How do live lessons work?
Live lessons are interactive slides and course outlines that are used to teach Treeway Live Classes. Click on the arrows to navigate backward and forwards through the slides.
How Do I Use the Lesson Plans?
Read this lesson plan before class to familiarize yourself with the ideas and concepts you’ll be teaching the students. You may print this page out if you need to use it as a reference point during live classes.
This lesson is a guide, but feel free to expand on the content or decrease/increase what you teach depending on the learning levels of the students in your class or the amount of time you have to cover the material.
Can I show videos in live classes?
Yes, feel free to include additional material to supplement the class lesson material. Videos, Physical Objects, Games, Activities, etc. are okay to share in live classes.
Videos should have no advertisements or logos and should be viewed by you before showing them to the students to ensure no offensive or questionable content is included.
The video should make up only a small portion of the live class.
How do bookmarks work?
Bookmarks help you keep track of lessons you’re going to teach in future live classes. The bookmarks you see are for all your bookmarked lessons across all grades.
You can bookmark a lesson by visiting the lesson you want to bookmark and clicking the “bookmark” button in the bookmark section.
You can remove a single bookmark by visiting a lesson you’ve bookmarked and clicking the “bookmark” button again to unbookmark it.
You can clear all of your bookmarks by clicking the “clear all bookmarks” button. Be careful, this will erase all of your bookmarks.
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Class Summary
Reinforcing the reading/phonics lesson that teaches about the letter. Students should leave the class feeling comfortable with the concept of what the uppercase and lowercase letter look like. They should know what sounds the letter makes. They should also be able to name things that start with the letter.
Lesson Slide
Main Teaching Points
- Draw or Show: objects you’ve prepared that start with the letter A.
- Draw or Show: The Letter A (upper case) for the students to see.
- Draw or Show: The Letter A (lower case) for the students to see.
- Sing or Read: A song or poem with the class that features the letter A and helps them to practice the sounds that the letter A makes.
- Play: Letter A category. Have students take turns naming things that start with the letter A. If players name something that is does not start with the letter A, they are out of the game. Play 5 rounds and then declare the winners. (More than one winner is fine.) Make sure to thank everyone for playing the game with you and clap for all of the students because they did a good job participating. (This will leave everyone feeling like a winner even if they didn’t make it to the final round.)
Discussion Questions
- Who knows what this letter is called?
- Is this uppercase or lowercase A?
- What sounds does this letter make?
- What is your A object for show and tell called? Tell the class about it.
Video Suggestions
In-Class Activities
- Show and Tell: In the class description, instruct parents to help their children bring something to the class that starts with the letter. Call on students who brought an object that starts with the letter. Ask them to tell what the object is and to describe it.