COME ALONG, FOR AN EARLY INTERVENTION INTERACTIVE

ADVENTURE.

C R E A T E D B Y: M I S S N I C O L EN Y C D E P T. O F H E A L T HA N D M E N T A L H Y G I E N E

“Fruit-Tastic”: Read, Sing, and Play Food!

For Students:

Let’s learn about fruit! What is fruit?Fruit is the part of a plant that has seeds

and flesh. Most fruits that people eat are sweet.

We will learn about 5 fruits today!

Use your voice and your hands to count with me.

The 5 fruits we will learn about are:

ApplesPearsPlumsStrawberriesOranges

It’s Story Time!

Click on the fruit basket to hear a story about an insect who eats our 5 fruits.

What happened?

The caterpillar ate all 5 of our fruits!

Can you name them?

What is your favorite fruit?

Click on the crayons.We will find your favorite fruit to color. When you’re all done, we will email your artwork to your family!

We can have fun with fruit!

Click on the fruit to sing with me.

More fun with fruit:

Let’s use our toy foods and cooking utensils to make a healthy fruit dessert!

For Teachers:

The following slides include an overview of the lesson:Learner GroupGoalsObjectivesStandardsAssessmentResource Links

Learner Group:

The student population is birth to age three, identified as having developmental delays. With visual and auditory supports provided through the viewing of a video and listening to a sing-a-long, the teacher will create interactive learning experiences for the child to associate with play objects, such as food toys. The primary goal is to support the development of cooperative play skills. By incorporating English language arts and literacy, approaches to communication, cognition and knowledge of the world, and approaches to learning, the teacher will be simultaneously targeting the above listed instructional standards.

Goals:

This lesson must be personalized in order to effectively target each student’s documented Individualized Family Service Plan goals.

Objectives:

1. The student will identify and label 5 fruits (apples, pears, plums, strawberries, and oranges) as requested by the teacher during the interactive storybook video, The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle with 80% accuracy.

2. The student will count to 5 by counting the 5 fruits presented during the interactive storybook video with 80% accuracy.

3. The student will model and label the verb “eat” during the reading, the sing-a-long, and cooperative play activity in 8 out of 10 trials.

4. The student will verbalize 4 of the 5 target words “apples,” “pears,” “plums,” “strawberries,” and “oranges” when asked, “What is this?”

5. The student will engage in cooperative play by moving play objects (foods) appropriately and using two word verbalizations, such as, “eat (fruit)” to demonstrate communicative intent independently on 3 occasions.

Standards:

New York State Pre-Kindergarten Learning Standards:Identifies pictures related to words. Counts to tell the number of objects. Identifies meanings of words used in read-alouds,

in conversation and in descriptions of everyday items in the world around him.

Interacts with a variety of common types of texts (e.g., storybooks, poems, songs).

Names picture when asked, “What is this?” Interacts with a variety of materials through play.

Assessment:

Take a student language sample during the cooperative play activity. The language sample may be taken in the form of a written list, an audio recording, or a video recording. Ideally, a language sample is comprised of at least 200 utterances. The language sample will be analyzed to identify the student’s mean length of spontaneous speech utterances. Additionally, a structural analysis will be conducted in order to assess the student’s development of language structures.

Resource Links:

The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle

Fruit Coloring PagesFun with Fruit Sing Along

Thank you for your participation in my presentation. My name is Miss Nicole, and I am a Special Instruction Teacher for the Early Intervention Program in New York City. Check out my blog at http://infantandtoddlerbabble.edublogs.org!

Happy Eating!

Fruit provides health benefits for students and

teachers alike!