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Recognizing Upper and Lowercase Letters

Grade
Kindergarten

Subject
Reading, Writing

Length of lesson 1 hour

Lesson
Overview/Rationale Students will gain knowledge of reading and writing by being able to indicate both uppercase
and lowercase letters through a group activity. Students will work in groups of two.

Curriculum
Reading Standards Foundational Skills (K–5):
Framework/Standard
“Recognize and name all upper- and lowercase letters of the alphabet.”

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Learning Objectives
● Students will be able to identify uppercase letters
● Students will be able to recognize lowercase letters
● Students will be able to differentiate between uppercase and lowercase letters through
a race

Technology Uses
● Computer
● Promethean board

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Materials
● Online alphabet learning musical
● Capital and Lowercase Letters Worksheet
● Crayons

Procedure
● All students will watch a video and listen to the alphabet song
● Students will get into groups of two
● Each group will receive one worksheet with a key to color the page and reveal a hidden
picture belonging to a letter
● One student in each group will color in the spaces with an uppercase letter
● One student in each group will color in the spaces with a lowercase letter
● First group to finish the worksheet will receive a special treat

Assessment
▪ I checked the understanding of the students by viewing their worksheets to make sure
the correlating parts to the images had been correct.

▪ To further know if students truly understand, each group will present their designated
letter to the class.

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Kindergarten Writing/Reading Rubric 2018

Student Name: Teacher Name: Date:

Beginning Developing Accomplished Exemplary Score

1 2 3 4

Development The student was able to The student was able to The student was able to The student was able to
color in 1-2 spaces on color in 3-5 spaces on the color in most spaces on correlate all parts to the
the worksheet. worksheet. the worksheet. image on the worksheet.
Description Has no understanding of Does not fully engage or Little understanding of Able to present
letter or image describe letter and image. letter and image. designated letter and
describe image.
Writing Recognizes the Recognizes the difference Recognizes the difference Recognizes the difference
Uppercase and difference between two between five uppercase and between numerous between all uppercase
Lower Letters uppercase and lowercase letters. uppercase and lowercase and lowercase lettering.
lowercase letters. lettering.
Writing Name The student does not The student writes one or Student writes first name Student writes first and
write any letters for more letters for their name. in correct uppercase and last name in correct
their name. lowercase lettering. uppercase and lowercase
lettering.
Listening Skills Student does not listen Student rarely listens when Student listens when Student listens when
when others talk. others talk in group and others talk, both in group others talk, both in groups
Student often interrupts class. and class. and in class.
when others speak. Student incorporates or
builds off of the ideas of
others.

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