Admire the A

Lesson Plan
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Target Words:
- amazing
- apple
- alphabet
- admire
Materials:
- Coloring pages
- Apple graphic
- Letter cards
- Letter-finding page
Overview
The children will decorate and admire the letter A as they recognize and name the letter A.
Literacy Activities
Admire the A
- Write the letter A on a whiteboard, name the letter, and have the children write the A in the air with their fingers.
- Explain that the word admire starts with the letter A and means to think that someone or something is good or great like a person admires an artist’s painting.
- Give the children an A coloring page and markers or crayons.
- Tell the children to decorate the A to make it look amazing, and invite them to admire (or say how much they like) each other’s artwork.
- Model admiring the children’s work by giving compliments such as, “I admire your amazing A artwork!”
Admire an alphabet apple
- Give the children a picture of an apple and tell them they will turn the apple into an alphabet apple by pasting the letter A on the apple.
- Give the children the letter cards and have them cut out the letters (supporting as needed) and mix them up.
- Tell the children to sort through the letter cards and paste the letter A on the apple but not any other letters.
- When a child finds a letter A have the child say “I found an A!”
- If a child mistakenly identifies a distractor card as a letter A, have him or her look at the letter A on the whiteboard and compare it to the letter he or she picked.
- Have the children write the letter A around the apple.
- Let the children admire each other’s alphabet apple.
More Practice
Find the target letters
- Display the letter-finding page and have the children find and circle the As.
- Have the children say, “I found an A!”
- If a child misidentifies a distractor letter as the letter A, have him or her look at the letter A on the whiteboard and compare it to the letter he or she picked.
- Once the children have found all of the As, have them color the As and admire the colors.
Standards
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CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.K.1.D: Recognize and name all letters in the alphabet.

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Admire the A