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Teachers will | SWBAT = Students will be able to | HOTS = Higher Order Thinking Skills

SIOP Lesson Title: Creative Curriculum/ Fall/Trees

I want students to understand the role and characteristics of trees. I want students to
become aware of the seasons and how each season has different weather.
Content Standard(s):

Grade: Prekindergarten
Marcie Burstyn/ Hema Patel
Delmis Garcia/ Mabel
Fernandez

Standards:
STATE GOAL 4:
Listen and speak effectively in a variety of situations
STATE GOAL 5:
Use the language arts to acquire, assess and communicate information.
Analyze and evaluate information acquired from various sources.
1.B.ECa Comprehend a broad range of reading materials.
Retell information from a story.
WIDA Standard: Reading
Identify name in print
Writing: Draw and scribble pictures
SSL Spanish Language Arts:
LECTURA Y LITERATURA: Leer y responder a la literatura y otras obras
representativas
de las sociedades hispanohablantes.
A. Aplicar estrategias de lectura para mejorar la comprensin de textos

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impresos en espaol
C. Leer, interpretar y analizar crticamente materiales literarios y no literarios de
pases
y comunidades hispanohablantes
D. Leer en espaol con propsitos diversos.

3. LENGUAJE ORAL: Escuchar y hablar eficazmente en espaol en situaciones

diversas.
B. Comunicar oralmente informacin, opiniones e ideas usando el lenguaje
apropiado
segn la situacin, el propsito y la audiencia.
Key Vocabulary:

Visuals/Resources/Supplementary Materials:

Autumn
Trunk
Branch
Crown
Tronco
Rama
Copa
Acrorn

Dry erase boards

Playdough
Manipulatives
Mirrors
Pictures of Trees
Leaves from our nature walk
Read Aloud Stories
Computers and tablets

windy
cloudy
jack-o-lantern
seeds
stem
pumpkin

HOTS: Assessment: Create and share: (Language aspect to be

used as part of the formative assessment).

Summative assessment: students work will be collected and
place in a folder that compiles their understanding.
Teaching strategies gold assessment and observation

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Connections to Prior Knowledge/Building Background:

What are the characteristics of the trees in our community?

Who lives in tees?
What food comes from trees?
Who takes care of trees?
How do trees change?
What can we do with parts of trees?

Content Objective(s):

Meaningful Activities:

Read Alouds:

Trees in the environment

Learning about trees and why we
need them
Changes in trees
What can we do with trees
What can we get from trees
Who lives in the trees
Seasons, Weather and its changes

Trees throughout the four seasons

color changing leaves
Investigate parts of a tree
Using our senses to explore
Evergreen or Deciduous trees
Trees characteristics
Trees and their habitants

Charlie Anderson
Pablos tree
Trees, trees, trees
A tree is for.
A Grand old tree
Apples,Apples
Fall Leaves
Tree Count
Shape big book
It's Pumpkin Time

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Fall
Apple Farmer Annie
It's Pumpkin Time

Language Objective(s):

Meaningful Activities:

Review/Assessment:

Use language to express thoughts

and needs
Uses
an
vocabulary

expanding

expressive

Speaks clearly
Uses conventional grammar

Music and Movement

TPR- how to be a tree
The green grass grows around
Looby Loo
All around the Mulberry Bush
What are you wearing?
Hokey Pokey

Tells about another time or place

Wrap-Up:
Oral discussions (KWL chart)
Family tree (our roots, our family)
Weather prediction and observation
Nature walks with picture diagrams
Sequencing of stories
Students work and Gold teaching strategies observations

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Preparation
_x__ Adaptation of Content
_x__ Links to Background
___ Links to Past Learning
___ Strategies incorporated
Integration of Processes
__x_ Reading
__x_ Writing

SIOP Features
Scaffolding
__x_ Modeling
__x_ Guided practice
__x_ Independent practice
___ Comprehensible input
Application
__x_ Hands-on
__x_ Meaningful

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Grouping Options
___ Whole class
_x__ Small groups
___ Partners
___x Independent
Assessment
___ xIndividual
__x_ Group

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__x_ Speaking
__x_ Listening

_x__ Linked to objectives

__x_ Promotes engagement

Gold Objectives

___ Written
__x_ Oral

Gold Objectives

Development Objectives: Language/literacy Objectives:

1. Regulate own emotions

1. Listen and understand increasingly complex language

a) Manages feelings

a) Comprehends language

b) Follows limits and expectations

b) Follows directions

c) Takes care of own needs appropriately

2. Use language to express thoughts and needs

a) Uses an expanding expressive vocabulary

2. Establish and sustain positive relationships

a) Forms relationships with adults

b) Speaks clearly

b) Responds to emotional cues

c) Uses conventional grammar

c) Interacts with peers

d) Tells about another time or place

d) Make friends
3. Participate cooperatively and constructively

3. Use appropriate conversational and other

communication skills.

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a) Engages in conversations

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in group situations
a) Balances needs and rights of self and
others

b) Uses social rules of language

4. Demonstrate knowledge of the alphabet
a) Identifies and names letters

b) Solves social problems

4. Demonstrate positive approaches to learning

b) Uses letter sound knowledge

5. Demonstrate knowledge of print and its uses

a) Attends and engages

a) Uses and appreciates books

b) Persists
c) Solves problems

b) Uses print concepts

6. Comprehend and respond to books and other texts

d) Shows curiosity and motivation

a) Interacts during read alouds and book

conversations

e) Shows flexibility and inventiveness in

thinking

b) Uses emergent reading skills

5. Remember and connect experiences

a) Recognizes and recalls

c) Retells stories
7. Demonstrate emergent writing skills

b) Makes connections

a) Writes name

6. Use classification skills

Math developing objectives:
7. Use number concepts and operations
a) Counts

b) Writes to convey meaning

8. Demonstrate progress in listening to and understanding
English
Demonstrate progress in speaking English

b) Quantifies
c) Connect numerals with their
quantities

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8. Explore and describe spatial relationships
and shapes
a) Understand spatial relationships.
b) understand shapes
9. Compare and measure
10.Demonstrate knowledge of patterns
11.Explore the visual arts
12.Explore musical concepts and expression
13.Explore dance and movement concepts
Explore drama through action and language

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Illinois Early Learning Standards for Preschool
English Language Proficiency Standard 1: Social and Instructional Language.
English Language Proficiency Standard 2: The language of Language Arts.
English Language Proficiency Standard 3: The language of Mathematics.
English Language Proficiency Standard 5: The language of Social Studies. In my class, I have:
Level 1: Entering, Level 2: Beginning, Level 3: Developing, Level 4: Expanding, Level 5:
Bridging.
Level 1 Entering: Identify environmental print related to self and community.
Level 2 Beginning: Find real-life objects or pictures related to self and community that match environmental
print around classroom or school in L1 or L2
Level 3 Developing: Identify icons, symbols and words related to self and community found in
environmental print or pictures around classroom or school in L1 or L2

SSL

Spanish Language Arts:

LECTURA Y LITERATURA: Leer y responder a la literatura y otras obras representativas de las sociedades
hispanohablantes.
A. Aplicar estrategias de lectura para mejorar la comprensin de textos impresos en espaol C. Leer,
interpretar y analizar crticamente materiales literarios y no literarios de pases
y comunidades
hispanohablantes
D. Leer en espaol con propsitos diversos.
3. LENGUAJE ORAL: Escuchar y hablar eficazmente en espaol en situaciones diversas. B. Comunicar
oralmente informacin, opiniones e ideas usando el lenguaje apropiado segn la situacin, el propsito y
la audiencia.

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Illinois Early Learning Standards for Preschool
English Language Proficiency Standard 1: Social and Instructional Language.
English Language Proficiency Standard 2: The language of Language Arts.
English Language Proficiency Standard 3: The language of Mathematics.
English Language Proficiency Standard 5: The language of Social Studies. In my class, I have:
Level 1: Entering, Level 2: Beginning, Level 3: Developing, Level 4: Expanding, Level 5:
Bridging.
Level 1 Entering: Identify environmental print related to self and community.
Level 2 Beginning: Find real-life objects or pictures related to self and community that match environmental
print around classroom or school in L1 or L2
Level 3 Developing: Identify icons, symbols and words related to self and community found in
environmental print or pictures around classroom or school in L1 or L2

SSL

Spanish Language Arts:

LECTURA Y LITERATURA: Leer y responder a la literatura y otras obras representativas de las sociedades
hispanohablantes.
A. Aplicar estrategias de lectura para mejorar la comprensin de textos impresos en espaol C. Leer,
interpretar y analizar crticamente materiales literarios y no literarios de pases
y comunidades
hispanohablantes
D. Leer en espaol con propsitos diversos.
3. LENGUAJE ORAL: Escuchar y hablar eficazmente en espaol en situaciones diversas. B. Comunicar
oralmente informacin, opiniones e ideas usando el lenguaje apropiado segn la situacin, el propsito y

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la audiencia.

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(Developed by Melissa Castillo & Nicole Teyechea. Used with permission.)

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(Developed by Melissa Castillo & Nicole Teyechea. Used with permission.)

2008 Pearson Education, Inc.