Authentic+Instruction

=Licensure Area:=

Special Education (K-12)
=Title and Audience:=

The Alphabet Project -Kindergarten
=Objectives:=

Phonemic Awareness
===0001.1.10 Maintain phonemic awareness. • Understand that a phoneme is one distinct sound. • Use sound stretching of one-syllable words to identify each phoneme. • Use sound blending of each separately spoken phoneme to make meaningful words. • Segment one-syllable words into individual sounds and blend the sounds into whole words.===

=Materials:=

Play-Dough, coloring sheets and crayons, computer, YouTube video(s), digital camera, SmartBoard
= = =Description:= ===This lesson is going to be over the course of a few weeks. Students will learn the alphabet and the sounds represented by each letter. As a whole class, we will watch [|ABC Song/ ASL Alphabet Song] and [|ABC Phonics Song/ Sounds of the Letter]. Through these songs, the students will be able to visually recognize letters of the alphabet while also hearing how each letter correctly sounds. The ASL sign for each letter of the alphabet is also represented. This allows for ALL students to be able to learn their alphabet. Learning the signs might take students a little time, but in the end it will help their language and perceptive of language skills. Students will use the play-dough to create the letter(s) that are being focused on each day/week. The worksheets will have both a letter and a picture that starts with that letter that each student will be coloring. The teacher then will take a picture of each students play-dough letter and colored picture (teacher might even allow students to take a picture of their own work). Once all letters have been mentioned and children have learned the ASL signs, the teacher will take pictures of students signing the alphabet (a different student per letter of the alphabet). The teacher then will select the different pictures and use them to create a video (powerpoint, photostory, etc) just like the ones they have come to learn and love. A copy can be sent home to each child on a CD-R or can even be copied onto an ipod, ipad, laptop, etc. That way, if students need practice at home, or need it for further understanding, it will always be at their fingertips.===

=Scaffolds:= ===Teacher will always be present, providing support, information, and feedback to students as they are learning, the alphabet, sounds, and the signs. Students will also be able to learn how to communicate with peers that might be nonverbal or deaf through learning the sign language.===

= = = = =Technology to Support Authentic Instruction:= ===The videos will be the foundations to this lesson. A SmartBoard will [hopefully] be used to show videos (and can even be used to write each letter on by a student). The digital camera will help create the main goal in this project, which is to get students excited about learning the alphabet and their sounds, while also providing them with a piece of work they can be proud of and use for future learning.===