Alphabet Tracing Lesson Plan 

Unit topic or theme: 

Teaching students with special needs how to trace/write letters of the alphabet

Grade level: 

Special education classes age 14 with intellectual disabilities

Lesson objective: 

• The students will be able to hold an understanding on how to trace letters of the alphabet and what order they go in. They will be only focusing on capital letters to get a basic understanding. This will hopefully allow them to move onto tracing letters of their name on a sheet of paper after the online game is concluded. 

Instructional techniques: 

To start the class, a video will be shown to demonstrate how the tracing game works and what the students should do. The students will be paired one on one with para educators, helping them along if they come into any troubles. The Para educator will have an assessment sheet in front of them writing down how they are doing.

Instructional material: 

• An instructional video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGzRsIvVeDY&app=desktop)
• Laptops/computers
• ABCYA.com (letter and number tracing game in pre-k section) https://www.abcya.com/games/letter_trace
• A worksheet to conclude the activity (attached) 
• pencils/ colored pencils/ markers 

Theoretical perspective:

This is important for students to learn for many reasons. The main one being that they will be able to write the name they were given to them. They will be able to be identified on papers without there paraeducators writing their names for them. Many students want to learn and achieve something and this is a good starting point for them. This could carry onto them understanding letter placement in the alphabet which would allow them to start trying to read with the help of people around them.

Procedure: 

1.   The teacher will introduce the concept of the alphabet to the students and ask them if they know what they are talking about. 

2.   The teacher will then go onto showing the instructional video on how they are going to do the activity.

3.    After that the para educators will help them log onto the computer and get the game up and running. 

4.   The students will then go onto tracing the letters; working their way from A-Z. They will have the whole class time to make it through the game. The game has audio they can follow along with. When the game says what letter it is, they will then repeat it back to the paraeducator. If they are nonverbal the Para educator will repeat it and the student will give them a signal for yes or no. 

5.   The teacher will walk around guiding the Para educators on how to evaluate the students and help the students if they need further help other than the help they are receiving.

6.    If the student is unable to use their hands they can give a voice guided instruction to the paraeducator on where to go with the line and what letter they are doing. 

7.   The students are able to take breaks if it becomes too overstimulating but should shortly come back to the exercise. 

**There will be no homework to take home but the parents will be emailed telling them that they were working on tracing the alphabet if they wanted to help them one-on-one at home.**

Evaluation: The Para educators will have a sheet that have all the letters listed out. It will have a column for how many tries they had at the letter and if they completed it correctly. An addition column will be added to mark if the student repeated or agreed that the letter was as shown. One more column will be present to mark down how many breaks the student took, to show if the activity was too stimulating for them and if they need something without audio to it.