Learning Plans and Mastery Checks
Let’s Play Learn-Premium: Early Childhood and Intervention
The lesson plan design is a differentiated instructional approach with a structured sequential daily plan format for whole group and small group instruction to deliver multisensory practice cementing learning into long-term memory. Let’s Play Learn- Premium can be used in any Preschool or Kindergarten setting. The Let’s Play Learn-Premium is available in two versions: Let’s Play Learn- Premium and Let’s Play Learn-Premium Classroom. Both versions utilize the same Learning Plan Book but the Classroom version has a second Learning Plan Book and additional materials for a second instructor to use in the Workstations.
The Let’s Play Learn-Premium Learning Plan book is 253 pages. Needed materials are underlined throughout the level for easy reference. There are 112 levels. The levels are systematic and build on each other. Included in the Learning Plan book is a section on building plans which reviews the process of building additional manipulative items and games for the lesson plans, definitions and descriptions, suggested classroom organization and suggestions for how to use the lessons for individual instruction.
Each level begins with Whole Group Time which the instructor is always reviewing material the whole group knows. The whole group instruction can be distributed throughout the day. Included in each level is a Teacher Workstation instruction. This station is where new material is introduced. Length of instruction will depend on the age, group size and attention span of the children but typically would last 10 minutes. During this same time an instructor could have students in Student Workstation activities working on independent practice at another station. Activities are categorized by monitored, paired or individual activities. 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.
Let’s Play Learn- Premium is written by developmental levels. Each level contains material for one day’s lesson and the teacher has flexibility in dividing instruction throughout the day and grouping students in multiple workstations. Depending on the size of the class, age of the students and attention spans students or groups of students in theory students maybe in different levels for the Teacher Workstations and Student Workstations, but the whole class must know all the skills found in the Whole Group Time before the review instruction is given.
Mastery Checks are given at levels: 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 80 and 112. The Mastery Checks will aid the instructor to determine if the instructor is able to move ahead, continue instruction at current level, return to earlier level, restructure groups and make other RTI instructional decisions. Mastery Checks should be given to each student or a group of students on the same skill level. For children or groups needing to return to previous levels suggestions are provided.
It is recommended to give instruction every day, if possible. Instructors may choose to break up instruction throughout the day. Let’s Play Learn-Premium moves at the student or group of students pace but organized in more of a daily lesson plan format. 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. For example, a full-day Kindergarten class may finish Let’s Play Learn-Premium in six to seven months, while a class of three year olds would only cover one level per week, so instruction would take more than one academic year. After the students finish Let’s Play Learn-Premium 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. You always want to catch the teachable moment!
- Review Samples of Let’s Play Learn-Premium Lesson Plan and Mastery Checks
- Review Let’s Play Learn-Premium Sample Lesson Plan Packet (Doc coming soon)
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