Chirana Berntson

Preschool Constructivist Lesson Plan Form

Directions: Create a Constructivist Lesson Plan for one preschool activity.

Title of Lesson / Brief Description

Mrs. Wishy-Washys farm; asking questions and recognizing letter sounds

Standards (Performance, Knowledge, Virginia Foundation Blocks):

VA Block 1: Oral Expression

VA Block 3: Phonological Awareness

What concepts do you want children to understand after completing this lesson?

Recall and retell story events and be able to predict what could happen in the story.

Use pictures and words to help in identifying sound/letter from words with the same beginning
consonant (ball, boy, box, bat)

Essential Question:

Teacher will ask children questions about the story during the reading as well as afterwards, such as,
What do you think will happen next? What have you seen on a farm? Do you think the animals miss
the farm? And expect children to answer from the story from their own opinion.

Criteria for Success (How will you know children have gained the understanding of the concepts?):

I would assess it by how well the children participate and if they can retell most of what happened in
the story. Also if they can tell me what sounds the beginning of different words make.

Resources/ Materials Needed (What resources will you and the children use?):

VA Foundation blocks, Early Childhood Experiences in Language Arts Textbook, Mrs. Wishy Washy's
Farm storybook

Management (Is this a child-directed or teacher-directed lesson? What special planning is required
for this lesson? Manage Behavior? Manage materials? Manage technology? Manage learning
center? How much time is needed for this lesson?)

Students are teacher directed when I am explaining to them about the similar word sounds. They are
student directed when they are answering my questions and singing along. This lesson will probably
take about 30 mins and it is important for the teacher to have read and understood the story before
the lesson begins. They also need to have an idea of words they want to ask the children so they can
identify the phonemes.

Learner Diversity (What diverse learner needs do you need to consider when selecting resources,
grouping children or planning the culminating project? Are there any special considerations such as
assistive equipment, technologies or secondlanguage learning to take into account?)

For children who have difficulty expressing themselves verbally, I would ask a question which requires
short answers. I would also provide a prompt,
such as beginning the sentence for the student or giving a picture cue for them.

Engage/ Bridge:
Capture the childrens attention, stimulate their thinking and help them access prior knowledge.

Teacher reads the entire story as a warm up. Then the children will complete a sing along activity with
me. I will sing a song that goes like this:
I went to visit a farm one day. I saw a pig along the way. What do you think I heard it say? Children
will reply by saying Moo, moo, moo teacher will keep singing but change the animals in the song to
duck and cow.

Teacher will engage the children from the use of the puppet of Mrs. Wishy Washy to ask the kids
questions about the book.

Explore/Question:
Give children time to think, plan, investigate and organize collected information.
Teacher will ask children to think about the letter and sound. What letter does the word Pig start with?
Then the teacher will ask children to think about the word that start with the P?

Explain:
Involve children in an analysis of their explorations.
Use reflective activities to clarify and modify their understanding.

At the end teacher will review the story from the book and ask what happened in the story. Teachers
also will ask what letter sounds they learned today.

Elaborate:
Give children the opportunity to expand and solidify their understanding of the concept and/or apply it
to a real-world situation.
Teacher will ask children what would they do if there were in the story as one of the characters? What
would they do with all the animals?

Evaluate and Assess:

Evaluate throughout the lesson. Use observation and assessment to track childrens progress.
Scoring tools developed by teachers target what children must know and do. Consistent use of
assessment tools can improve learning.

Teacher will ask the children what letter sounds did they have trouble identifying? which sounds were
easy for them?

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