Lesson 1
Lesson 1
Learning Objective(s)
What do you want students
to know, understand, or be
able to do as a result of this
lesson?
Evidence for
assessment
Teaching this lesson will help students retell details and events of a story in the
order that they occurred, build comprehension and strengthen writing.
Standards:
Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central
message or lesson. RL.1.2
Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details. RL.1.3
Write narratives in which they recount two or more appropriately sequenced events,
include some details regarding what happened, use temporal words to signal event
order, and provide some sense of closure. W.1.3
This lesson is designed to meet students interests, needs and strengths through a
variety of instructional activities as demonstrated by the read aloud, collaborative
retell, and reading workshop. In addition to capitalizing on students basic love for
read-alouds, Kitchen Dance relates to childrens inquisitive nature and natural
curiosity about the occurrences and going-ons of life after bed. The collaborative
retell was constructed in consideration of their high participation during
active/collective engagement in learning. Collaborative learning is one of their
strengths. Independent reading is also emerging as a group strength, but I also
consider it a need for all of our students.
Prerequisite Knowledge Students should be familiar with purpose of transition words from Writing
What prior knowledge are
Workshop. They should also be familiar with recalling details and events during
you counting on? Will this be
retells. This will definitely be a problem for some students, which is why I have
a problem for any of your
students and if so, what will chosen to begin the lesson by revisiting/reviewing the purpose of transition words
you do?
Learning Experience
Assessment
Starting It
Output:
Reading Workshop: Independent reading
Listening to students retell a story will be
followed by shared reading/retells.
the best indicator of learning for this
Materials: Transition Words Worksheet lesson.
20-25 minutes
Finishing It
How will you bring students
to closure with this learning
experience and connect it to
future learning?
Considering the vast differences in reader and writer habits, this lesson had to be
sheet will both be differentiated so that every student can use it as a resource in
retelling and writing (one section will be complete with words such as first,
second, third and another section will list words such as suddenly, in the
meantime and as a result. I have also considered the different learning styles in
our classroom, and designed the lesson to support visual (the chart/worksheet),
auditory (discussion/collaborative retell) and independent construction of
knowledge (reading/retelling).
Materials Needed