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Literacy Lesson Plan

Rachael Sims
ECE 3580
March 11, 2014











Essential Elements of Lesson Planning
1. Content
A. Standards

ELE: Children grow in their capacity to use
effective listening skills and understand
what is said to them. [HSCOF-LA
1.1.1,1.1.2, 1.1.4] [GLCE-R.CN.00.01-.05]
B. Enduring Understandings &
Essential Questions

Children will gain an understanding of the
terms healthy and unhealthy in relation to
dental hygiene.
C. Objectives ( SWBAT)

Students will be able to demonstrate
knowledge of the difference between the
terms healthy and unhealthy.
Students will be able to distinguish
between foods that are healthy or
unhealthy for their teeth.




2. Assessment
A. Formative Assessment
( Strategies to check for
understanding, guide practice)
Students will be assessed through
questions before, during and after the
story as well as through their participation
in a sorting game.
B. Summative Assessment
( When Appropriate) quizzes,
objective tests, essays,
projects)



3. Instruction
A. Anticipatory Set
Introduce a picture of a tooth. Allow
students time to share what they know
about teeth.
B. Instructional activities
( Includes Introduction,
Presentation, /clues for
Discovery, Modeling, and
engagement in gradual release,
as planned)
1. Ask students if they have ever heard
the word healthy? Define healthy for
students. Ask students for examples of
how to keep their teeth healthy.
2. Show students an example of a food
that is healthy for their teeth.
3. Ask students if they have ever heard
the word unhealthy? Define unhealthy
for students. Ask students for examples
of things that would make their teeth
unhealthy.
4. Show students an example of a food
that is unhealthy for their teeth.
5. Read the story Sugar bug Doug,
pausing to check for understanding
through short questions.

Special Attention to:
1) Differentiation


2) Higher Order Thinking


3) Technology
1. For those students who learn better
kinesthetically, make the Happy Tooth
Game a movement game that they can
play in the gym or outdoors.

Provide an extension activity for students
who have mastered the Happy Tooth
Game where they draw a picture of
their favorite food and decide if it is
healthy or unhealthy. They will indicate
their choice by gluing a sad tooth or
happy tooth next to their drawing.

2. To promote higher order thinking for
students, encourage them to apply the
terms healthy and unhealthy to other
aspects of their lives, such as physical
health.

3. To add a technological piece to the
lesson, children could play Kids' Dental
Health - Educational Interactive Book
with Games for Kids on an I pad,
however I will not be using technology in
this particular lesson.
C. Gradual Release Techniques
1. After the story is done, take time to
review the concepts of healthy and
(Formative Assessment)
Checking for Understanding,
guided Practice, Independent
Practice
unhealthy with students.
2. Introduce the Happy Tooth Game to
students.
3. Demonstrate the concept of the game
using the two foods you introduced
earlier.
4. As a group, determine which food goes
in which bin.
5. Allow students to take turns
participating in the game as a group,
prompting when necessary.
6. Assess each childs understanding by
having them individually place 4 foods in
the correct bins.
D. Closure
After each student has had an individual
turn, reform the group and ask students
some review questions such as: what is
healthy mean? What do you eat that is
healthy for your teeth?


4. Reflection
A. How can I and they do better?

Next time I teach this lesson, I would ask
the kids to orally identify what they chose
from the box rather than naming it for
them. This would make them think back to
the book and use prior knowledge to
independently determine what the food
was and what group it belonged in.

I also would not include orange juice in the
food choices for the lesson as I felt it
confused the students. Orange juice is
good for you, but bad for your teeth.
B. What are they and what am I
ready to do next?
I feel that I am better prepared to teach a
small group lesson to this age group. With
the right book and right materials, they
can stay engaged for a long period. I feel
that my students are now ready to
participate in the extension of my lesson.
For the extension activity, students will
draw a picture of their favorite food and
determine from the info they gathered
from the lesson as well as prior knowledge
whether or not the food is healthy or
unhealthy for them. This extension will
make students apply what they have
learned in a different context.

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