FUN with the ALPHABET!

Quinidra Henderson

Learning Objectives

Student will master writing and reciting the alphabet from A-Z

Will have the ability to associate which words go with certain letters

ACTIVTIES Each day we will have a letter of the day and base

everything around the certain letter

Students will complete an alphabet book using an illustration for each letter

In pairs, one student will tell their neighbor a letter and something that starts with it

As a class, students will participate in a letter race

ESSENTIAL/UNIT QUESTIONS What are the 26 letters of the alphabet?

Why do we need to know the alphabet?

What words start with each letter?

TEKS §110.11. English Language Arts and Reading, Kindergarten (b) Knowledge and skills. (1) Reading/Beginning Reading Skills/Print Awareness. Students

understand how English is written and printed. Students are expected to:

(A) recognize that spoken words can be represented by print for communication;

(B) identify upper- and lower-case letters; (C) demonstrate the one-to-one correspondence between a spoken

word and a printed word in text

TEKS cont. §110.11. English Language Arts and Reading, Kindergarten (b) Knowledge and skills (3) Reading/Beginning Reading Skills/Phonics. Students use the relationships

between letters and sounds, spelling patterns, and morphological analysis to decode written English. Students are expected to:

(A) identify the common sounds that letters represent; (B) use knowledge of letter-sound relationships to decode regular words in text

and independent of content (e.g., VC, CVC, CCVC, and CVCC words); (C) recognize that new words are created when letters are changed, added, or

deleted; (D) identify and read at least 25 high-frequency words from a commonly used list

REFERENCES

http://www.tea.state.tx.us/teks/grade/Kindergarten.pdf