LESSON PLAN
Date: ___________________
Left To Right
Reading and Language Arts: 0.0 – 1.9
Standard 1: Demonstrate skills that serve as the foundations for reading.
1. Learning Objective(s):
 Recognize that print material normally flow from left to right, top to bottom,
and front to back.
2. Materials and Resources: Paper, pencil, and tracing paper (if available)
Other Resources: Android or Apple device, sand paper letters or Textured letters
3. Activities
Warm-up & Review
 Review flash cards from Environmental Print lesson.
Introduction
 Help students understand how print flows. Ask the learner to guide his or her
finger from left to right on the table, followed by a piece of blank paper,
followed by the page of a book.
 Use activities to practice letter tracing, and reading from left to right.
Activities and Practice
A. Trace Your Name and Personal Information
 Ask the student to trace his/her name or address. You can use tracing paper or
other creative ways like an iPhone app or light white paper. Be sure to model
first.
 Give him/her instructions about where to begin and the direction of the strokes.
 This can also be done letter by letter as the student is tracing his/her name if
he/she needs assistance.
B. Left to Right Progression Charts
 Create a left to right progression chart (example below).
 Make each chart by writing simple, repetitive sentences. The sentences are
made by drawing very simple pictures in place of some words. Below the first
word of each sentence, draw a green dot, and below the period at the end of
the sentence, draw a red dot. The green dot shows the student where we start
when we read the sentence, and the red dot shows them where to stop. The
black dotted line between the two dots is the “road” the student follows as they
“read."
 Read the sentences along with the student asking them to use their finger and
follow the dots as they read.
 Discuss where they begin and end.
Example Chart:
C. Letter Identification By Touch
 Choose five letters to review.
 Ask the student to study the letter.
 Ask the student to close his or her eyes and identify the letter by touch.
4. Wrap Up and Feedback:
 Write more sentences (without the lines & dots), and then read the sentences.
 For each sentence incorporate words and pictures from the previous lesson.
 Ask student to read each sentence out load once again using his/her finger to
trace the reading direction.
 Ask student to re-write sentence. For words that are difficult for the student, ask
the student to trace each letter in the word with his/her finger on table.
(Other: Back-up Plan/Activities)
Tracing Letters App