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A lesson plan for a thematic unit on The Giving Tree book for 6-7-year-olds in 1st grade. The plan aims to enhance students' language arts skills, including reading, vocabulary, writing, social skills, memorization, and story reenactments. The plan includes a creative arts lesson, a concept map, and a script for a play based on the book. The plan also incorporates the Common Core State Standards Initiative of English Language Arts Standards into the curriculum. information on the materials needed, differentiation strategies, and assessment methods.
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Developing a Thematic Unit ECD 315: Curriculum Planning and Design for Early Learners Developing a Thematic Unit Concept Map
Theme of the Unit The Douglas School District incorporates the Common Core State Standards Initiative of English Language Arts Standards into their classrooms. That is why when Ms. Colby became the new teacher of the 1st grade class there, she began to incorporate those standards into her curriculum. Once students reach the 1st grade, they should have somewhat of a greater understanding of how to write a little and how to read. These skills may not be perfect but with the theme of The Giving Tree book as her lesson for the month of September, Ms. Colby can really help enhance each student’s language arts skills. Creative Arts Lesson Plan
Content Area or Developmental Focus: The content area and developmental focus will be working on the student’s language arts skills, to include reading, vocabulary, writing, social skills memorization & story reenactments. Age/Grade of Children: 6–7-year-olds in 1st Grade Length of Lesson: Each lesson will be one hour long, however, the project themselves will take approximately two weeks, to do all the research and set up for the play. Goal To follow the school districts’ curriculum guide in an inspiring and creative way. Also to ensure the students grasp a story and are able to write about it, verbalize it, and reenact it through memory. Objective Students will be able to better read, recite, and even reenact stories that will increase their speaking and vocabulary skills. Standards Included The standards that I will be implementing are English Language Arts standards from the states common core initiative. What this means is that I will develop a lesson plan for language arts that takes a book we read in the class, for example The Giving Tree , & allows the students to implement problem- solving, and critical thinking by doing research and writing about what they remember from the book. From there we all work together as a class to create a play based off the book to present to our other classes and families. Finally, they will write a one paragraph essay stating what they enjoyed and what they learned by doing this project. Materials Some materials we will need are the book, paper and pencils, art material to decorate for the play, and finally access to the library and to a computer to do research for the play.
Closing After the students write their one paragraph essay about what they learned during this project they will then read their paragraph aloud to the class and will answer any questions that the other students or myself may have concerning their essay. Fine and Gross Motor Skills Lesson Plan
Content Area or Developmental Focus: Motor Skills Age/Grade of Children: 6–7-year-olds in 1st Grade Length of Lesson: The play will take approximately one hour Goal To ensure that the students can create decorations, a script, costumes and reenact a play based off of memory. Objective Students will be able to better read, recite, and even reenact the story that will increase their speaking and vocabulary skills. Standards Included The standards that I will be implementing are English Language Arts standards from the states common core initiative. What this means is that I will develop a lesson plan for language arts that takes the The Giving Tree book, & allows the students to implement problem-solving, and critical thinking by doing research and writing about what they remember from the book. From there we all work together as a class to create a play based off the book to present to our other classes and families. Finally, they will write a one paragraph essay stating what they learned by doing this project. Materials We will need arts and crafts items to create decorations and costumes for the play. Along with the book itself to design the costumes and decorations from. Introduction I will introduce this lesson plan by asking if anyone has ever read the book, or if anyone thinks they know what the book is about. From there I will read the book to them. We will then discuss it as a class & finally we will start planning out the play. Lesson Development First I will gather them around the reading carpet & introduce the book and read it to them. Then we will break up into groups two will do research in the library and the other two groups will do research on the computer. After all the research is done we will then break up into groups to prepare the play. We will have a director, a producer, costume designer group, and prop group. Finally, after putting the play on for other classes and our families the students will then write out a one paragraph essay about the project, what they liked, what they disliked, and what they learned. Fine and Gross Motor Skills Lesson
Differentiation I have a student that requires an Individualized Education Plan and another that has ADHD. To assist these students and ensure that they are reaching their educational goals and milestones during this project I will do daily one-on-one discussions with them at the end of the day to ensure that they are understanding this lesson and meeting the curriculum goals. If any of my students are falling behind on this lesson I’ll be sure to develop an additional assisted lesson plan to ensure that they are getting the extra practice they need to meet the curriculum criteria. Especially since this lesson plan directly relates to motor skills I want to makes sure that all of my students are implementing safety first when creating the decorations and costumes. Assessment (Practice/ Checking for Understanding) The assessment that I will be giving my students will be the daily checklist of what needs to be accomplished to stay on schedule to present the play. Also I will ensure that they are working together to create the decorations and costumes. Closing After the students write their one paragraph essay about what they learned during this project they will then read their paragraph aloud to the class and will answer any questions that the other students or myself may have concerning their essay. References Bales, D., Wallinga, C., & Coleman, M. (2006). Health and Safety in the Early Childhood Classroom: Guidelines for Curriculum Development Vol. 82, Iss. 3. Retrieved from: Health and Safety in the Early Childhood Classroom: Guidelines for Curriculum Development - ProQuest (ashford.edu) Common Core State Standards Initiative. (n.d.). English Language Arts Standards. Retrieved from: English Language Arts Standards | Common Core State Standards Initiative (corestandards.org) Jaruszewicz, C. (2013). Curriculum and methods for early childhood educators. (2019 updated ed.)Retrieved from https://content.ashford.eduLinks to an external site.
