I. Curricular Framework

Concept:

Attributes

Essential Question:

How does color help us identify objects?

Bridge:

Graphing Colors

Content:

Color Vocabulary

Outcomes:

II. Standards Aligned

III. Instruction and Assessment

1. Connect: Connecting to the Concept Experientially

Objective: To see a video about colors.

Activity: Show the video WE SING IN SILLYVILLE.

Assessment: Did the children get involved in the video?

2. Attend: Attending to the Connection

Objective: To connect the children's feelings about colors.

Activity: Discuss colors and what meaning they have for us. What would it be like if we only had black and white? Why do we want colors?

Assessment: Did they freely participate in the discussion?

Assessment, Phase One, Level of Engagement, Fascination:

3. Image: Creating a Mental Picture

Objective: To make a graph of their favorite colors.

Activity: Graphing Favorite Colors (emphasize the color words). Make a simple color graph on a large sheet of bulletin board paper. Cut out small squares from construction paper that matches the colors named on the chart. Have each student come up and paste a square of his or her favorite color on the chart. When the chart is complete, discuss the results: Which color is the most popular? Which color is the least popular? Which color(s) is not liked by anyone? How many people like each of the colors? How many more people like _____ than _____? How many people are represented on the chart? Does it match the number of people in the room? If the numbers do not match, why do you think this is so?

Assessment: Can they answer the questions?

Assessment, Phase Two, Seeing the Big Picture:

4. Inform: Receiving Facts & Knowledge

Objective: To learn the color words.

Activity: Teacher teaches the color words using the words from the graph. The teacher using the color words from graph explains decoding of the words: beginning sounds, ending sounds, configuration of words, shape of words and number of letters.

Assessment: Are the children into the lecture?

Assessment, Phase Three, Success with Acquiring Knowledge:

5. Practice: Developing Skills

Objective: To demonstrate their knowledge of color words.

Activity: Using a worksheet I KNOW COLOR WORDS, color the page by themselves. This page would have outline shapes of crayons with the words written below or on them. The children using the decoding skills that were taught in 2L to decide what colors to use.

Assessment: Is the worksheet completed correctly?

Assessment, Phase Four, Success with Acquiring Skills:

6. Extend: Extending Learning to the Outside World

Objective: To write a sentence about favorite color.

Activity: Have the students write a sentence or two on a crayon shaped sentence strip. They could describe their favorite color and give their reasons for choosing that color. They can then decorate their sentence strip with a border design in their favorite color.

Assessment: Did they write (or for younger ones dictate) a sentence and decorate their sentence strip?

7. Refine: Refining the Extension

Objective: To combine the children's sentence strips on a chart or in a book.

Activity: Children complete sentence strips and decorating. Then they can be put on a chart together or into a book to be shared.

Assessment: Did everyone complete a page?

8. Perform: Creative Manifestation of Material Learned

Objective: To share their work with others.

Activity: Have each child share his/her sentence strip with the class.

Assessment: Did they all have a turn to share?

Assessment, Phase Five,Performance, Creative Use of Material Learned: