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TRANSPORTATION THEMATIC UNIT

TRANSPORTATION THEMATIC UNIT

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Engage learners with hands-on activities about transportation. Your little ones will enjoy the engaging, higher level activities.

 

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Rev up your classroom with this exciting Transportation Thematic Bundle, designed for Pre-K and Kindergarten students! This all-inclusive bundle is packed with lesson plans, engaging literacy centers, and interactive math centers—all centered around the fun and fascinating world of transportation. Perfect for sparking curiosity, this bundle offers hands-on activities to help young learners develop key skills while exploring the different types of transportation, from cars to planes to boats and more!

 

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Lesson Resources

Week 21 Plans
This is a template for lesson plans during transportation week of school. Pick and choose what ideas and resources work for your learners.

Transportation – Whole Group
These resources can be used during whole group instruction for a transportation theme. They include a poem, word cards, tracing page and table sign in sheets.

Interactive Poem
Use this poem during a thematic lesson, whole group or a literacy center and have learners match the poem based the color words.

Lesson Plans

Thematic Plans
Use these plans as a guide for engaging transportation read alouds and activities in the classroom.

Transportation
Read Transportation in My Neighborhood and add to the Community Map created from the community helpers unit. Learners may add methods of transportation to the map.

Traffic Signs
Read Signs in My Neighborhood and have learners add signs to the Community Map.

Cars
Read Cars by Anne Rockwell and complete the cars portion of the anchor chart. Learners may begin the transportation booklet.

Planes
Read Planes by Anne Rockwell and complete the planes portion of the anchor chart. Learners may continue the transportation booklet.

Boats
Read Boats by Anne Rockwell and complete the boats portion of the anchor chart. Learners may continue the transportation booklet.

Transportation Sensory Charts
Explore travel with the five senses. Complete the charts together and have learners draw and write about travel using their senses on the interactive page.

Predictable Chart Class Book
Use this resource to create a class book from the predictable chart created during the week.

Literacy Centers

Literacy Center | Alphabet Match
Have learners match the uppercase, lowercase and initial sound pictures on the traffic light.

Literacy Center | Letter Formation
Have learners use play dough or manipulatives to form each letter and write the letters using markers.

Literacy Center | CVC Words Write the Room
Have learners find the picture cards around the room and write each word on the work page provided.

Math Centers

Math Center | Number Sort
Have learners match the number cards onto the pocket chart.

Math Center | Number Order
Have learners count up and count down using the number cards.

Math Center | Pattern or Not
Have learners sort the pattern cards by whether or not they are a repeating pattern.

Transportation Sorting Center
Have learners sort the cards by how they travel.

 

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Common Core

L.K.1a- print many upper- and lowercase letters
RF.K.1c- understand that words are separated by spaces in print
RF.K.1d- recognize and name all upper- and lowercase letters of the alphabet
RF.K.2d- isolate and pronounce the initial, medial vowel, and final sounds (phonemes) in three-phoneme (consonant-vowel-consonant, or CVC) words. (This does not include CVCs ending with /l/, /r/, or /x/.)
RF.K.3- know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words
RF.K.3a- demonstrate basic knowledge of one-to-one letter-sound correspondences by producing the primary sound or many of the most frequent sounds for each consonant
RF.K.3b- associate the long and short sounds with common spellings (graphemes) for the five major vowels
RI.K.7- with prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the text in which they appear (e.g., what person, place, thing, or idea in the text an illustration depicts)
SL.K.4- describe familiar people, places, things, and events and, with prompting and support, provide additional detail
SL.K.5- add drawings or other visual displays to descriptions as desired to provide additional detail
W.K.2- use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose informative/explanatory texts in which they name what they are writing about and supply some information about the topic
K.CC.A.2- count forward beginning from a given number within the known sequence (instead of having to begin at 1)
K.CC.A.3- write numbers from 0 to 20. Represent a number of objects with a written numeral 0-20 (with 0 representing a count of no objects)
K.CC.B.4- understand the relationship between numbers and quantities; connect counting to cardinality
K.CC.B.4a- when counting objects, say the number names in the standard order, pairing each object with one and only one number name and each number name with one and only one object
K.CC.B.4b- understand that the last number name said tells the number of objects counted. The number of objects is the same regardless of their arrangement or the order in which they were counted
K.CC.B.4c- understand that each successive number name refers to a quantity that is one larger
K.CC.B.5- count to answer “how many?” questions about as many as 20 things arranged in a line, a rectangular array, or a circle, or as many as 10 things in a scattered configuration; given a number from 1-20, count out that many objects

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills

LA.K.2.A.iii- demonstrate phonological awareness by: identifying the individual words in a spoken sentence
LA.K.2.A.viii- demonstrate phonological awareness by: blending spoken phonemes to form one-syllable words
LA.K.2.A.x- demonstrate phonological awareness by: segmenting spoken one-syllable words into individual phonemes
LA.K.2.C.i- demonstrate and apply spelling knowledge by: spelling words with VC, CVC, and CCVC
LA.K.2.D.iii- demonstrate print awareness by: recognizing that sentences are comprised of words separated by spaces and recognizing word boundaries
LA.K.2.D.v- demonstrate print awareness by: identifying all uppercase and lowercase letters
LA.K.2.E- develop handwriting by accurately forming all uppercase and lowercase letters using appropriate directionality
LA.K.5.B- generate questions about text before, during, and after reading to deepen understanding and gain information with adult assistance
LA.K.5.E- make connections to personal experiences, ideas in other texts, and society with adult assistance
LA.K.5.H- synthesize information to create new understanding with adult assistance
LA.K.5.I- monitor comprehension and make adjustments such as re-reading, using background knowledge, checking for visual cues, and asking questions when understanding breaks down with adult assistance
LA.K.6.F- respond using newly acquired vocabulary as appropriate
LA.K.8.D.i- recognize characteristics and structures of informational text, including: the central idea and supporting evidence with adult assistance
MA.K.2.A- count forward and backward to at least 20 with and without objects
MA.K.2.B- read, write, and represent whole numbers from 0 to at least 20 with and without objects or pictures
MA.K.2.C- count a set of objects up to at least 20 and demonstrate that the last number said tells the number of objects in the set regardless of their arrangement or order
MA.K.2.D- recognize instantly the quantity of a small group of objects in organized and random arrangements
MA.K.2.E- generate a set using concrete and pictorial models that represents a number that is more than, less than, and equal to a given number up to 20
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