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Kelsey Criswell

Letter C Lesson
University of Richmond

Introduction
-Lesson Topic: Letter C
-Length of Lesson: 1 hour
-VA Standards of Learning: K.7 The student will develop an
understanding of basic phonetic principles. a) Identify and name the
uppercase and lowercase letters of the alphabet. b) Match consonant
and short vowel sounds to appropriate letters. c) Identify beginning
consonant sounds in single-syllable words.
K.9 The student will print the uppercase and lowercase letters of the
alphabet independently.

Cognitive Objectives
The student will:
-identify words that start with the letter C.
-identify uppercase and lowercase letters.
-write the letter c independently.

Materials/Technology and Advanced Preparation


- Clumsy Crab by Ruth Galloway
-Chart Paper
-Computer
-tape
-Markers
-Yard stick fishing pole
-letter cards with magnets on back
-pictures of cow, cat, crayon, crab
-crayons
-pencils
-writing paper
-highlighters
-pointers

Teaching and Learning Sequence


Introduction/Anticipatory Set
1. Call the students to the rug for a lesson. Tell the students that
today we will be talking about the letter c. Write an uppercase
letter C for the students telling them that you start on the skyline
and swoop around to the grass line to make an uppercase letter
C. Next write a lowercase letter C telling the students that this
looks just the same as the uppercase letter C except for to write
this one you start at the plane line and swoop around to the
grass line making the lowercase letter c a smaller version of the
uppercase letter C.
2. Tell the students that next we are going to read a book by Ruth
Galloway called Clumsy Crab. Ask the students why the teacher
may have picked this book to learn about the letter C? Invite
students to give their ideas until they figure out that both clumsy
and crab begin with the letter c! Go over the parts of the book
(front cover, back cover and spine) and highlight that Ruth
Galloway is the author meaning that she wrote the words before
reading the book together.
Lesson Development
3. Tell the students that now we have read a book that has many
words in it that start with the letter c we are going to practice
writing the letter c, finding the letter c, and thinking of words
that start with the letter c. Tell the students that we are going to
go fishing for the letter c, practice writing the letter c, and color
pictures of words that start with c. Tell the students that we are
also going to make a “C” chart to hang on our word wall. Break
the students into four groups to complete the following four
centers.

Center 1: Fishing Center


Students will use a meter stick fishing pole to go fishing for
letters. There will be index cards face down with letters written
on the back. The students will take turns going fishing for letters
but they can only keep the letter “c’s” that they find.

Center 2: Coloring Center


Students will select a picture of a “c” word and color it. Choices
include a cat, crab, crayon, or cow.

Center 3: Writing Center


Students will practice writing uppercase and lowercase C’s on
handwriting paper. There will be highlighted letters to trace and
then students will attempt to draw them on their own.

Center 4: Pointing Center


Students will use the class pointers to find things around the
classroom that start with the letter c (tell the students to look for
the labels that are placed around the classroom, book titles, and
nametags.)

As the students are working in centers call students that are in


the pointing center over to the computer to help you to complete
the class chart. Using Tagxedo have the students come to the
computer and come up with a word that starts with the letter c.
Help the students come up with this on their own by repeating
the sound that the letter C makes. When a student comes up
with the word dictate the spelling to them so that they can
identify the letters as they use the keyboard to type. After every
student has had a turn create the chart and add a cat to the
background making a class chart of many words that start with
the letter c. Print out a large copy to hang on the class word wall.

Closure
After each student has had a turn at the computer with the
teacher, call the students back to the rug. Hold up the class chart
that they created together. Point to each word that the students
came up with the review all the different words that the class
came up with that start with the letter C. Display the cat chart of
letter c words on the word wall under the letter c.

Assessment
Formative: Teacher will observe the students throughout the reading of
the story and during the centers. Teacher will observe students during
independent activity and class conversations following centers.

Summative: Each student will independently come up with a word that


starts with the letter c. Teacher will observe the child during the
computer center as they identify letters as the spelling of their c word
is dictated to them. Teacher will collect the students’ work from the
writing center to monitor how they are doing on writing their letters.

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