Friday, October 26, 2018
What do I want my students to know and do at the end of a unitWhat
When looking at my unit lesson plans so far to some it may seem quiet easy to teach kindergarten students how to write and the functions of writing. But to me I’m finding that it may be difficult. Not difficult as in oh my goodness I’m going to have a terrible time and be a terrible teacher but more from the stand point that for kindergarten age I need to make my lesson plans fun and engaging or the students will get bored out of their mind and we all know what happens when a student is bored at that age. They start to talk, and wander around the room and just blatantly not pay attention. So for my unit I am going over English Language Arts at the kindergarten level learning the structures of sentence writing. For this I want the students to know the importance of using capital letters and different punctuation marks for different phrases such as a period for a regular sentence and exclamation mark of the sentence they are writing they want the reader to know they are excited about and the question mark if the sentence is asking a question. What I want the students to do is to write out sentences that come to their mind or that follow a picture to help pick their brains on what to write. I will assess their growth by using the stories I ask them to write, this will also be a peer review type of thing because I want my students to learn as much as they can from each other because I feel that is the best way to learn!
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we do a form of this in my preschool class. It is a prewriting skill. I will read a book to my students and I will get to a really interesting part and I will close the book. I will then ask them what do they think will happen next the students take turns telling me (making predictions) and then we finishing reading. The kids get to see if their predictions were correct. As the year progresses I take this a step further. I stop my story and I hand them a piece of white paper. I ask them to draw me their predictions. When everyone finishes the students present their predictions. I write them on the paper for them and then we finish reading. My more advanced students begin to sound out and write simple words which we have worked on in small groups.
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I really liked the detailed of your blog post this week. I had some difficulty describing what I wanted my students to know or learn. I really had to remember that this is where I should start rather than piece together.
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