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Technology Integration Unit

This document outlines a lesson plan for kindergarten students to learn about the letter "A" through a variety of activities incorporating technology, including using websites like Starfall, PBS Kids, and YouTube videos, as well as centers focusing on sorting apples, stamping the letter, and making alphabet hats. The goal is for students to understand that letters represent sounds and recognize the beginning sound and shape of the letter "A".

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Technology Integration Unit

This document outlines a lesson plan for kindergarten students to learn about the letter "A" through a variety of activities incorporating technology, including using websites like Starfall, PBS Kids, and YouTube videos, as well as centers focusing on sorting apples, stamping the letter, and making alphabet hats. The goal is for students to understand that letters represent sounds and recognize the beginning sound and shape of the letter "A".

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Technology Integration Unit

Kelly Luza
ETEC 562
Intended Audience
Intended Audience: Kindergarten

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;
(D) recognize the difference between a letter and a printed word;
Lesson Objectives

Students understand that letters


represent sounds
Recognize the beginning sounds of
words
Differentiate between upper and
lowercase letters
Recognize a as part of a word
Recognize a is the first letter of the
alphabet and a vowel.
Resources Needed

iPad or computer with access to the


internet
Centers Materials (explained later in
the lesson)
Technologies Incorporated
Starfall
Is an educational website designed to provide an
interactive learning experience for students. Through its
use of sounds and animation it engages the students to
continue on with the lessons. Its affordances are its
made by professional educators, ad free, and user
friendly.
Technologies Incorporated

PBSKids.org
http://pbskids.org/sesame/videos/a-astron
aut-adventure/#

PBS Kids is an educational website devoted


to the television programs on PBS. For the
purpose of this lesson I will be focusing on
a Sesame Street video.
Technologies Incorporated

YouTube
Is a free video sharing website on the
internet. Users can type in key words or
phrases to find videos. Anyone with a
camera can upload to YouTube. Users have
the ability to place parental controls on
this website.
Cognitivism Learning
Theory
As a teacher it is my responsibility to assess the
amount of knowledge regarding the alphabet letters
that my students currently know. From there I can build
upon their prior knowledge and add in new imperative
information.
It is my job to help them organize their knowledge and
to realize that each letter will be the building blocks of
the creation of words used in everyday tasks.
Feedback will help them improve upon their skills and
to reinforce what skills they have already
accomplished.
Students will be actively involved in the learning
process.
Beginning of the Lesson:
Activating their schema
Beginning the lesson I will show a flashcard that has the letter A on it. I
will then ask a few extension questions to help activate their schema.

Questions:
1. What letter am I holding?
2. What is the picture on it? Do you know of anything else that starts
with A?
3. Does the alphabet start with A?
4. Do any of your names or friends names start with A?
5. What sound does the letter A make?

I then have a short Sesame Street video on the letter A.


1. http://pbskids.org/sesame/videos/a-astronaut-adventure/#

Allotted time: 10-15 min.


Story time
After I have activated their schema then
I will read the book Ten apples up on
top By: Dr. Seuss.
As I am going through the book I will ask
the students questions pertaining to the
book and point out all of the a words.
Allotted time: 10 min
Singing

I always love to sing during my circle


time. On my iPad we will watch the
Hooray for A by: StoryBots YouTube
video. We will sing this a few times.

Allotted time: 10 minutes


Centers

After we have finished singing I will


break the class up into three centers
groups. The centers are as follows:
1. Letter A apple sort
2. Stamping letter A with a bingo marker
3. Making an A hat.

Allotted time: 30-45 min.


Letter A Apple Sort

In this activity the student will sort the corresponding apples


into their baskets. This is a great activity to show the students
the difference between upper and lower case A.
Letter A Stamping

Students will take a bingo marker and mark all of the As on


the page. I will give the students feedback during and after
this center.
Alphabet Hat

This is such a cute and fun assignment. Students will use


crayons or markers to color the a words on their headband. I
will then help them glue the two strips together to make a
headband. If it isnt big enough, just staple a sentence strip to
the end of it.
Assessment/ Review

If students finish early in a center then


they can use an iPad or computer to
play on Starfall.com.
Simply click on the ABC link then select the
letter A.
http://www.starfall.com/n/level-k/letter-a/l
oad.htm?filter=abc

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