Lesson Planning

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Lesson Planning
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Make a template for use throughout the semester

• Name
• Grade Level
• School
• Date
• Time

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Reflection from the last lesson

• What did you like about your lesson?
• Are there changes you would have made if you
  would do this lesson again?
• What did you learn about your students? What are
  your observations?
• What did you learn from the last lesson to
  improve the new lesson plan?

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Background, Context, and Purpose
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Lesson Goals

• International Reading Association Standards
• Can be found on WebCT under lesson plans and on
  the textbook website

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Lesson Objectives

• South Dakota Reading and Language Arts Standards
• What is a student at that grade level expected to
  be able to do?
• What can you do in your lesson to support those
  skills?

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Lesson Objectives

• Select
• 1 or 2 from reading
• 1 or 2 from writing
• 1 from speaking
• 1 from listening
• 1 from visualizing/(representation)
• These can carry over to other lesson
• Can you measure students progress?

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Materials and Resources Needed
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The Lesson

• Teacher needs to remember
• Appropriate selection of text
• Before reading, during reading and after reading
• Have I provided a balanced approach?
• Every lesson needs reading and writing

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Introduction

• Getting attention
• Relating to past experience /or knowledge
• Creating a need to know
• Sharing objectives, in general terms

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Introduction

• First class period is always different
• Environment
• For reading plan a picture book at all levels
• Your goal is to see if students can
• Read
• Write
• Talk

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Introduction of Hank the Cowdog (introducing the
book)

• I want you to close your eyes and think of a dog
  on a ranch.(Getting attention)
• How many of you have had a dog? Was you dog like
  the ranch dog you pictures in your mind?
  (Relating to past experience /or knowledge)
• After reading the first chapter, I would like you
  to compare your ideas of a ranch dog with the
  main character Hank. (Creating a need to know)
• Today we are looking at how to compare and
  contrast character as we read. (Sharing
  objectives, in general terms)

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Introduction of Hank the Cowdog (after the book
has been started)

• What do you know about buzzards? (Relating to
  past experience /or knowledge)
• I have a picture of a buzzard. (Getting
  attention)
• Notice how the author uses dialog to help us
  learn about the characters. (Sharing objectives,
  in general terms)
• At the end of the chapter I will be asking you to
  describe the two buzzards. (Creating a need to
  know)

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The Lesson
200-203 Meet, greet and settle students in for lesson
203-210 Introduction-before reading
210-220 Read during reading Writing activity
220-227 Writing activity-game-after reading
227-230 Closure (always the same)
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Methods after the introduction (core of the
lesson)

• Minimum of 5 activities
• Vary your delivery of the lesson
• Try new strategies
• There should be reading and writing each week
• Describe your activities so a substitute teacher
  could complete the lesson
• No worksheets

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ClosureRecipe card to each of your students

• Always ask the same questions
• What did you learn today?
• What did you like best about the lesson?

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Assessment

• What was my state standard/ what were my
  objectives?
• Where in my lesson did I have the students
  demonstrate that they knew the material?
• How will I document they knew a specific skill?

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AssessmentWhen student shows evidence of skill
mastery date the spreadsheet.
Jerry Alice Pete
Specific reading standard
Specific writing standard
Specific speaking standard
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Back Pocket Idea

• Always be prepared!