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Resources for all things Teachers!

My Simple Show	My Simple Show is a website that allows teachers to easily make fun, interactive slideshows to help assist lessons in the classroom! Teachers: You can get your message across in a simple, yet engaging way!
Class Hook	Class Hook allows teachers to find multiple educational videos and movies in one spot, rather than searching the web for approved and appropriate videos for educational reasons! This website allows for easy access to all things educational videos.
Edhelper	Edhelper is a great website for any first grade teachers! The link will send you to the first grade page, but any grade level can be chosen on the website's homepage. This website is a great resource to find printable PDF worksheets. There are worksheets and activity sheets for a variety of subjects such as math, reading, grammar, spelling, and even fun puzzles for activity sheets!
Laura Candler	Laura Candler is a great resource for new teachers! The link sends you to her first grade resource page. Here you can find many lesson plans, worksheets, seasonal activity ideas, and classroom management ideas! This website is very beneficial for new teachers and has great classroom management ideas/ activity ideas!
The Teachers Corner	The Teachers Corner is another great website full of different lesson plan ideas, printable worksheets, teacher tips, and classroom management ideas. Teachers can find all things needed for fun activities, monthly activity ideas, and fun bulletin board ideas for a creative classroom environment!
iPads for Teaching	As our classrooms become more and more encompassed by technology, this website supports iPad use in the classroom. Here you can find useful iPad apps for teaching such as rubric apps, evaluation guides, how to manage a set of classroom iPads, and much more!
We Are Teachers	This final link is one we think all new teachers should take a look at! It provides valuable tips and experiences from current or past teachers. This website/blog provides tips on some teachers mistakes that they warn and try to inform future/current teachers of. This website also proves free printable worksheets and activities and ideas on how to set up your classroom (classroom management)!

Below is an example of a lesson plan on syllables! This lesson plan can be a great example on how to incorporate technology into lessons in your classroom. This lesson plan even uses a student link/website called IXL. It is a great resource for all things practice in first grade.

Lesson Plan

Unit Topic: Language Arts

Grade: First Grade

Lesson Topic: Syllables

Lesson Objectives:

The student will be able to identify the number of syllables in a given word.

The student will be able to recognize how many sounds/beats make up a word.

The student will be able to recognize which words are shorter and which words are longer based on the number of syllables they have.

Instructional Materials:

Projector and computer for teacher.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9S7DY2lgJlU

iPad or computer access for entire class (online activity)

Class set of headphones (for each student)

https://www.ixl.com/ela/grade-1/how-many-syllables-does-the-word-have

“Online syllable practice” handout paper

“Exit Slip: Discovering Syllables in Name” paper

A. Introductory Activity

(Procedure)

First, the teacher will introduce the lesson topic of syllables. The teacher will ask a question similar to, “Does anyone know what syllable is?” or “Has anyone ever heard of the word syllable?” in order to identify if any background knowledge is present.

Then, the teacher will explain what a syllable is (how many beats are in a word). The teacher will encourage the students’ background knowledge while attempting to incorporate it into the class discussion.

Now, the teacher will play the introductory video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9S7DY2lgJlU).

Once the video is over, the teacher will ask again, “What do you think a syllable is now, in your own words?”

The teacher will help guide this conversation, again. The teacher will now use a sample word “pencil.” The teacher will write this word on the board and state, “Now repeat the word after me.” The class and teacher will say “pencil” in unison at a normal pace. Then, the teacher will model how to say the word slower, emphasizing the 2 beats that make up the word “pen-cil.”

Finally, the teacher will ask the class to clap the word all together to figure out how many syllables the word “pencil” has. The teacher will model the clapping method first and then ask the class to clap with him/her.

B. Online Syllable Activity

(Procedure)

The teacher will now hand each student their iPads (the teacher will have already bookmarked the website for syllable activity on the iPads).

The teacher will tell the students to open their iPads and the syllable activity should already be up and ready.

If the activity is not up, the teacher will ask the students to raise their hand if there is not a website open and the teacher will fix this.

The teacher will do a quick walk around and make sure the correct website is open on each students’ iPad. While doing so, the teacher will say “Please take your headphones out of your desks and plug them into your iPads”

Once the students do so, the teacher will give the next direction. The students will have only plugged in their headphones (not yet putting them on). The teacher will say, “Now you are going to try and answer 10 questions on the website. There will be a speaker icon and you need to click on this button to hear the spoken word of the picture shown to you. You are also going to use the handout I am about to give you.” Teacher will now hand out the Online Syllable Practice handout.

The teacher will state, “On the handout you will see three columns. In the first column you need to write the word of the picture shown. Try your best to figure it out, if you are really stuck raise your hand! In the second column you will write how many syllables the word has and if you got the correct number of syllables on your first try. If you did get it on your first try please draw a checkmark in the third column. If you did not get it on your first try put an “X.”

The teacher will explain, “If you did not get it right on your first try, you are to scroll down and write the spelling of the word, the number of syllables, and an “X” in the third column.”

Once the students have completed the 10 problems on the chart, the students will raise their hands to turn in the handout to the teacher.

The teacher will state, “If you are waiting for your peers to finish you can keep trying the syllable game on your own!”

C. Closure

(Procedure)

Once all the students have completed the Online Syllable Practice activity paired with the interactive website and have handed it in, the teacher will ask the student’s to make a circle on the rug.

Once everyone is collected together, the teacher will begin to review the lesson’s objectives; syllables. The teacher will ask students a question similar to “In your own words, can someone tell me what a syllable is now?”

The teacher will continue the discussion by asking students if they feel ready to test their new knowledge on their own names.

The teacher will first provide an example with his/her own name with the class. The teacher will state his/her name and then repeat it slowly, pausing at each syllable.

Now the teacher will ask students to repeat his/her (teacher’s) name along with him/her while clapping at each pause/syllable.

The teacher will ask “How many claps did we hear? How many syllables are in my name?”

The teacher will then hand out the exit slip for this lesson to each student prior to explaining their task.

The teacher will then provide instructions by stating something similar to “Now each of you is going to clap out and count the syllables in your own name! Once you think you have successfully done so write down your name and how many syllables are in it on the exit slip.”

Once the teacher notices the class is finished with this handout, the teacher will go around the circle and have each student clap out their own name and share how many syllables it has.

If the teacher sees a student has not successfully done so, or is struggling, then the teacher will guide the student in clapping the correct syllables in order to prompt the student to fix their mistake.

Note: The teacher will collect oral data during this class activity/discussion.

Evaluation:

The student will be able to identify the number of syllables in a given word.

In order to document successful completion for this objective the teacher will have collected the Online Syllable Practice and see which words with the amount of syllables are correct. This handout will assist the teacher in planning a further lesson with syllables (whether the teacher needs to reinforce the idea of single or double syllable words or if the teacher can move on to multisyllabic words).

The student will be able to recognize how many sounds/beats make up a word.

In order to document successful completion for this objective the teacher will collect the Exit Slip at the end of the lesson and evaluate the success to which each student was able to identify how many syllables their own names have.

The student will be able to recognize which words are shorter and which words are longer based on the number of syllables they have.

In order to document successful completion for this objective the teacher will collect oral data during the ending discussion on the rug. The teacher leading the discussion of whose name has the most syllables and whose has the least syllables will help them collect data on the confidence and success the students have as a class with this objective.