ACU NSW Lesson Plan Template

Class/Grade/Stage: Date: 5/06/23 Time: Start: ____10am_____________________

Kindy Finish: _____10:50am____________________

Key Learning Area(s): Lesson Topic: Learning the letter K

NESA Australian Standard 2; Know the content and how to teach it

Professional • 2.2.1: Organize content into an effective learning and teaching sequence
Standards for Standard 3: Plan for and implement effective teaching and learning
Teachers • 3.2.1: Plan lesson sequences using knowledge of student learning, content and effective teaching strategies
Identify the standard(s)
and focus areas that
align with this lesson:
Recent Prior Experience (formative assessment, summative assessment, specific relevant concepts, skills and values the school students have
experienced prior to this lesson):

Syllabus/Syllabi Indicators of Learning for this lesson- learning intentions Assessment:

Outcome(s): and success criteria: Strategies which will be used to assess learners’ attainment of
Please note the In meaningful Ss language, so Ss can monitor their learning. learning outcomes. Should be linked to each learning indicator.
syllabus reference Linked directly with the syllabus/syllabi outcome(s).
number AND write Learning intention(s): What will Ss know, understand and be • Questioning
out in full. able to do as a result of the learning and teaching: • Observation
Identifies, blends, • Students will learn how to pronounce the letter and • Use of formative assessment: monitoring students
segments and sound K learning and understanding of content
manipulates • Students will learn other words starting with K
phonological units • Students will learn how to write the letter K
in spoken words • Students will learn about the character starting with
as a strategy for K
reading and
creating texts
(ENE PHOAW 01)
Success criteria: How students will know they have achieved
Uses single letter these intentions?
grapheme • Students can successfully pronounce the letter and
phoneme sound K
correspondences • Students can successfully understand other words
and common starting with K
diagraphs to • Students can successfully write the letter
decode and • Students can successfully understand the character
encode words starting with K
when reading and
creating texts
(ENE PHOKW 01)

Any safety issues to Resources:

be considered (APST List resources you used in preparing the lesson AND those used in the lesson implementation.
4.4.1): • InitialLit lesson book
• Kelly Kitten character poster

LESSON SEQUENCEc
Introduction:
 15 T: Settles students down on the carpet Initial
min lit
T: shows letter-sound correspondence on the smartboard e.g. A, C, E
book
T: asks what sound to the students

S: state the sound out loud

T: goes through the letter-sounds on the smartboard until the end

Activity: Word stretching

T: We’re going to stretch out these words together, For example, snap, Stretch it out with me s/n/a/p

S: stretch it out, clapping their hands together as the teacher says the word

T: provides other words out e.g. grab, sock, sped

S: sound them out using the clapping technique

Activity: tricky words

T: let’s practice our tricky words

T: shows the students the tricky word on the smartboard and students states the word

Activity: middle sound discrimination

T: here is a picture of a train with three carriages (remind students about first, middle and last carriages)
Each carriage of this train has a sound
We’re going to play ‘What is my middle sound’. I’m going to say a word. You tell me the sound you can hear in the middle of the
word
For example, the word peg. Let’s say the word peg... /p/e/g/. I can hear the sound /e/ in the middle carriage of my train

S: repeat the word and follow along with the teacher

T: demonstrates with the other words

Pot, jet, hop. Peck. Top. Red. Dog

Development:
Students will learn how 20min Activity: Introduction to /k/
to pronounce the letter T: We are going to introduce a new sound. Listen carefully everyone, here’s a new friend for you to meet
and sound k
T: places Kelly Kitten Character Poster on the smartboard
Students will learn other
words starting with k T: This is Kelly Kitten. She starts with the same sound /k/

Students will learn how T: Everybody say it with me; /k/

to write the letter k
S: says the sound /k/
Students will learn
about the character T: Hold up Cody Camel and Kelly Kitten Poster
starting with k We already have a friend who starts with /k/. Remember Cody Camel? Cody Camel /k/
Cody Camel and Kelly Kitten both start with the sound /k/

Activity: Articulation link

Students can Touch
successfully pronounce T: When we say /k/ our voice is turned off. Everyone touch your throat and feel that there is no vibrations as you
the letter and sound k say the sound /k/

Students can S: say the sound /k/, holding their throat

successfully understand
other words starting with Comparing articulation
k T: now say /g/. Touch your throat and feel the vibration when you say /g/. Now say /k/ again

Students can S: try saying /g/ and /k/, seeing the difference
successfully write the
letter k Independent practice
T: turn to your floor buddies and practice saying the sound /k/
Students can
successfully understand S: say the sound /k/
the character starting
with k T: Remember Kelly Kitten. Let’s practice saying Kelly Kitten

S: state Kelly again repeatedly

Activity: linking the sound /k/ to the letter k

T: Everybody look, this is the new letter. The name of this letter is ‘k’. What name?
S: state the letter

T: When you see the letter, k you say the sound /k/ What sound

S: state the sound

T: Watch me as I write the letter k and say its sound /k/

T: when we write the letter k, we start at the top, go straight down, then up halfway, curl in and go out. This letter
is another tall letter like ‘h’ and ‘l’

T: repeats in front of students again

T: say it with me as I write the letter. Start at the top. Go straight down, then up halfway, curl in and go out: /k/

S: states, “Start at the top. Go straight down, then up halfway, curl in and go out: /k/’

T: Hold up your writing hand. Write the letter, k in the air. Say as you write: Start at the top. Go straight down,
then up halfway, curl in and go out: /k/

S: write down the letter l in the air

T; remember the letter ‘c’ makes the sound ‘k’. What sound?

S: states /k/

T: the letter ‘k’ also makes the /k/ sound. What sound

S: states /k/

T: writes the different names on the board, underlining the ‘c’ or ‘k’
‘If we see here, these two names are spelt differently but they both start with the /k/ sound’

Activity: listening comprehension

T: Listen carefully everyone, I am going to tell you a story about our friend, Kelly Kitten
T: Kelly Kitten is friendly and kind. The very best pet you will ever find. A kid finds her hiding and takes are home.
Finally a family, some kin of her own
(kin meaning family)

T: let’s listen again about our friend Kelly Kitten and see if we can hear some words that start with K?
(Emphasize the sound K at the beginning of each word by stretching it out)

T: Kelly Kitten is friendly and kind. The very best pet you will ever find. A kid finds her hiding and takes are home.
Finally, a family, some kin of her own

T: The words Kelly Kitten, kind, kid and kin start with the same sound /k/

T: say it with me: Kelly Kitten

S: repeats

T: asks the following questions:

• Who is friendly and kind (Kelly Kitten)
• Who finds Kelly hiding (a kid)
• Where does the kid take Kelly (home)
• What sort of things might Kelly do that make her a good pet (open ended)

BREAK TIME

Activity: Word building and reading words

T: let’s build some words with our new sound
Place letter tiles on the top of the display

T: let’s build the word ‘kip’ what word

S: repeat

T: Say the word kip with me /k/i/p kip. Repeat it with me

S: k/i/p kip

T: what is the first sound in kip? Listen k/i/p

S: state k
 T; the next sound is

S: I

T: the last sound in the word kip is

S; p

T: read the word with me, /k/i/p kip

Kip is a word. When you have a kip, you are having a little nap or sleep. Can everyone show me how you have
a kip?

S: show them napping/sleeping

T; repeat with other words: kin, keg (metal container), kit (equipment)

Closure:
Students will learn how 10 min Activity: Final review for l
to pronounce the letter T: shows students Lou Kelly Kitten
and sound k What sound do the words Kelly Kitten start with

Students will learn how S: letter K

to write the letter k
T; which two letter make the sound /k/?

S: state letter k and c

Students can T: let’s write the letter k in the air

successfully pronounce
the letter and sound k S: write the letter k in the air

Students can T: what sound does the letter k make?

successfully write the
letter k S: /k/ sound
Activity: Handwriting
T: We’re now going to practice writing the letter k in our handwriting book. Remember, we start from
the top, go down, come back halfway, curl in and back down
Demonstrate to students and let students practice in their book