Alphabetizing With Original Stories

Materials and Technology

Student Interactives

Printouts

Preparation

 

MATERIALS AND TECHNOLOGY

• Appropriate writing instruments
  
  
• Illustration materials (e.g., crayons, markers, scissors, glue, collage materials)
  
  
• Legal-sized paper or half-sheets of poster board (max. of 13 per student/group)
  
  
• Sentence strips or strips of cardstock measuring approx. 2"x11" (max. of 26 strips per student/group)
  
  
• Student computers with Internet access and print capability

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STUDENT INTERACTIVES

Grades   K – 12  |  Student Interactive  |  Organizing & Summarizing

Alphabet Organizer

Students can use this online tool to print an alphabet chart or pages for an alphabet book.

 

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PRINTOUTS

• Student Grid Assessment
  
  
• Alphabetical Story Review
  
  
• Alphabetical Stories Rubric

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PREPARATION

Note: Students should already be familiar with alphabetical order prior to this lesson. This lesson offers continued practice with the concept.

1.	This lesson provides leveled instruction in alphabetization for basic, intermediate, and advanced students. Decide which students will complete the different tasks based on their ability levels. For the purposes of this lesson, ability levels are defined as follows: Basic: Knows the alphabet, but has difficulty placing objects in alphabetical order and composing sentences independently Intermediate: Somewhat familiar with alphabetical order, but needs practice composing sentences Advanced: Familiar with alphabetical order and sentence composition; needs to be challenged before obtaining mastery of alphabetical order Basic-level students should work as a group, while intermediate and advanced students can work individually.
2.	Decide how many sentence strips or book pages each student or group of students will need, as well as the size of the alphabet book pages (either legal-size paper or half-poster size). Gather all other materials from the Resources section as needed.
3.	Bookmark the Alphabet Organizer on your classroom computers. (If you experience difficulty, make sure that computers have the most recent version of the Flash plug-in, which can be downloaded for free from the ReadWriteThink Site Tools page.)

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