Teacher Education Lesson Plan Template

Teacher: Ms. Brinda Patel

Date: 2/17/2016

Title of Lesson: Frindle

Cooperating Teacher: Ms. Elizabeth Reimond

Core Components

Subject, Content Area, or Topic

Language Arts
Student Population
PM-5
Learning Objectives
SOL
5.5 The student will read and demonstrate comprehension of fiction texts, narrative nonfiction
and poetry.
VBO
Skim materials to develop a general overview of content and to locate specific information
Summarize supporting details in nonfiction texts
Locate information to support opinions, predictions, and conclusions.
Materials/Resources
Frindle, Level 40
Sticky notes
My reading notes bookmark
High Yield Instructional Strategies Used (Marzano, 2001)
Check if Used

Strategy
Return
Identifying Similarities & Differences
45%
Summarizing & Note Taking
34%
Reinforcing Efforts & Providing Recognition
29%
Homework & Practice
28%
Nonlinguistic Representations
27%
Cooperative Learning
23%
Setting Goals & Providing Feedback
23%
Generating & Testing Hypothesis
23%
Questions, Cues, & Advanced Organizers
22%
DOES YOUR INSTRUCTIONAL INPUT & MODELING YIELD THE POSITIVE
RETURNS YOU WANT FOR YOUR STUDENTS?
Check if Used Strategy
Return
Teach Others/Immediate Use of Learning
95%
Practice by Doing
75%
Discussion
50%
Demonstration
30%
Audio Visual
20%
McDonalds Draft (2010). Modified by Kreassig and Gould (2014) for use with student teachers.
Revised August 2015

Reading
Lecture

10%
05%

Safety (if applicable)

Time
(min.)

Process Components

*Anticipatory Set
Teacher will review the chapter with students. Teacher will explain the importance of
reviewing and summarizing. Teacher will ask students if there are any concepts that
needs to be reviewed.

*State the Objectives (grade-level terms)

We are learning to demonstrate comprehension of fiction texts.
We will determine the important information to support main ideas, opinions and
conclusion.

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*Instructional Input or Procedure

Today, I want you all to make inference based on character's thought, action, and
behavior. Teacher reads few pages and explain what is going on in the story. Teacher talk
about the plot, character and theme of the story. Students will be asked to read 2-3
paragraphs. Teacher will ask students to summarize what they just read one by one.
Also teacher will ask them to make prediction about next chapter.

*Modeling
Today they will read a chapter from Frindle. They will analyze the information in that
chapter. They will answer the question that will be asked during the reading.

*Check for Understanding

Teacher will ask students question throughout the chapter. Questions that will be asked
throughout the book are:
What is the most important information?
What did you like about you just read?
What you want to know more about?
Do you have any questions?
*Guided Practice
None for this lesson.

*Independent Practice
Teacher will instruct students to complete the question on Reading notes bookmark
every week.

Assessment
Students will respond to the question on Reading notes bookmark and will be assessed
on that. Teacher uses anecdotal notes to keep track of students performance based on
their answers on sticky note on Reading notes bookmark.

McDonalds Draft (2010). Modified by Kreassig and Gould (2014) for use with student teachers.
Revised August 2015

*Closure
Student turn in their sticky notes or My reading notes when they are finished.
Teacher will ask students to give quick review of what they learned in 2-3 sentences.
Teacher will reflect on leaning target with students.

Differentiation Strategies (enrichment, accommodations, remediation, or by learning style).

Since this group is low level reading group, teacher will read the chapter to the group and will
also ask basic level questions. Students will fill out bookmark once a week.
Lesson Critique. To be completed following the lesson. Did your students meet the
objective(s)? What part of the lesson would you change? Why?
Next time, I will time myself. I went 4 minutes over then the expected time.
*Denotes Madeline Hunter lesson plan elements.
Brinda Patel
Intern Signature

Cooperating Teacher
Signature

McDonalds Draft (2010). Modified by Kreassig and Gould (2014) for use with student teachers.
Revised August 2015

2/17/16
Date