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Uppercase/Lowercase Letter Sort

Lesson Plan

Uppercase/Lowercase Letter Sort

Grade Levels

Kindergarten, Pre-Kindergarten

Course, Subject

English Language Arts
Related Academic Standards
CC.1.1.PREK.D CC.1.1.PREK.D
Develop beginning phonics and word skills. • Associates some letters with their names and sounds. • Identify familiar words and environmental print.
CC.1.1.K.B CC.1.1.K.B
Demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of print. • Follow words left to right, top to bottom, and page by page. • Recognize that spoken words are represented in written language by specific sequences of letters. • Understand that words are separated by spaces in print. • Recognize and name all upper and lower case letters of the alphabet.
CC.1.3.PREK.K CC.1.3.PREK.K
With prompting and support, actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.
CC.1.5.PREK.A CC.1.5.PREK.A
Participate in collaborative conversations with peers and adults in small and larger groups.
CC.1.5.PREK.C CC.1.5.PREK.C
Respond to what a speaker says in order to follow directions, seek help, or gather information.
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  • Big Ideas
    Active listeners make meaning from what they hear by questioning, reflecting, responding and evaluating.
    Effective readers use appropriate strategies to construct meaning
    Effective readers use appropriate strategies to construct meaning.
  • Concepts
    Collaborative Discussion
    Evaluating Information
    Phonics and Word Recognition
    Print Concepts
    Range of Reading
  • Competencies
    Ask and answer questions in order to seek help, get information, or clarify something that is not understood.
    Associate some letters with their names and sounds. Identify familiar words and environmental print.
    Participate in collaborative conversations with peers and adults in small and larger groups.
    Recognizing the beginning of text. Follow words left to right, top to bottom, and left page to right page. Recognize that spoken words are represented in written language. Recognize a one to one match between voice and print. Understand that words are separated by spaces in print. Understand that a word is made up of a specific sequence of letters. Identify all upper and lower case letters. Identify punctuation marks .
    Respond to what a speaker says in order to follow directions, seek help, or gather information.
    With prompting and support, actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.

Rationale

This lesson will help students to discriminate between upper and lowercase letters.

Vocabulary

T-chart

Uppercase letter

Lowercase letter

Objectives

TLW identify an uppercase letter.

TLW identify a lowercase letter.

TLW sort upper and lowercase letters.

 

 

Lesson Essential Question(s)

How do active listeners know what to believe in what they hear?
How do active listeners make meaning?
How do readers know what to believe?
How do strategic readers create meaning from informational and literary text?
How does a readers’ purpose influence how text should be read?
How does what readers’ read influence how they should read it?
What do good listeners do?
What is this text really about?

Duration

One class period

Materials

Morning Message/Message to the class  on chart paper

Highlighter

T-chart on chart paper/magnetic white board

Magnetic upper and lowercase letters

Uppercase_ Lowercase letter sort.pdf

glue sticks

scissors

Suggested Instructional Strategies

W:  Students will identify upper and lowercase letters.
H:  

Hands on activities and visual supports.
E:  Children will be provided with manipulatives and models.
R:  Students will interact with sorts and reflect on prior knowledge.
E:  Student will complete an independent sort.
T:  Letters could be enlarged, provide models, different materials for
writing and sorts.
O:  Using explicit instruction and modeling with large and small group
instruction.

Instructional Procedures

Teacher:  This morning friends we are going to be letter detectives.  We are going to highlight the capital letters.  

The teacher will read the morning message and ask the students to locate the capital letters.  One at a time students will highlight capital letters that they find in the morning message.

Teacher:   The letters we highlighted were uppercase letters and the others are lowercase letters. 
Think about the letters in your name there are uppercase and lowercase letters in your name.  Today we are going to sort uppercase and lowercase letters.

Activity: A Group Uppercase/Lowercase Sort

  • Pass out magnetic letters (a mixture of lowercase and uppercase) to each child.
  • Make a T-chart.  Explain and model where to place uppercase and lowercase letters.
  • Have students place their letters on the t-chart. 
  • After all the letters are placed on the chart have a discussion about placement.

Teacher:  Now you are going to do a sort on your own. Cut out your sheet of letters and then glue them on your t-chart.

T-Chart could be collected and used for evidence of documentation of skill.

Formative Assessment

Teacher observes student behavior  during group work.

Students will provide an understanding through the sorting activity.

Related Materials & Resources

http://pinterest.com/luvmy4blessings/kinder-name-games/

 

Author

Betsy Tautin, Shanon Benson, Sherry Hartman

Date Published

March 21, 2013
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