Katherine Mitchell-Miller Deborah Scruggs Dr.
John vonEschenbach
Teacher
Education Candidate Supervising
Teacher UWG Supervisor
November 1, 2005 November 3, 2005
Date
of Submitted Lesson Plan Date
of Implemented Lesson Plan
Block
I_X_, II___, III___, or IV___ Subject:
Reading Grade Level: _K_
- National or Learned
Society Standard(s):
IRA/ NCTE Standard
12. Students use spoken, written, and visual
language to accomplish their own purposes (e.g., for learning, enjoyment,
persuasion, and the exchange of information).
- State of Georgia’s QCCs or GPS:
ELAKW1 The student begins to understand the principles of writing. The student
b. Uses drawings, letters, and phonetically spelled words to create meaning.
3. Specific Objective:
The students in this kindergarten
class will recall the animals mentioned in the story by writing sentences of
what they saw with an accuracy of 4 out of 5.
4. Evaluation
I will
collect the papers and see how well the students wrote their sentences as they
turn them in.
5. Materials
·
Big Red Barn by Margaret Wise Brown
·
Pencil
·
Crayons
·
“Big Red Barn” sheets for writing sentences
6. Procedures
a. Ask the students if they
know what types of animals live in a barn.
b. This lesson will tie to the previous
learning of sight words and inventive spelling.
c. I) Read Big Red Barn
by Margaret Wise Brown to the class.
II) Upon completion of
reading the book I will explain the activity that we are going to do to the
students.
III) After explaining the activity to the students,
they will return to their seats and receive a “Big Red Barn” sheet.
IV) Then the students will
write sentences beginning with three of their sight words (I, a, see) to tell
what animals they saw in the story.
d. To conclude the lesson I
will ask the students to tell me some of the animals that they saw in the
story.
e. Upon completing the lesson
the students will line up and get ready to go to lunch.
f.
The students who are not able to write the sentences will draw pictures
of the animals that were mentioned in the story.
7. Connections
This lesson will connect to can be
connected to inventive spelling and sight words. It can also be tied to studying the different animals that can be found on
a farm and what their purpose
is on the farm.
8. Related independent activities
The students that finish writing
their sentences early will draw and color the animals that they wrote sentences about on their paper.
9. Documentation
The students’ academic achievement
will be tracked through observation and once they are able to do a certain task
successfully that task will be marked off on the checklist that there
is for kindergarten students.
10. Reflection
I feel as though I did a decent job
on this lesson. I believe that things could have been better but it could have
also been a lot worse. Overall, this lesson was effective in the sense that the
students were able to recall some of the animals that were mentioned in the story.
The activity part of this lesson was done in a small group setting as part of
their morning rotations, it is because of this that I feel as though it helped
make the activity go smoother then it would have if the entire class had done
the activity at the same time. I feel this is so because the students are
already separated into groups based on their ability, allowing me to be able to
work with the students on a level of which they can learn and not be too far
above their ability. The main thing that I found that helped make this lesson
effective was the use of differentiated instruction. I did this by having the students
that could not spell the names of the animals phonemically draw a picture of
the animals that they named during the small group activity. The one thing that
I would have changed about teaching this lesson is that I would have asked more
questions while I was reading Big Red Barn to the students and not
waiting until I was done reading the book. I also would ask the students what
they think is going to happen next. By asking the students more questions and
asking for their predictions of what is going to happen next I believe that
they would have been able to remember that story better. I appreciate the comments
that Ms. Scruggs gave me on my evaluation and if I apply them to my teaching they
will help me become a better teacher.
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