Preschool: Reading with Young Children

Tasks, O-E Questions, & Time Estimates

Prompt: What ways can teachers adapt their lessons to fit the needs of a student with a learning disability? How can you do this in our preschool?

-Relevance: Preschool 2 students are doing a presentation on Learning Disabilities.

1. Check in with Preschool 3 projects- each student is working independently throughout the semester on a project that is due at the end of the semester.

-10 minutes

Learning Disabilities

1. Presentation on Learning Disabilities for Preschool 2 students→ sit on the carpet and have presenters holding the laptop and presenting.

1. Preschool 3 students will be working on a scenario where they have to adapt various lessons for students with disabilities. They can work on this together at one table. The scenarios relate to what they know about learning disabilities and adaptations in the classroom.

*Preschool 2 and 3 students will be working on these tasks simultaneously. Once the presentation is done, we will reconvene and start on a project all together.
-20 minutes

Cross-Curricular Project

1. Project with Mrs. Kirby’s class about reading to preschool students. Give students handout with explanation and read through it→ creating a resources for Mrs. Kirby’s Written and Oral Communications 1 class about reading to preschool aged children.

Question: What do you think cross-curricular means?

1. Review reading to preschoolers with infographic→ this will refresh what students learned in Preschool 1
2. Students will each write one tip on the board about reading to young children. Then we will go over them as a class and discuss them. After the discussion we will choose what we want to be our top five rules to share with Mrs. Kirby’s class.
3. Break students into 5 groups and assign them a rule→ each group will make a video about each rule with an example. They must say why it is important to follow the rule.

-45 minutes

Example Reading

1. Each group will choose a book and record a member reading it following all of the rules. This will be a resource of how to read a book to young children for the Written and Oral Communications 1 class.

-14 minutes

Closure

1. 3rd block will be working on the other aspects of the project (making the handouts and looking through our books). Next week, we will focus on putting it all together and publishing it in an eBook format for Mrs. Kirby’s class.
   -1 minute

Assessment:

1. Students came up with 5 rules for reading to preschoolers in the third activity.

iPads for each group, props for videos

Learning Disability → break up the information into chunks for the student; provide a guided copy of the article.