Grade-Level ODE Model lesson Plans
READING/WRITING

Pre-Kindergarten

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Using Pictures to Promote Conversation — Pre-Kindergarten Attachment 1 Grade: Pre-Kindergarten  Type: ODE Model Lesson Plans Description: Students will initiate and sustain a conversation of three or more exchanges on a topic while exploring a collection of large photographs pertaining to that topic. The teacher will create a comfortable setting and provide a variety of books and/or a collection of mounted photographs to enjoy and talk about in a climate of verbal explorations.  Ohio Standards Connection: Primary Standards, Benchmarks, and Indicators: Standard:  Communications: Oral and Visual   Benchmark: A.  Use active listening strategies to identify the main idea and to gain information from oral presentations.   Indicator: 1.  Attend to speakers, stories, poems and songs.   Benchmark: B.  Connect prior experiences, insights and ideas to those of a speaker.   Indicator: I 2.  Connect information and events to personal experiences by sharing or commenting.   Benchmark: D.  Speak clearly and at an appropriate pace and volume.   Indicator: 4.  Speak clearly and understandably to express ideas, feelings and needs.   Indicator: 5.  Initiate and sustain a conversation through turn taking. Secondary Standards, Benchmarks and Indicators: Standard:  Acquisition of Vocabulary  Benchmark  A.  Use context clues to determine the meaning of new vocabulary.  Indicator: 1.  Understand the meaning of new words from the context of conversations, the use of pictures that accompany text or the use of concrete objects.  Standard:  Reading Applications: Informational, Technical and Persuasive Text  Benchmark  A.  Use text features and structures to organize content, draw conclusions and build text knowledge.  Indicator: 1.  Use pictures and illustrations to aid comprehension.  Benchmark  D.  Use visual aids as sources to gain additional information from text.  Indicator: 4.  Gain text information from pictures, photos, simple charts and labels.

Word Meaning Through Conversation and Picture Clues — Pre-Kindergarten Grade: Pre-Kindergarten  Type: ODE Model Lesson Plans Description: Children will identify the words that express feelings in the context of stories and/or the use of pictures as a reference to demonstrate their understanding of word meanings. In addition, children will increase their vocabulary around emotion-words synonymous with basic feelings by deciphering their meaning in the context of stories.  Ohio Standards Connection: Primary Standards, Benchmarks, and Indicators: Standard:  Acquisition of Vocabulary   Benchmark: A.  Use context clues to determine the meaning of new vocabulary.   Indicator: 1.  Understand the meaning of new words from the context of conversations, the use of pictures that accompany text or the use of concrete objects.  Secondary Standards, Benchmarks and Indicators: Standard:  Reading Process: Concepts of Print, Comprehension Strategies and Self-Monitoring Strategies  Benchmark  A.  Establish a purpose for reading and use a range of reading comprehension strategies to understand literary passages and text.   Indicator: 3.  Begin to distinguish print from pictures. These designated indicators call for demonstration of a task or skill that readily lends itself to teacher observation.  Standard:  Communications: Oral and Visual  Benchmark  A.  Use active listening strategies to identify the main idea and to gain information from oral presentations.  Indicator: 1.  Attend to speakers, stories, poems and songs.   Benchmark  B.  Connect prior experiences, insights and ideas to those of a speaker.  Indicator: 2.  Connect information and events to personal experiences by sharing or commenting.   Benchmark  D.  Speak clearly and at an appropriate pace and volume.  Indicator: 4.  Speak clearly and understandably to express ideas, feelings and needs.

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