For this project, I worked with Natasha Athey to create a SMARTboard lesson to teach alphabet and phonics skills to kindergarten students. The SMARTboard lesson includes activities about recognizing alphabet letter-names, writing lower-case letters, recognizing beginning word-sounds, recognizing rhyming words, creating words by combining onsets and rimes, and a guess-the-mystery-letter activity. This lesson addresses the Enlgish Language Arts Standards: K. Foundational Skills: Print Concepts 1.d. Recognize and name all upper- and lowercase letters of the alphabet. K. Foundational Skills: Phonological Awareness and 2.a. Recognize and produce rhyming words 2.c. Blend and segment onsets and rimes of single-syllable spoken words.
Standards Met Through Completing this Project:
North Carolina Professional Teaching Standards
STANDARD III: TEACHERS KNOW THE CONTENT THEY TEACH
* Teachers align their instruction with the North Carolina Standard
Course of Study
*Teachers know the content appropriate to their teaching specialty
STANDARD IV: TEACHERS FACILITATE LEARNING FOR THEIR STUDENTS
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Teachers plan instruction appropriate for their students
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Teachers use a variety of instructional methods
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Teachers integrate and utilize technology in their instruction
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Teachers help students develop critical thinking and problem solving
Skills
ISTE Standards Met (International Society for Technology Education)
1. FACILITATE AND INSPIRE STUDENT LEARNING AND CREATIVITY
a. Promote, support, and model creative and innovative thinking and inventiveness
2. DESIGN AND DEVELOP DIGITAL AGE LEARNING EXPERIENCES AND ASSESSMENTS
a. Design or adapt relevant learning experiences that incorporate digital tools and resources to promote student learning and creativity
21st Century Standards
1. INQUIRE, THINK CRITICALLY, AND GAIN KNOWLEDGE
1.2 Dispositions in Action
1.2.1 Display initiative and engagement by posing questions and investigating the answers beyond the collection of superficial facts
2. DRAW CONCLUSIONS, MAKE INFORMED DECISIONS, APPLY KNOWLEDGE TO NEW SITUATIONS, AND CREATE NEW KNOWLEDGE
2.1.2 Organize knowledge so that it is useful
2.1.3 Use strategies to draw conclusions from information and
apply knowledge to curricular areas, real world situations, and further investigations