pts. 1 pt

Student was Student needs Student was not accurate
accurate with more practice with tracing, needs more
tracing, was able to with tracing practice with template
do without template without template

Participation 3 pts 2 pts 1 pt

Student participated Student needed to Student did not
throughout the be redirected to participate throughout
lesson planned focus on lesson the lesson

Identification 3 pts 2 pts 1 pt

Student was able to Student able to Student was not able to
recognize name, recognize name, recognize name, city or
city and state city and state state
with assistance

9 pts 6 pts 3 pts Total

Assignment
Score:
9 points