words

Literacy
Goodnight Moon

Osmo

Grades

K

Environment

Individual station, Groups of 2-3, or whole class using projector

Materials

Osmo base + Osmo Words app + Letter tiles + iPad 2 or higher + “Goodnight Moon” by Margaret Wise Brown

Objective

Using the framework of Common Core, students will learn new concepts from classic children’s books.

CCSS RL.K.7, CCSS RL.K.3.A, CCSS RL.K.3.B, CCSS L.K.2.D

Difficulty Level

Easy: 1-3 consonants missing

Medium: Entire word for regular spelling, 1 syllable words

Hard: Entire word for irregular spelling, 2+ syllable words

Very Hard: None

Activity

Part 1 – Before the Lesson

    1. Go to my.playosmo.com/words

on the iPad

  1. Create an account.
  2. Enter link in the url bar: my.playosmo.com/words/public/album/1f39aymhkhs
  3. Click ‘Download to iPad’
  4. Congrats! Now you have the album available in your Osmo Words Library.

If you are using multiple iPads, go to my.playosmo.com/words on each iPad, log in, and download the album.

Part 2 – After reading “Goodnight Moon” aloud

  1. Open the Osmo Words app and click on ‘Library’
  2. Deselect all other albums and select only ‘Goodnight Moon’
  3. Hit ‘Play’
  4. Students guess and match the correct letters for keywords in the book.
  5. If additional copies of the book are available, give a book to each group or student so that they may refer back to the book when they get stuck.