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Here is an example of a week's worth of lesson plans for my Title I literacy groups at New Philadelphia City Schools. I worked with students in kindergarten and first grade on phonological awareness, letter sound recognition, and phonics skills. I utilized Lively Letters, West Virginia Phonics, and Heggerty as interventions. Each lesson began with reviewing our goal and our lessons followed a similar routine each day. I would introduce a skill and we would work on that skill together utilizing the gradual release method until students mastered the skill and could move through the application pieces (dictation and decoding a passage) independently. Each Thursday I would progress monitor my students by asking them to read a set of five words that followed their phonics pattern. If students were able to read 4/5 or 5/5 of those words, three times in a row, it was time to move on to the next skill. For my kindergarten students, I followed the Lively Letters scope and sequence and assessed students on letter sound production each Thursday.

Here is an example of a week's worth of lesson plans for my Title I literacy groups at Perry Local Schools. I worked with students in kindergarten through fifth grade on phonological awareness, letter sound recognition, and phonics skills. I utilized Lively Letters, West Virginia Phonics, and Heggerty as interventions. Each lesson began with reviewing our goal and our lessons followed a similar routine each day. I would introduce a skill and we would work on that skill together utilizing the gradual release method until students mastered the skill and could move through the application pieces (dictation and decoding a passage) independently. Each Thursday I would progress monitor my students by asking them to read a set of five words that followed their phonics pattern. If students were able to read 4/5 or 5/5 of those words, three times in a row, it was time to move on to the next skill. For my kindergarten students, I followed the Lively Letters scope and sequence and assessed students on letter sound production each Thursday.

Here is an example of a weekly lesson plan that I created for my prekindergarten classroom during the 2019-2020 school year. The lessons focused on colors, the letter Yy, and the number 8. We utilized the Handwriting Without Tears Wet, Dry, Try method to work on letter formation.

Here is an example of a lesson plan that I created for a substitute in my prekindergarten classroom during the 2019-2020 school year.

Here is a social studies unit that I created about Native American tribes and their homes in the past. I taught this unit in a second grade classroom during student teaching. My cooperating teacher had mentioned that she had her students build Native American homes out of paper the year before, so I took that idea and formulated a unit around it.

Here are lessons I used as a second grade literacy unit, which includes Interactive Read Alouds and Mini Lessons. My cooperating teacher had her students write about their reading by writing a letter to her each week. In the letter, students were asked to summarize a book that they had read. They were given the prompt: somebody, wanted, but, then, so. Somebody meaning the main character in the story, Wanted meaning what that main character wanted, But meaning what problem arose, Then meaning how the main character tried to solve the problem, and So meaning how the problem was really solved in the end. I had noticed that many students were struggling with this aspect of their letter. The students were filling up their entire page by retelling the story, sometimes even word for word. I decided to create a unit that would give a more in-depth explanation of using the SWBTS summarizing strategy and how it differed from re-telling. I decided to incorporate technology by using the smartboard to show a video of a celebrity reading a children's book. We made story strips and beaded bracelets, based off of an idea I had seen on Pinterest.

Later in the year, I had one of the students write about this lesson during Writer's Workshop. He had mentioned that this lesson was one of his favorite lessons this year. I think the fact that students were given a tool (the bracelet) that they could use to help them write their letters for the remainder of the school year made this lesson special.