How books and words work: Pre-K reading & writing
Print concepts: letters make words, spaces, left to right. A free Pre-K lesson plan with a hook, practice that links to free activities, and an exit ticket. Copy it and make it yours.
Lesson plan
Goal
- Students work toward: print concepts: letters make words, spaces, left to right.
Hook (5 min)
- Ask the class: what do you already know about how books and words work?
- Take two or three answers and write them where everyone can see them.
Teach (8 min)
- Say the big idea in one plain sentence: how books and words work.
- Show one example, then one that is not an example, and ask how the two differ.
- Have students tell a partner the idea in their own words.
Practise (7 min)
- Choose one for the whole class or let groups pick:
- Learn: Trail: Letters make words (https://peabody.kids/world/write/write-letters-make-words)
Exit ticket (3 min)
- On a slip or aloud: one thing I learned about how books and words work, and one question I still have.
- Sort the slips into: got it, nearly, not yet. Start tomorrow with the last pile.
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