Lesson Plan for Teacher Education

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Lesson Plan for Teacher Education

Pre-Service Teacher: Kimberly Snook Date: September 27, 2010

Type of Classroom: General Education___X___ Special Ed. Self Contained:______

Resource Room:______Inclusive:______

Pull out Support:______With Special Needs: __4__

English Language Learners:__0__

Grade Level:__2__ Subject: Language Arts Topic: Reading Skill: Character Attributes

and Setting

Length of lesson/period:__40 minutes__

Stage One- Desired Results

Objectives:
1. Students will be able to identify Character Traits.
2. Students will be able to identify the setting(s) in the story.
3. Social development is fostered as students relate to the connections their classmates make aloud.
4. Students will develop the group skill of explaining their thinking aloud.
New Jersey Core Curriculum Standards:
2.3.2.C.3, 2.3.5.C.5 , 2.3.1.G.5, 2.3.5.A.5, 2.3.2.C.4 , 2.3.3.A.3, 2.3.5. A.4, 2.3.2.A.7
Essential Questions:
What are Character attributes? How would you describe….
What is the setting in the story?
Let’s think why Poppleton listened to the TV to eat grapefruits to live longer?
What other things can help you live longer?

Stage Two- Assessment

How will the students demonstrate comprehension of their learning (task)?
Students will create a class book on the mystery friend (Gregory Grapefruit) and his attributes to be read to the kindergarten class.
Students will verbally answer questions about the story.
How will students’ work be measurably assessed (evaluation tool)?
I will score them on capital letters, punctuation and completion of written assignment. I will also score the students on following directions and doing their personal best work.
Students will be observed for accurate answers through questions and charts created.
Students will be assessed on explaining their thoughts to the essential questions.

Stage Three- Planning Your Lesson

1.  Starting Your Lesson (5-7 minutes)

Motivation and Elicit Prior Knowledge:

I am so excited to introduce this lesson so let’s wake up our brains. I know you’ve been reading our room so let’s use our eyes to see if there is anything different in the classroom, aside from our guest! (Prompt to teacher’s desk if necessary).

So let’s get started with some Character Attributes!

Can you tell me what a Character Traits is? (The name, color, size, shape, texture, age, or how the character acts or feels)

Let’s think about how you might describe me to someone who has never met me?

Let’s think about the hints we can use when we are describing something: The name, color, size, shape, texture, age, how the character acts or feels.

2.  Experience and Explore (15-18 minutes)

Let’s look at the title of our story, what do we think it might be about?

Looking at the picture what type of animal might our story is about.

Let’s make some predictions about what the story might be about.

We will do a Read Aloud at the Rug (Poppleton and the Grapefruit by Cynthia Rylant).

Who are the characters in the story? (Poppleton, Hudson, and Uncle Bill)

What type of animal is Poppleton (pig), Hudson (mouse), and Uncle Bill (mouse)?

Turn to your partner and come up with some character traits for Poppleton, Hudson and Uncle Bill.

Let’s make a list of some of their traits.

Poppleton / Hudson / Uncle Bill
Pig
Adult
Pink
naive
silly / Mouse
Adult
Light Brown
Smart / Mouse
Older Adult
Light Brown
Glasses
Cane
Wise

What is the setting of the story? How do we know that? At Poppleton’s house, he is watching TV and eating grapefruit.

(As quiet as mice we are going to go back to our seats.)

Let’s explore our mystery friend! Let’s ask questions about different character traits:

Color, Size, Shape, Texture, Weight

Talk with your table about some questions to ask about what’s in the mystery bag.

(Call on students to ask questions and write answers on board.)

On your piece of paper let’s predict (guess) (hypothesize) what is in the mystery bag.

(One child will peek into bag and remove our new friend for the class to see). We will list the character traits of our new friend (Gregory Grapefruit).

Hey look at that: Gregory Grapefruit is an alliteration.

An alliteration is when the first letter of a word is repeated.

Example: Susie sells seashells at the seashore

Has anyone tasted a grapefruit?

What do you think it tastes like?

I think Poppleton and Gregory Grapefruit would like us to taste some grapefruit.

What did you think? Did you like it?

Do you like our new class friend? Let’s write a book about our new friend.

So let’s describe our new friend in a story. I want you to give our friend a name, age, what he/she looks like, and things he/she likes. Not only will you get to write the book we will also illustrate the book.

3.  Closure (8-10 minutes)

Let’s share some of our stories!

I spoke with Mrs. Hildebrandt this morning and she loved that we are writing our own stories about our new friends and we are going to go share our class story with her kindergarten class later in the week!

Materials: Story: Poppleton and the Grapefruit by Cynthia Rylant

Mystery Bag

3 Grapefruits

Gregory Grapefruit

Sugar

Paper Cups

Handwriting Paper

Sentence Strips

Chart Paper

Markers

Differentiated Instruction

Below:
Questions to check for understanding.
Why did Poppleton eat the grapefruit?
Did Poppleton like the grapefruit?
How did Uncle Bill live to be one hundred years old?
On Level:
Connect text to self.
Let’s think about something you might have eaten that was good for you that you did not like. Let’s make a list. Would you eat something you didn’t like if it were to help you live to be one hundred years old?
Above Level:
Higher order thinking questions.
Connect text to self and text to text.
Let’s pretend we are Poppleton and we want to live one hundred years, would you eat a grapefruit if you were told it would help you live to one hundred years old? What else could you do to help to live to one hundred years old?
What do you think the author is trying to tell us in this story?

Reflection: