Jillian Schoer Student Teaching Professor Schneider Observation #3 April 3, 2013 Pronouns Lessons Plan Reflection This was

my first observed lesson that I completed with Ms. Gonzalezs first grade class. When I first arrived to Ms. Gonzalezs class I was worried that I was not going to be able to transition well from sixth grade to first grade. Luckily, I was wrong because I transitioned very well! I was very excited to teach a lesson in first grade because I felt that first grade involved more hands on activities. When I created my pronouns lesson I tried to think what would excite me if I was a first grade student. The first idea that came into my head was a song. I figured that if I was able to introduce the idea of pronouns with a song students will be able to remember the lesson. After I found the pronoun song from PBS kids, I wanted to create a colorful SMART Board lesson. When I think of first graders I think of bright colors with rainbows. I wanted my SMART Board lesson to be visually pleasing to the students! Once I started creating my SMART Board lesson I had to keep in mind that some of the first grade students are not on reading level and may not be able to read some of the words. In order to help the

students that were having difficulty reading I used pictures! For one activity I had students match the appropriate pronoun to the picture. This allowed for the students to visually see the connection between the picture and the pronoun. After students were able to understand pronouns, I created an interactive activity on the SMART Board. This activity was replacing the noun in a sentence with the correct pronoun in the word bank. I used the I do, We do, You do strategy to complete this activity. I first modeled how to replace the noun with a pronoun in the first sentence. Then I completed the second sentence with the students. Then I called on students to come up to the SMART Board to complete the activity. This allowed me to assess which students needed extra help, and which students understood this lesson. Although I had used the SMART Board with the activity, I now realize that I should have used a worksheet as well with the same questions for the students who were not participating with SMART Board. My assessment for this pronouns lesson was for the students to independently write five sentences with pronouns. Although the students wrote fabulous sentences, this did not assess their capability of replacing nouns with pronouns. The next day I then reviewed the topics of pronouns and used two worksheets to assess their comprehension. Thankfully, the students were able to complete the two worksheets flawlessly!