Learning Experience Plan

1. Identify Three Early Learning Standards (ELD):
Early Learning Standard #1:
Domain: Language and Literacy
Strand: D: Early learning experiences will support children to gain book appreciation and
knowledge
Learning Progression: Understanding of Stories or Information
Indicator: L.60.14 Use connections between self and character, experience and
emotions to increase comprehension
Early Learning Standard #2:
Domain: Language and Literacy
Strand: B: Early learning experiences will support children to use language (expressive
language).
Learning Progression: Vocabulary
Indicator: L.60.5 Use more complex words learned through books and personal
experiences (e.g., label favorite shirt as chartreuse, or know that a paleontologist
studies dinosaurs)
Early Learning Standard #3:
Domain: Creative Arts
Strand A: Early learning experiences will support children to engage in and enjoy the arts
Learning Progression: Visual Arts
Indicator: CA.60.5. Use a variety of tools and materials to represent ideas through the visual
arts
Connecticut Office of Early Childhood (2014, April). CT ELDS Connecticut
early learning and development standards: What children, birth to 5, should
know and be able to do. Retrieved from:
http://www.ct.gov/oec/lib/oec/earlycare/elds/ctelds.pdf
CHS199 – Practicum I
Sample LEP: Guided Steps 1 – 9
2. Identify Three Key Objectives:
1. The children will listen and respond to a story to learn about sharing.
2. The children will practice new vocabulary.
3. The children will create their own rainbow fish to add to a Friendship Pond.
3. Identify All Materials Needed:
• Book: Pfister, M., & James, J.A. (1992). The rainbow fish. New York, NY: North-SouthBooks
 Multi-colored tissue paper
• Shiny pieces of paper (such as aluminum foil)
• Large paper plates
• Children’sscissors
• Glue sticks
4. Vocabulary (5 words):
• sharing
• starfish
• octopus
• scales
• friends
Part 2 LEP (To be completed in Unit 4)
5. Six Higher Order Thinking (HOT) Questions:
Write six HOT questions about the story to ask to children while you read the
story and at the end of the story. Use the sample questions below to create a
question to correspond with each of the six levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy:
1) Understanding 2) Remembering 3) Applying 4) Analyzing 5) Evaluating and 6)
Creating
Level 1. Remembering
• Rainbow Fish has beautiful scales of many colors. What are
some of the colors of his dazzling scales? Besides Rainbow
Fish, who are some of the other characters in the story?
Where does the story take place?