Unique Teach® is the complete program for success.
Part One consists of techniques and methods for teaching young learners, covering the following key areas:
- Teaching in concrete ways by using hands-on materials, children’s experiences, body and movement, and storybooks
- Enhancing learning by using context effectively
- Correctly sequencing the steps of any lesson
- Modifying instructional language for young children
- Making direct connections between oral language, reading, and writing, for enhanced understanding
- Teaching oral language through retelling
- Teaching letter names and sounds by using alphabet chart pictures
- Interpreting children’s invented spellings
- Teaching children to read and write words phonetically, with minimal memorization
- Teaching children to decode words efficiently
- Teaching sight words by using cognitive strategies instead of memorization
- Conducting a read-aloud and developing comprehension
- Teaching children to put spaces between words when writing
- Teaching suffix usage and correcting common errors
- Teaching drawing by following the natural stages of children’s drawing development
- Teaching letter formation (handwriting)
- Finding ways to reach struggling students
- Modifying the conventional calendar lesson for young children
- Managing workstations effectively
- Arranging the classroom for young learners
Part Two consists of model literacy and math lessons that apply the techniques in Part One. The lessons are presented in an illustrated, user-friendly, step-by-step format. Workstation ideas for each lesson are also provided.
Literacy lessons include:
- Retelling
- Letter Names and Sounds
- Reading Lesson
- Writing Lesson
- Reading and Writing Lesson for Advanced Learners
- Concepts of Print (Parts of the Book, Directionality, Identifying a Letter/Word)
- Letter Formation (Handwriting)
- Read Alouds
- Rhyming Words
- Songs and Rhymes
Math lessons include:
- Shapes
- Colors
- Sorting by Color, Shape, or Size
- Patterns
- Numbers 1-10 (Oral Counting, Numeral Recognition, Quantity, and One-to-One Correspondence)
- Calendar