Due: May 6 , 2022 th

LESSON TITLE: ____Skim and Scan___________________ Lesson #: __16___

TEACHER NAME: _Teresa Spyra_____________________ DATE:__ March 14__________

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Preparation/Planning
ESL Course: Adult Basic
ESL Low Intermediate Level Beginning Intermediate Advanced Multilevel
Class has 8 enrolled adult □ □ □ □
ESL learners with
different L1s
Topic/Theme: skimming
and Scanning
Listening Students will be able to listen to and understand a presentation on
Objectives: skimming and scanning.
Speaking Students will be able to answer questions about headings, titles
and content of skimmed and scanned materials including fliers
and reading. Students will also be able to read aloud.
Reading Students will be able to read about and understand fliers and two
informational articles. One article is about penguins, and one is
about collecting four leaf clovers.
Writing Students will be able to write about the titles, headings and
vocabulary they discover throughout the lesson.
Emotional Students will be able to feel confident in remembering the lesson
content and applying the skills learned in future classes.
Bridging

What background knowledge The students do not know what skimming or scanning are
do the students already have? but do know what a title and headings are. We had a
How do you know? previous lesson that asked about skimming and scanning and
all of the students were unable to answer the question.
Knowing that they will need those skills in future classes and
for future tests, I developed this lesson.

What will you do to activate or I will have students think of a time that they needed specific
link students’ prior knowledge information and how they went about finding that
or experience to upcoming information. We will also go over their previous knowledge
content? of headings and titles. One of the comprehension readings
has a topic that the students have learned the previous week.
Engagement with New Material
What will you do to engage Students will take turns reading and answering questions
students in the active learning about the material in class.
of the new material?

What will you do to ensure Students will be called on individually and be asked to do
that all students are engaged? individual writing. Students will also be able to answer
questions as a class.
Application
What opportunities will you Student will apply their new skills to reading, and identifying
provide students to practice parts of fliers and an informational text. Students will also
and apply their apply their new skill in a Burlington English lesson and in all
knowledge/skill to meet the future lessons this session.
objectives for this lesson? To
apply to other contexts?

Assessment
How will you assess their Students will be assessed by their ability to identify
learning of the objectives? headings, titles, and the topic of the reading comprehension
articles. Students will also be require to apply this skill in
future lessons and on their CASAS practice test in a future
lesson.
Closing
How will you help students I recapped the lesson with a simple review of the important
recap the learning and link it points, and then we applied the lesson to a reading. After the
back to the original purpose of recording we apply the lesson again in two more lessons.
the lesson?
Technology
If applicable for your context This lesson was held on Zoom and uses Google Classroom.
and your lesson, how will you The only technology used was Google Docs for the lesson
meaningfully integrate application.
technology into your lesson?

Reflection
What went well? How do you Students that were at the start of the lesson were able to
know? apply these skills easily and answer comprehension
questions.
What didn’t go as planned? This lesson is filled with things that didn’t go as planned. I
was almost late because I had a very bad migraine and sinus
headache due to allergies. Most of the students were
significantly late which caused many to miss the beginning
critical information in the presentation. Halfway through the
class an admin showed up to take my students into a Zoom
Room and give their assessment of my teaching and the class
 content. I was not made aware of this so I did not create a
lesson that could have a large break in it. I also had a lot of
technology issues this week and one of my materials did not
load into the classroom. We did not complete half of what I
had planned because of the interruption and lateness of the
students. I feel that his lesson showcases how I deal with
things when nothing is going as planned. If anyone wants to
observe me at my most stressed, this class is a good example
of that.
What contingency plan did The contingency plan I used was ‘just keep going.’ Almost
you employ? everything that can go wrong, did and I just kept moving
forward. Fortunately, my students were very understanding
and we made it through okay.
What would you do differently Next time I will know that I am being interrupted so that I
next time? can plan my lesson around that instead of breaking it up in
unequal parts. I wasn’t able to find any good videos on this
topic. Hopefully in the future I can incorporate a video that
expands on the topic learned in this lesson.
Did your students meet the The students were able to identify titles, headings and write
purpose and objectives for this them down in their notebooks. Students were able to read the
lesson?  What is your evidence reading comprehension articles with little difficulty. Students
for each? were able to understand and identify new vocabulary for
future study. Students were able to understand the
presentation. Finally, students were able to identify
important parts of fliers which will be contained in future
CASAS tests.
What do your students need Students need more practice with identifying things on fliers
next? How do you know? and in readings. This was the first lesson on how to apply
skimming and scanning to readings and fliers. Students
struggled a little bit with the fliers but will be exposed to
them in future lessons and in their CASAS test.
What did you learn about your I learned that I can be flexible and still have an effective
glows and grows as a teacher?  lesson when things go wrong. I think that I handled the
What can you do to work on interruption and late attendance well. I was also able to keep
your areas needing growth?   the students engaged and on track after the unplanned
interruption.
As always I need better closing exercises that have clear
review activities. By watching my lessons I have discovered
that gap and will be working on that this next teaching
session.

TIMINGS: 
 Presentation 15 minutes
 TIMINGS: 
 Fliers application 20 minutes
 Reading comprehension applied practice Penguins 45
minutes
 Final review 3 minutes
 NewsELA Lots of Luck 10 minutes

MATERIALS: All materials in file folder

1. Presentation
2. Important info word document
3. Fliers
4. Penguins
5. NewsELA Lots of Luck Article