Lesson Plan Template ED 3501 (Version C)

Lesson Title/
Focus

My Mama Had a Dancing Heart

Date

Monday Nov/23rd

Subject/Grade
Level

Language Arts Grade 4

Time
Duration

35 minutes

Unit

Reading

Teacher

Ms Cariolato

OUTCOMES FROM ALBERTA PROGRAM OF STUDIES

General
Learning
Outcomes:

General Outcome 2: Comprehend and respond personally and critically to literacy and media texts.

Specific
Learning
Outcomes:

2. 1 Use strategies and cues: Make connections between personal experiences, prior knowledge, and a
variety of texts.
2.2 Respond to texts: Experience texts from a variety of genres and cultural traditions; share responses.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Students will recall someone who is special to them, and create a web of how they are special and what makes
that person so important.
Students will record the poem that was read in class by answering questions that requires them to go back and
look throughout the poem for what they think is the correct answer.
ASSESSMENTS
Observations:

Students are paying attention when the poem is being read out loud to them.
They are using the web worksheet to create a web and not to doodle and go off track.

Key Questions:

How has the special person in your life made you feel?
What makes them a special person?
Do you think they have a dancing heart?

Products/Performances:

The web is filled with responses and the paper has a good amount of writing on it.
When sharing the web with other students in the table groups, students are not criticizing
anyones work or putting other students down. They are tentatively listening to their
classmates and listening to how other students person may differ from their own special
person.
When completing the After reading" worksheet, students are making connections to the
poem and going back into the poem to find the answers to the question.

LEARNING RESOURCES CONSULTED

Alberta Program of studies

MATERIALS AND EQUIPMENT

Before Reading worksheet

After Reading worksheet
Starter Story Worksheet
Language Arts And who are you? textbook

PROCEDURE
Prior to lesson

Gather worksheets and make sure there is enough for every student plus 2 extras.
Introduction

Time

Attention Grabber

We are going to be reading My mama had a dancing heart

Assessment of Prior
Knowledge

Students have been reading a variety of poems, chapters short stories in class,
as well as their own choices of genre outside of the class
Students know how to write full sentences for expressing their answers in the
worksheets.

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Expectations for
Learning and Behaviour

Students are to be quiet when I am giving instruction to them.

When working in group work, they are to be collaborating with members

Transition to Body

Have two students hand out all the worksheets needed and explain to students
as they are getting handed out the order that the worksheets will go in.

only from their group and discussing the topic that is relevant to what we are
doing in class.

Body
Learning Activity #1

Teacher Notes: Assessments/

Differentiation

Before reading activity

- Have students make a My Special Person web on the worksheet provided.
- Read instructions out loud for everyone to hear.
- This activity is done by themselves and there should be minimal to no
talking.
- Model my special person to me on board and why my special person means a
lot to me.
- Ask students if they have any questions.
- After students are done creating their web, students are to share their web in
their table groups to the other students.

3 minutes
Time

10-15
minutes

- Walk around and and ensure students are understanding the instructions of the
assignment.

- Encourage students by saying to them to use up as much space on the paper

Read the poem My Mama Had a Dancing Heart out loud to the class.
- Popcorn if students are not paying attention (popcorn means the reader says
popcorn, then chooses randomly another student in the class to continue
reading where they left off.
- This allows students to pay attention because they do not know if they are
going to be chosen next.

5 minutes

as possible and to write as much as they can think

Learning Activity #2

Teacher Notes: Assessments/

Differentiation

- Students are listening and paying attention as they poem is being read out

Learning Activity #3

After reading worksheet

- Students will now work on the after reading worksheet with their table groups
- Within their table groups, they will discuss what they just read amongst their
classmates and answer the questions to the best of their ability.
- Students are encouraged by the teacher to read the poem in their own table
groups again

15+ minutes

We will not finish these questions this class, but will will continue where we left
off tomorrow morning.

Teacher Notes: Assessments/

Differentiation

loud.

- They are not making any noises that could disrupt the readers reading.

Closure
Consolidation of Learning: In group work: Students are talking to each other and sharing ideas of what
the poem could mean.
- Students worksheets are filled out with little to no room left for writing

Time

Feedback From Students:

Feedback To Students

- Make sure these worksheets are in your notebooks so they do not end up
getting lost

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Transition To Next Lesson

- Students will finish writing down the questions as a group.

- We will come together as a group discussion so answer each question one
by one.

- We will then start on the My special person stories which students stories

1 minute

will be modified with having to start each sentence with a different starter.

Sponge Activity/Activities

We can discuss the questions as a class and see what answers the students have written
down

After that, we could start on the My special person stories.

Reflections from the lesson

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