Learning Plans and Benchmarks
Let’s Play Learn-Basic: Early Childhood and Intervention
The Let’s Play Learn-Basic Learning plans are designed to teach skills to a whole group, make sure those skills are in place, and then the whole group moves on to the next concept. The lesson plan design is flexible so that it can be used in any Preschool or Kindergarten setting. The system uses flexible lessons with explicit directions to deliver multisensory practice cementing learning into long-term memory. Outlined activities provide the instructor with the value of each activity for academic success. For example: reading shapes, colors and numbers involves visual discrimination which aids in developing fluency (Rapid Automatic Naming), and print awareness.
The Let’s Play Learn-Basic Learning Plan book is 137 pages. Needed materials and skills practices are clearly listed at the beginning of each level. There are eight levels. Each level is separated into 8 learning strands: 1. Reading, 2. Alphabet, 3. Listening and Language, 4. Shapes, 5. Colors, 6. Counting/Number Concepts or Mathematics, 7. Pre-writing or Writing and 8. Benchmark (Can We Move On?). For levels seven and eight an additional strand of Converting Symbol to Sound is included before the Benchmark. Every student in the group should make the benchmark before moving onto the next level.
Let’s Play Learn- Basic is written by developmental levels. Each level contains material for multiple lessons, how many exactly depends on the level, instructor and student or group of students. The instructor should plan on lessons for a three year old to be shorter than that of a five year old. The instructor should work with the student or group of students as long as the instructor has their attention. For a young child activities should take two to three minutes each. When working with a group of students usually children take turns responding and listening in that case the activities will take longer.
The easiest activities are the first ones listed on the top of each section. The instructor should always explore what the student or students know. One child might be able to work on more than one activity in a section and another student may only be able to work on one activity per section per lesson. If only one activity per section is manageable, the instructor may choose to move onto the next section and work on the first activity in that section; as long as they are within the same level. On the following days, keep reviewing these activities and add more. Remember not to move onto the next level until the current level is mastered. The instructor will know if all the skills are mastered in a level by utilizing the benchmarks titled Can We Move On, found at the end of each level.
It is recommended to give instruction every day, if possible. Instructors may choose to break up instruction throughout the day. Let’s Play Learn-Basic moves at the student or group of students pace. It is difficult to determine how long it will take to complete the system due to many factors including: age the instructor is working with, size of the group, English language proficiency, and, instructional moments each day and week. You always want to catch the teachable moment! For example, a Kindergarten class who meets every day, they should finish Let’s Play Learn-Basic around the end of the first semester. After the class finishes Let’s Play Learn-Basic they would then be ready for the beginning of Sonday System 1. Keep in mind some children and classes may move more quickly and other maybe more slowly.
Review Samples of Let’s Play Learn-Basic Lesson Plan and Benchmark
Review Let’s Play Learn-Basic Sample Lesson Plan Packet
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