Grade: ELL Kindergarten Jefferson Elementary School

Name: Jeannine Roseberry

Grade: ELL Kindergarten–Jefferson Elementary School

Subject: Language Arts

Unit: Rhyme Time

Content Standard Students in Wisconsin will read and respond to a wide range of writing to build an understanding of written materials, of themselves, and of others.

Performance Standard A.4.1 Use effective reading strategies to achieve their purpose in reading.

Benchmark Students will be able to demonstrate phonemic awareness – the ability to hear and manipulate the sounds within words.

Content Standard Students in Wisconsin will apply their knowledge of the nature, grammar, and variations of American English.

Performance Standard D.4.1 Develop their vocabulary of words, phrases, and idioms as a means of improving communication

Benchmark Students will be able to use a variety of words to express ideas.

Big Ideas: Words are made up of sounds. Words convey meaning.

Key Concepts/Key Questions:  In rhyming words, the beginning sounds are different, but the ending sounds are the same.  A word family is a group of words that all sound the same at the end. Skills, Knowledge and Vocabulary to Understand the Content: Word Families – at, et, it, ot, ug, un, in, en, ay, op

Rhyming Words Part 1 Rhyming Words Part 2  cat, sat, hat, fat, bat  fun, done, bun, run, sun  bet, let, net, pet, vet  win, bin, fin, pin, tin  mitt, kit, sit, bit, hit  men, pen, hen, ten, den  rot, dot, hot, pot, not  way, play, day, say, clay  bug, rug, hug, dug, tug  pop, mop, hop, top, cop

Formative and Summative Assessments: -Teacher observation -District Online Assessment: Phonemic Awareness (December and May) -Quarterly Report Card -Assessment rubric attached. Students are tested individually at the beginning of the year for a benchmark assessment and then quarterly to track progress.

Learning Activities: (including performance tasks, differentiation, grouping, enrichment and re-teaching, and materials)

The lesson activities in this unit are designed to be taught and re-taught throughout the year as a spiraling curriculum. Alternatively, the whole group lessons and small group center activities could be concentrated over a shorter period of time to focus on rhyming at a particular time of the year. Small groups will be both homogeneous and heterogeneous depending on the activity and the level of differentiation needed for the specific students and the type of activity. Groups may be based on ability level, readiness level, language proficiency, and/or interest, also depending on the activity and the level of differentiation needed for specific students. Some activities are designed to be independent centers once they have been introduced and taught to all students either through a whole or small group format. Some centers will have choice options and challenge activities as a means to differentiate. Student support given by the teacher will be differentiated as well based on student need. Overview of Activities: SMART Board whole group lessons on rhymes PowerPoint Rhyming Jeopardy–Presentation or SMART Board Small Group Center Activities Music-Listen to Rhyming Songs or Rhyming Podcasts Computer–Rhyming Websites Laptops-Word Family PowerPoint Presentations Digital Camera–Photograph Rhyming Objects & Record Rhymes SMART Board–Rhyming Lessons Rhyming Notebook Writing Activities Rhyming Board Games Listening Center–Rhyming Story Magnetic Tiles/Whiteboard – Word Families Overhead – Poems-Match word strips/highlight rhymes Flip Videos – Groups make a video of a rhyming family

Smart Board Activities Use to introduce rhyming concepts as well as re-teach, review and practice skills in both whole group and small group formats. SMART Board Notebook Files–taken from www.education.smarttech.com (See links to SMART Notebook Files on Mentor Page)

Rhyming Activities for Smart Boards Good for whole group introductory activity. It contains excellent concept teaching slides with several activities and links to rhyming games.

AT Family Good for whole group introductory activity. Rhyme Time-Good for a whole group activity, this file includes a lot of picture rhymes. It also includes a couple of harder, more advanced word families. It includes two pages of clips that can be used to create more rhyming activities.

Rhyme Circle Map-Good for small group. One page involves dragging and dropping pictures/words that rhyme with log into a circle. The second page involves dragging and dropping pairs of pictures/words that rhyme with each other.

Rhyming Circles-Good for small group or whole group. It includes pages that have two circles with a rhyming family in each circle. The students drag pictures into the correct circle. It includes at, og, ag, ug, ig, ot, ox, and it. It also has a blank template page where you can add your own word families. Rhyming Words-Good for small group or whole group. Includes pages with boxes of pictures and the printed word. Students drag boxes from the bottom to make a page full of rhyming pairs. It also includes a blank template page for customizing your own.

Picture Rhymes-Good for small group. It has simple pages with just a few rhymes to work with.

PowerPoint Rhyming Jeopardy This PowerPoint game can be used as a whole group activity to teach, re- teach or practice rhyming skills with the word families at, et, it, ot, and ug. Part II Rhyming Jeopardy is under construction to include the word families un, in, en, ay, and op. The PowerPoint can be projected on a screen or SMART Board, or played by a small group at a computer center. Keep score using tally marks and count totals at the end. (See the link on my Mentor Page to this PowerPoint file entitled Rhyming Jeopardy) PowerPoint Word Family Presentations This small group center activity uses Word Family PowerPoint Presentations created by Khanphan Neuaone, 1st Grade ELL Teacher at Jefferson Elementary. Check out laptops for students to use at a small group center. Insert Flash Drives of the presentations in the laptops. Students work through the presentations to practice rhyming skills based on interest. Students can work in pairs or individually, depending on the number of laptops you have available.

Digital Camera Center This is a small group partner activity, so check-out two or three digital cameras, one for each pair of students in the small group. Provide the group with a collection of objects that rhyme from 2 or 3 different word families. Limit choices for students having difficulty and provide more choices for students who you want to challenge. One partner holds up two objects that rhyme while the other partner takes a digital photograph. Partners take turns holding the objects and taking the photographs.

The teacher will then need to download the photos and import them to a PowerPoint for use on another day. The idea is to create one slide for each photo. On another day, use the same small groups for centers and have each child narrate their slide using Garage Band. For example, the student would say, “Cat rhymes with hat.” The teacher can then add sound effects to the PowerPoint slide and overlay the student’s voice to their individual slide or slides. The teacher can also type in the text to go with the voice recording. For older students, you may want to bridge this to a computer lab activity where the students add the text as well as the voice over. View the completed PowerPoint as a class to hear all the students narrate their slides. Also print a copy of the PowerPoint to make a class book and place it in the reading center.

Music Center Individual rhyming songs can be burned to CDs for use in this small group center activity. You can also make big books to go with songs by Dr. Jean, Jack Hartman and Shari Sloan. If you have access, students can use individual portable CD players with head phones to listen to their favorite songs and track text in the big books. Use one of my favorite websites by Shari Sloan for access to the big book directions and text. Here is the website: www.kidscount1234.com/ This is a great independent center once you have taught the students how to use it. I also found a SMART Board file for some of Dr. Jean’s songs. See the links on the mentor page for that file.

Listening Center Another great independent center once students are taught how to use the equipment. Students choose from a variety of rhyming storybooks in the listening center. They listen to the story on tape or CD while they follow text in the books. I also designate one or two students in the class as our “technology experts.” I take time to work with these students so they know what to check in case of technical difficulties with the equipment. When a group has a problem, they go to the “technology experts” first to avoid interrupting the teacher who may be involved with a different group.

Overhead Center This can work as an independent center once students are taught how to use the materials and equipment. It does take several times of teacher- led practice to establish the routine. Students pull out the overhead to project a rhyme on the wall at this center, taking turns with the different jobs. I have a basket on the bottom of the cart with individual envelopes for each rhyme. Each envelope has a transparency, sentence strips and a mini-book of the rhyme. Project the transparency and one student uses a hand-pointer to track the print projected on the wall while the students recite the rhyme together. Students take turns with the pointer and repeat the rhyme. Another student can place small sentence strips in a tabletop pocket chart in the proper order to match the rhyme on the wall. Students can highlight, underline, or circle rhyming words in the mini books. You could also make a workbook of all the rhymes that students work through instead of the mini books.

Rhyming Board Games I use this activity at a Puzzles and Games Center to focus on rhyming. Students choose from a variety of rhyming games and puzzles. The center is also used to practice a range of phonemic awareness skills. It is a great independent center once students are taught how to play the games. Lakeshore Learning has some very good pre-made games and literacy centers that I use. Magnetic Tiles/Whiteboard Activity I use these materials from Teacher Resources at an ABC/Word Study Center. Students place magnetic tiles under word family categories on the whiteboard. I limit the number of tiles and word families when students are first learning about rhymes. As students grow, the number of tiles and categories are increased. This is a great center for teaching English language learners vocabulary as well as rhymes. Once students have learned the names of the tiles, this center can be independent.

Rhyming Notebook This year I am developing a Rhyming Notebook that can be used at the Writing Center. The notebook will include dotted text as well as fill in the blank and matching activities focused around the 10 rhyming families on the Kindergarten report card.

Flip Video Activity This is a small group, teacher led center intended as more of a culminating activity on team building and rhymes. Heterogeneous grouping is recommended to allow for students to help one another with deciding what to say. Each small group will be asked to choose a word family to make a video about. Students will need to find rhyming objects in the room or school to use in their video. They could also bring in objects from home that belong to that word family. They will need to decide on a title for the video. They also need to decide how to introduce what the video is about and decide who will narrate the introduction. Students will choose objects to talk about that rhyme, with each student taking a turn at being the “actor.” They need to decide who goes 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th. They will also take turns as the photographer recording with the Flip Video. They should decide on how to end the video as well. I plan to download the video clips and create a combined video (using either FlipShare or iMovie) with their selected title, team member names and individual clips. We can then view the videos as a class projected on a large screen. DVDs can be burned for each team member to take home a copy of their video. Computer Center Activities These activities can be introduced in the computer lab so that students are familiar with the sites. Also, create a link to all the sites on one web page so that students can access them independently when at the independent computer center in the classroom.

Construct-a-Word Construct-a-Word provides a simple, engaging way for students to generate dozens of different words by first choosing an ending (for example -an, -ed, -at, -op) and then adding a beginning letter or blend. When a correct word is created, the word is stored in a Word Bank where students can read and review their words. For each ending, Construct-a-Word prompts students to create between 6 and 14 different possible words, adding an element of fun and discovery. http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/construct/

Building Language for Literacy This is a set of three interactive online games to practice literacy skills. Nina the Naming Newt provides students with opportunities to sort objects that belong in different places in the community, such as a store, a home, and a restaurant. Reggie the Rhyming Rhino gives students practice in identifying rhyming words, also specific to the community settings. Leo the Letter-Loving Lobster asks students to sort letters corresponding with the beginning letters of objects found in the various community areas. http://www.teacher.scholastic.com/activities/bll/index.htm Gus and Inky’s Underwater Adventure (Chapter 1) On Gus the Bunny's first underwater visit with his friend Inky, the pair offers young children several short activities that explore rhyming words, word recognition, letter names and letter sounds. http://www.getreadytoread.org/games/game1/shell.html

Gus and Inky’s Rhyme Time (Chapter 2) Gus tries out hip-hop beats as Inky helps him learn about rhyming. Children participate in the story by finding words that rhyme to help Gus write his first hip-hop song. http://www.getreadytoread.org/games/game2/index.html Orsons Farm Introduction to Phonemic Awareness Phonemic awareness activities with the Garfield gang dealing with segmenting words, rhyming words, blending sounds, syllables, and deleting and substituting sounds. When you scroll over the picture it tells the students what the picture is. Very good audio for kindergartners to be able to do this site independently. http://www.professorgarfield.org/Phonemics/farmIntro2.html

Word Family Sort This online activity is designed for beginning and struggling readers to help them recognize word patterns and learn about onset and rime. Students are first asked to select a vowel, and are then presented with a series of words to sort into short-vowel word families. Students can then print their completed word family chart and use it to practice reading the words fluently. http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/wordfamily/

Word World Frog’s Rhyming Students pick the rhyming word from three choices that matches the one on frog's rhyme machine. If you scroll over each word, frog will say them again. When they get the answer right the word makes the picture of the object. There are other phonemic awareness activities on this site. Each character at the bottom works on different literacy skills. http://pbskids.org/wordworld/characters/game_frm.html