Natasha Spinell
Certified PreK-3
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Lesson Plan Examples
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.


