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lesson 7 Signature 2 Assignment

Signature Assignment 2: Early Language and Literacy Lesson Plan (100 points)
The purpose of this assignment is to showcase your skills as a teacher of young children or as a future early childhood practitioner. This signature assignment is designed to demonstrate your understanding of how to integrate learning standards into lesson plans that effectively motivate young children’s reading and writing efforts through developmentally-appropriate practice for children that are preschool-age (three to five years).

This signature assignment aligns with the following professional standards:

Maricopa Community College Course Competencies Arizona Professional Teacher Standard NAEYC Standards CEC Standards
6 Identify how to effectively motivate young children’s reading and writing efforts. * 4,8 3 3,7
For this final signature assignment, you will write an early language or literacy lesson plan connected to standards and implement it with a group of preschool-aged children. You may want to use this lesson plan in your professional portfolio, so do your best work and demonstrate what you know.

If you have never written a standards-based lesson plan before, don’t worry. Review the directions for creating lesson plans for preschool at this site: How to Write a Preschool Lesson Plan. Align your lesson objectives with the standards you chose to work with.

Download the early learning standards or kindergarten standards from your state, or you can use the Head Start Outcomes. The Arizona Early Learning Standards link is included in your lesson narrative. You can find it by looking for the exclamation mark icon.
Choose any literacy or language standard around which you would like to design a lesson. For example, you might choose from the Arizona Early Learning Standards:
Strand 2: Pre-reading Process

Concept 3: Sounds and Rhythms of Spoken Language (Phonological Awareness)

Example: The child hears and understands the different sounds of spoken language.

Create a learning objective that starts with “The student will be able to…” For example, using the standard above:
The student will be able to divide familiar words and names into spoken syllables.

Describe the activity that you will use. For example:
Students will play a version of “Duck, Duck, Goose” by using the names of the students who play the game. The teacher will demonstrate how to play the game by going first. As the teacher taps on each child’s head, he or she will say one part of the chosen student’s name, such as Ta and then sha on the next child’s head. Repeat this on all heads until Tasha is reached, and then say the syllables together. Tasha will then chase the head tapper around until the tapper sits down. The process will begin again.

List the materials that you will need.
Include at least two open-ended questions you might use to scaffold learning.
Describe the evaluation method you will use to collect information about how the students are doing. For example:
A yes-and-no checklist will be used with each student’s name listed and the date of the activity. A + sign will be entered when the child is observed correctly syllabicating the name orally, and a – sign will be entered if the skill is not observed.

Implement your lesson with a group of children (three to five years) and include a statement about how your lesson went and how the children responded. Were they excited and motivated? The statement should be 150–200 words.
Review this Grading Rubric before you submit this assignment to your instructor.

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