Language Arts lesson for kindergarten goes with Mercer Mayer book

Language Arts

Dinosaur Bone Match Up

Language Arts/ TEKS: 110.11, Kindergarten

(b) Knowledge and skills

(2) Reading/ Beginning Reading Skills/ Phonological Awareness.  Students display phonological awareness.  Students are expected to:

(F) blend spoken onsets and rimes to form simple words (e.g., onset/c/ and rime/at/ make cat);

Jackdaws: Stuffed dinosaur, dinosaur fruit snacks

Objective:  Students will be able to mix and match dinosaur bones to create different words and be able to distinguish between real words and made up words.

Activity/ Procedure:

·         Read the book The Lost Dinosaur Bone by Mercer Mayer

·         Introduce activity and explain how to mix and match the dinosaurs bones to create different words and see who can create the most words

·         First students will cut out the dinosaur bones with preprinted word parts

·         After bones are cut out students may begin making words

·         After a few minutes of working on their words, explain that you want them to start writing the words down on the sheet that has a chart on it.  Explain to the students to only write words that are real in the box to the left and write made up words in the box to the right

·         When students think they are to a point and can’t come up with anymore, have the students come one at a time to the front of the room and show the class the words they wrote on their sheet.  If the student has a word wrote in the wrong box ask the student why they think that word goes there and let the student try to work it out themselves, help them after a minute or so

Materials:

·         The Lost Dinosaur Bone by Mercer Mayer

·         Handout with Dinosaurs bones and chart

·         Scissors

·         Pencil

Reteach/extend:

·         Give student a sheet of dinosaur bones without word parts and have them come up with some to add to the lesson

Assessment: Students will be assessed by the sheet with chart.  Student should have the correct words in the correct columns. 

Related Books: The Berenstain Bears and the Missing Dinosaur Bone by Stan Berenstain, Dinosaurs Love Underpants by Claire Freedman