Student Teaching edTPA Lesson Plan Template

Subject: Literacy Central Focus: Retelling different parts of a story. (Beginning/ Middle/ End/ key details/ characters/ setting)

Essential Standard/Common Core Objective: Key Ideas and Details: CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.1.1 Ask and answer questions about key details in a text. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.1.2 Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.1.3 Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.

Date submitted: 3/26/2014

Date taught: 3/27/2014

Daily Lesson Objective: Students will be able to recount different parts of a story. This includes the beginning, middle, end, characters, setting, as well as key details. 21st Century Skills: Critical thinking and Academic Language Demand (Language Function and problem solving, visual literacy, basic literacy, Vocabulary): The different parts of a book, text, story, ect. and creativity skills are implemented in this lesson. Prior Knowledge: Gathering information from texts, making predictions, understanding that there are different arts that make up a story (title), directional skills (front of book versus back)

Activity

Description of Activities and Setting Anticipation: Teacher says have you ever retold your parents or friends or brothers and sisters a story about something that happened to you? I know that when I visit my parents they ask me about what has been going on. When I retell them the story of the events in my life there is a beginning to my story, a middle, an end, as well as characters, a setting (or location) as well as key points that I think are extremely important for them to know and understand my story better. Teacher will ask one student to volunteer a cool story that they would like to share with the class. After the story the teacher will ask retelling questions about the shared story. For example, what was the beginning of (students name )story? Then the teacher will progress and say well, today we are going to read a book called A Green, Green Garden by Mercer Mayer and I am going to test your retelling skills. As I read the book pay attention to

Time 10 minutes

1. Focus and Review

2. Statement of Objective for Student

the parts that you think are critical, or important. Pay special close attention to what happens in the beginning, middle and end of the book. I also want to see who remembers who the characters (or people/animals/ect.) are, where the setting is, as well as anything else that you think is important. Students will be able to understand and identify parts of a story (beginning, middle, end, setting, characters, and key points) and retell them in words or drawings. The teacher will read A Green, Green Garden by . As the teacher reads she will ask students questions, such as I wonder why ? or why did this happen? Ect.

3. Teacher Input

4. Guided Practice

After the book, the teacher will send the students back to their tables. Each table will represent a team. Each team will be given retelling sticks that are labeled with the 6 different retelling skill words. The teacher will go over each stick and what it says. The teacher will explain that each stick has a corresponding picture that matches the skill. When I mention a scene/person/place from the book each group will have 30 seconds to decide on which skill it matches and the team caption (the person who is the table leader for the day) will raise the stick that the team has agreed on. The teams that get it correct will get a point which will be tallied on white board. After each question is answered the teacher will go over why it is that particular skill. For example, if the teacher says In the story there was a person named Mr. Pinky what skill is does Mr. Pinky fall under? Hopefully each team will get that Mr. Pinky is a character and the teacher will explain that since he is a person/animal in the story he is considered a character.

5. Independent Practice

The students will continue to work in their table groups where they will complete the Retelling Skills Worksheet (this is homemade). The teacher will give instructions of how to complete worksheet, know I want to see what you learned. To complete the worksheet you will draw or write whatever you relate to the different retelling skills today. The teacher will then do an example this first left box says beginning, what was the beginning of ? Oh, yes, I remember, at the beginning of the book A Green, Green Garden they needed to get seeds to start their garden. So I am going to draw a shelf full of seeds. The teacher will then let the students complete their worksheets while walking around classroom to make sure that everyone is understanding the work, if not the teacher will spend some one-on-one time to try and help out the struggling student(s).

6. Assessment Methods of all objectives/skills:

7. Closure

The teacher will use the skills in context to a book that the entire class has recently read and is all familiar with. The teacher will say the beginning of recently read book was . And will ask what the middle, end, characters, setting and one key point from the book. This assures the teacher that the students have learned the material To close, the teacher will briefly review all six retelling skills that were worked on in the lesson and list the examples discussed from the book used in the lesson. The teacher will take any last questions.

8. Assessment Results of all objectives/skills: Targeted Students Modifications/Accommodations Student/Small Group Modifications/Accommodations If the table groups are not working well together for the retelling stick game, teacher will change seats of students to better comply with the classroom needs. Materials/Technology: Green, Green Garden By Mercer Mayer, retelling sticks, retelling skills worksheet, markers/crayons, and dry erase board/marker and teacherspayteachers.com for the retelling sticks and the original idea. Reflection on lesson:

CT signature: ________________________ Date: ______

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Reflection
My lesson was focused on retelling skills and implementing these skills in their reading. My cooperating teacher selected this topic knowing that she was going in that direction with her students. The retelling skills that where taught included the beginning, middle, end, characters, setting, problem/ solution, as well as key points of a story. I worked out a rough draft of my lesson plan and had my cooperating teacher review what I had so far. She loved my ideas but together we abbreviated my lesson. My lesson could actually be broken into two parts. So we split it up and used one part for my lesson and then incorporated the other part into my small group reading activity. I selected the book A Green, Green Garden by Mercer Mayer knowing that I could integrate it into my science lesson which is something that I think will be important when I am teaching in my own classroom. The book discussed the plant life cycle from the beginning seed to the dinner table. I also thought that this would help students distinguish the beginning of the book from the end. As I read the book I thought that I did a good job of asking questions that helped point out what a character was or marking spots that could be considered key points. We then broke the class into their table groups and made teams. Each team had their retelling sticks. The teacher helped me out and suggested that each student in each group have one stick per person instead of having a team captain that only got to do the work. This went well; looking back I wish I had used a timer so that it would promote the teams to talk to each other about each question instead of rushing and guessing. Because of this I took extra time at the end to review each skill. We then broke into the small group and we read April Foolishness where I continued the retelling theme. Then the small group and I filled out the retelling worksheet together so that we could discuss and spend more time on the skills learned.

Teacher Feedback

Small group reading activity

Per my cooperating teachers suggestion, we split my lesson plan into the regular lesson plan and then the small group reading activity. She leant me her book April Foolishness by: which I read to a small group that my cooperating teacher per-selected. The group consisted of a handful of students that needed extra time on reading and going over the retelling skills that I taught. As I read the book I asked the students questions such as why do you think the grandpa kept making his breakfast instead of believing his grandkids stories that the animals on his farm where doing crazy things? Can anyone explain to the group what a stampede is? and why did the grandma steal the grandpas toast at the end? After the reading, the group completed the Retelling Skills Worksheet that I made. We went over all of the terms on the worksheet and then I had the students discuss, within their group, what parts of the story matched the skills that they had to draw a picture of. We then went over their worksheets and I asked if they had any questions still about the retelling skills. The most common misunderstanding was the key details skill. From this small group activity I learned to be a lot clearer with instructions, I did not anticipate doing the worksheet along with the students but that was something that I had to modify in my lesson as I was going along. Doing the worksheet with the students helped them better understand so that we could talk out what was expected. I also learned to be careful about the fonts that I select for the worksheets that I create. I am so used to Times New Roman that I did not think about the as and that the students may not know what that symbol represents.

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