Lesson Plan
Turn Your Name Into Art
This lesson has it all! Uppercase and lowercase letters, reading and writing names, and best of all... art! This lesson will encourage your students to practice writing skills as they practice using capital letters when writing names.
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Learning Objectives
Students will be able use capital letters at the beginning of a name.
Introduction
(5 minutes)- Display an alphabet chart or point to letters of the alphabet displayed in your classroom.
- Ask students if they know what the two different kinds of letters are called. Allow for a few students to respond with ideas.
- Say, “That’s right! We call some letters lowercase and some uppercase or capital letters. Sometimes we call the capital letters the “big” letters.” Point to a capital letter A and say, “This is the capital letter A. We use it at the beginning of a sentence and also as the first letter in a name.”
- Demonstrate writing your name or a student name on the board, point to the first letter and say, “I used the capital letter [blank] to begin writing this name. What do you notice about the rest of the letters in the name? Right, the rest of the letters are lowercase. We use the capital or uppercase letter for the first letter in a name.”
- Explain that today you will be practicing your handwriting skills as you make a name tag using a capital letter for the first letter in your name.