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Assignment: Modified Language & Literacy lesson plans are much simpler than the regular NAEYC required lesson plan. They only contain 6 requirements. You must finish a toddler modified Literacy play lesson plan, a preschool modified Literacy lesson plan & a school-age modified Literacy lesson plan.

Modified lesson plans must contain the following:

Materials: a list of things children will use to accomplish the lesson - list them. Depending on what you're doing, this could be a list of many things. For example it could be a book, stories, alphabet letters, writing, rhymes, alliteration, sounds of language, songs to tap our syllables in words, phonics, sounds that are alike & different, etc..
Objective: What you want children to learn or be able to do about literacy? It must be an interactive and child-focused objective. That means children will complete the whole activity any way they want. It must be a literacy activity that the child will finish any way he/she wants to. Each child will probably be completing the activity at different times, so you will need to deal with each child as they finish the activity. What do you want them to learn about literacy through this activity? You could be using books, stories, print, alphabet letters, rhymes, literacy games, other games for sorting things, having children write, or playing rhyming or alliteration games.. The presentation contains 4 parts:
Introduction: Things you will say to the children to get their interest in literacy and the activity you will lead about literacy. Questions you might ask them to create their interest. You must tell them what they are going to accomplish. You will need to ask questions to see what they already know about the type of literacy you are using. A literacy activity is about the many different things they could do as noted above and the way they will be the activity that you planned. You may need to tell them how they are going to get started. You will need to give them lots of choices.
Procedure: What materials will you give children to successfully do the activity? What do you need to explain to them? Is there an activity you are going to do with them? Did you design some games they will play? Are you doing things as part of a small circle time:
Find things that rhyme with this word.
Find other letters that have a similar sound.
Find something else that rhymes with this word.
In this game, you will sort the words that have the same beginning sound.
Make up sounds that sound like this sound - SH
How will you get them started? What do you want them to experience and/or learn? What kind of questions will you as they work on what you've asked them to finish?
Questions to Enhance Children's Learning: Depending on the activity, what kinds of questions will you ask them to help them figure things out? These need to be open-ended questions, which do not have a right answer. Children can answer any way they want. It's probably going to be questions about how words are created. It can be questions asking them what kind of effects sounds have together. Helping them talk about the rhymes & sounds words make. The idea is to get them discovering all the things they can learn through this activity. Your asking them all kinds of questions about how sounds work. Ideas are: "How do these letters sound?" "When you put these letters together, what kind of sound do they make?" "Can you think of other words that rhyme with this word?" You also need to think about what part of the objective they are completing. Can they rhyme, can they put sounds together, can they tell how words sound alike, etc?
Ending: The close of the activity is important. You want children to feel good about what they have done & learned. You might want to refer them to extension activities they could do that will allow them to keep discovering other ways to practice literacy. How will you end the activity? It could be different because children will finish at different times or they might end it all at the same time, depending on what the activity is. You want to make sure they know what they discovered and make them feel good about what they have done. You'll want to talk about how others in the class will see what they worked on.