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Jenna Earling
EDUC 3105-091
Literature Development
Professor Cydis

Five Day Shared Reading Plan

“Pajama Pirate”
Book Information:
Book: “Pajama Pirate”
Author: Andrew Kramer
Illustrator: Leslie Lammle
Level: Pre-K- Kindergarten

Introduction
“Pajama Pirate” by Andrew Kramer is the perfect bedtime story for any kindergartner
who wants to be enchanted into a journey filled with pirate ships, sword fighting, treasure
hunting and more! This is one of the eight books from my related literature portion of my pirate
themed website. The characters in the story are about to put their minds to rest for the night as
they find themselves setting sail on an imaginary adventure. On their voyage, they are
encountered by their enemy pirates that they must fight off to proceed to their next destination.
The ship they are traveling on is large and equipped for sword fighting, plank walking, and can
even withstand the raging storm that the children are faced with in the storybook. The make-
believe pirates are able to defeat their angry opponents, calm the seas of the storm, and ease their
imaginations for the night. This book will grasp the attention of any prospering pirates that are
ready to conquer the best bedtime story of all time!
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Concepts of Print/ Alphabet Knowledge

Standard/Indicator: Demonstrate mastery of the organization and basic features of print
including those listed under Kindergarten foundation skills.
Activity to Teach Concepts of Print:
The entire premise of furthering a child’s education is teaching them how to read because
without that skill, every aspect of any activity will ignite an issue. This is the very first stepping
stone to education, especially as emerging readers in kindergarten. Concepts of print focuses on
the manor of reading, such as the understanding of reading from the left to the right and from the
top to the bottom of each page. Students must obtain the knowledge that every proper sentence
must begin with a capital letter and end with a form of punctuation, whether it be a period,
question mark, or exclamation point. All of this will eventually aid students to innately
accomplish reading full sentences without error. For this activity, the students will be learning
how to read words from left to right. An accumulation of different flashcards will each contain a
pirate or ocean themed picture with a correlating sentence with three to five words. The
sentences will contain the learned sight words in order to promote a higher reading success rate
with the sentences provided. Under each word in the sentence is a dot to signify pointing
references to help them distinguish a word from a letter. Students will utilize these flashcards to
strengthen their ability to read and also teach them the manner in which we read.

Standard/Indicator: R.F.K.1.D: Recognize and name all uppercase and lowercase letters of the
alphabet.
Activity to Teach Alphabet Knowledge:
One of the first and most vital things students learn at the kindergarten level is how to
write and sound out all the lower and uppercase letters of the alphabet. Letters form words, and
words form sentences, and sentences allow students to speak fluently. There is also an
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importance in being able understand the differences in uppercase and lowercase letters and
distinguish the uses of each. The activity that the students will be doing to learn alphabet
knowledge requires blue hair gel, ocean-themed gems, and zip-lock bags. Once the students fill
their baggies with the hair gel and gems, they will have a mini ocean at their fingertips which ties
in the setting of the book. The students will bring their projects back to their seats and the teacher
will ask them to trace each letter of the alphabet, one-by-one, onto their bags. This will allow the
lesson to be more tactile and especially grasp the attention of the students who tend to enjoy
more sensory geared activities. This project calls for little clean-up for the teacher and beneficial
kinesthetic engagement for the students. The best way for students to truly grasp the alphabet is
to just do it and practice it as much as possible.

Sight Words
Standard/Indicator: RF.K.3.C: Read high frequency and sight words with automaticity.
Activity to Teach Sight Words:
The recognition of sight words is crucial to any new reader because the moment a student
masters the ability to read sight words, is the same moment that they begin to read words on their
own. The identification of high-frequency words in a text, is a student demonstrating their innate
understanding of sight words. A good activity for this particular standard would be a Sight Word
Plank. The teacher will place a series of sight words on the classroom floor in a formation that
resembles a pirate’s plank. To explain, students will roll a die and will step that many steps on
the plank. As they step on each word on the Sight Word Plank, the students will read aloud each
word they step on until they reach their designated number. If a student fails to recognize a word,
they will be asked to jump off the plank into the imaginary water surrounding the plank. In order
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to keep the students guessing, the teacher will mix up and replace the words to make it less
repetitive.

Phonological/Phonemic Awareness
Standard/Indicator: RF.K.2.A: Recognize and produce rhyming words.
Activity to Teach Phonological Awareness:
A great way to build upon a student’s phonemic awareness is by introducing rhyming.
When a student can grasp and make the connections of rhyming words, they are strengthening
their knowledge of phonemic awareness. An activity that will benefit the learning, while still
keeping the pirate theme would be a Rhyming Word Treasure Box. In this activity, students will
be working in groups of three and will try to map out and differentiate the words into their
rhyming sets. One at a time, students will pull out a laminated word from the treasure box and
will try to match all the words to their corresponding groups of rhymes. For example, if the card
they pull out is “ship,” the students will collaboratively pair the other cards such as clip, hip,
chip, sip, tip, drip, flip, trip, etc. There is a total of 4 different groupings in the treasure box for
this particular activity.

Standard/Indicator: RF.1.2: Demonstrate mastery of spoken words, syllables, and sounds

(phonemes) by using knowledge that every syllable must have a vowel sound to determine the
number of syllables in a printed word.
Activity to Teach Phonemic Awareness:
Phonemes are, essentially, the building blocks of words, therefore, the mastery of
phonemic awareness will lead to proficient readers. Students must be able to recognize that the
individual sounds and syllables in words combine together to form a complete and fluent word.
An activity that students could partake in to enhance their recognition in this topic are syllable
counting cards. Each card will contain an image with an empty 5-frame to serve as place holders
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for the syllables. Some words may include pig, ship, pirate, parrot, ocean, pajamas, nighttime,
etc. For example, if the word at hand was “pirate,” the students would fill 2 of the 5 spaces with
skittles because there are two syllables in “pirate.”

Phonics
Standard/Indicator: RF.K.3: Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in
decoding and encoding words.
Activity to Teach Phonics:
The understanding of phonics is the epitome of word analysis skills. A simple activity
that students can engage in to practice phonics, is a beginning and end word matching game. The
index cards will have pictures of objects and students will be asked what the starting letter of that
word is and what sound that same letter makes. Then, the students will be given different endings
to words and will have to choose which one completes the object’s spelling. For example, if the
card chosen depicted a picture of a boat, the students must be able to recognize that boat starts
with the letter “B” and give the sound of “B”. The students will be instructed to find the ending
of the word from a list of word endings, therefore, they should pick “-oat” to complete the
spelling of the word, “boat”. This activity will benefit a student’s understanding of phonics
because they are forming words by decoding and encoding, while receiving the meaning behind
it.

Analogizing Words
Standard/Indicator: RF.K.3.D: Distinguish between similarity spelled words by identifying the
sounds of the letters that differ (e.g. nap and tap; cat and cot).
Activity to Teach Analogizing Words:
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To become a fluent reader, students must be able to distinguish between the letter sounds
to understand the difference between similarly spelled words. In order to strengthen a student’s
skill to do so, a Twister activity can be implemented in the classroom. On each dot are different
words, each one having a similarly spelled word such as run and bun or fin and fun. There will
be three students participating per round to maintain classroom management. Each round,
students will be asked to put a leg or a hand on the word that the teacher stated, rather than
choosing the similar word on the Twister map. There will be a series of 5 words each round and
the students will switch off with the next three in line. This activity will also be very beneficial to
those students who learn in a kinesthetic manor.