College of Education

Lesson Plan Template

Teacher Candidate: Amanda Cash Date and Time of Lesson: 10/10/14 8:30 A.M.

School: Springfield Elementary Subject/Grade Level: ELA /2
nd
grade

Description of Lesson: Students will engage in morning meeting and use appropriate
discussion strategies to describe key ideas from a story.

Lesson Title or Essential Question that guides the lesson: Turn and Talk Retell: Retelling
the main events of a story.

Curriculum Standards Addressed:
National Standard(s):
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.2.2
Recount or describe key ideas or details from a text read aloud or information presented orally or
through other media.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.2.3
Ask and answer questions about what a speaker says in order to clarify comprehension, gather
additional information, or deepen understanding of a topic or issue.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.2.5
Create audio recordings of stories or poems; add drawings or other visual displays to stories or
recounts of experiences when appropriate to clarify ideas, thoughts, and feelings.

Other:
EEDA. Standard 4: Students will demonstrate a positive attitude toward work and the ability to work
together.

Lesson Objective(s): Assessment(s) of the Objectives:
Students will use decoding strategies to determine missing
words and letters in the morning message.

Students will demonstrate appropriate discussion techniques
when retelling main events of a story to a partner.
Pre: For the morning message students
will be asked to figure out the missing
words and letters using a variety of
decoding strategies.
During: Students will use an application
on their I-pads to retell their story to a
book talk partner. The teacher will listen
in on partner talks and review popplet
creations.
After: Students will use the modeled
discussion strategies to improve their
book talk partnerships. The teacher will
conference with groups and observe
each groups book talk throughout
readers workshop.


Materials/Resources: Reading material, I-pads, chart paper, markers, song lyrics poster, cd
player and cd for vowels song
Prerequisites (Prior Knowledge): Students are expected to sit appropriately in their assigned
spot on the carpet for morning meetings. All students are expected to engage in the activity and
participate in meaningful discussion with their book talk partner.



Procedures
1. Students will gather on the carpet for morning meeting. They will bring their I-pads and
reading materials.

I am looking for a friend who does this quickly and quietly.

Good morning friends! Today we are going to high five our partners and tell them
good morning. Remember, when you high five your friend you make eye contact
with them and say good morning and their name.

2. We need to find the missing parts to our message. Would someone like to begin by
reading the date for us? 10-10-14
What is another way we could write the date? October 10, 2014


Goo_ mornin_!

Friend_ , we have a very special day today! Today i_ our field tri_ ! W__ nee_ to
remember th__ expectations. W__ also have p_cture day th_s m_rning. It is
importan__ that you liste_ and follow expectations today.

Love, Ms. Cash

Now that we have completed our message we can read it. Get your reading voices ready!


3. Now we are going to sing our vowels song.
Boys and girls will alternate between singing each line


4. Now we will turn on our I-pads. Please take a minute or two to review your popplet
and gather your thoughts. You will use your popplet to retell your story to your talk
partner. I will listen to book talks to choose someone for our fish bowl this morning.

5. As students turn and talk with their partners, the teacher will listen in on each group
assessing for meaningful book talk discussions. Students should discuss their five
finger retell. The setting, characters, problems, and solution.

6. The teacher will select a partnership that models the appropriate book talk
discussion. This partnership will sit in the middle of the carpet with their peers
seated in a circle around them. The partners will model their discussion for their
peers (students are the main focus in the middle of the fish bowl). The teacher will
video the fishbowl discussion on the ipad and uploads it to the partners website.

7. Whole group discussion questions:

-What did you notice about this book talk that you could use in your own
partnership?

-Why is this important?

-Give some examples of the things they did?

8. We really want to have powerful book talks within our partnerships. We can use the
strategies demonstrated today to have more meaningful discussion in our book
talks.

Activity Analysis
The first activity has students decode words to determine missing letters and sounds. Students use
the content of the message and decoding strategies to identify missing pieces. Students play I spy
using the morning message to detect certain letters, endings, sounds, etc. This engages learners and
encourages them to use reading strategies. Students sing a song about vowels. The technology used
for this activity includes a cd player and cd with the song. This is a great activity for the entire class
especially students with ADD/ADHD because it provides an opportunity to sing and move.

The second activity focuses on partnership discussions used during readers workshop. Students will
use their I-pads and an application called popplet. Students created a popplet that retells a story
they read. They use their popplet to retell their story in meaningful discussion to their partner. The
teacher selects a partnership and they model their discussion for their peers and they are also
videoed. This is a very hands-on and engaging activity that students enjoy. Students are able to use
the manipulative support of the I-pad to build effective discussion strategies.

Differentiation/Accommodations/Modifications/Increases in Rigor
Students are seated on the carpet in assigned spots and the morning message is visible to all
students. Students that have difficulty staying focused sit at the front near the teacher to ensure they
are staying on task.

References: The music and lyrics used are from the cd Hip-Hop Alpha Bop by Jack Hartman
provided by my cooperating teacher.