Name: Angela Nuzzo Date: May 27, 2003
Content Area: English Language Arts Unit Topic: Reading Skills
Today’s Lesson: The Paper Crane Grade Level: 7th
LESSON RATIONALE:
New York State Learning Standards and Key Ideas:
Standard 1: Student will read, write, listen, and speak for information and understanding.
Key Idea: Listening and reading to acquire information and understanding
involves collecting data, facts, and ideas; discovering relationships, concepts, and
generalizations; and using knowledge from oral, written, and electronic sources.
Standard 2: Students will read, write, listen and speak for literary response and expression.
Key Idea: Listening and reading for literary responses involves comprehending,
interpreting, and critiquing imaginative texts in every medium, drawing on
personal experiences and knowledge to understand the text, and recognizing the
social, historical and cultural features of the text.
Instructional Objectives:
1. Student will add words to his vocabulary through exposure to text.[knowledge]
2. Student will demonstrate an increase in fluency through practice and reading of
familiar text. [application]
3. Student will demonstrate comprehension of reading through written and oral
expression related to text. [comprehension]
4. Student will be able to decode unfamiliar vocabulary from the text.[knowledge]
Adaptations:
· For students with ADD/ADHD: Teacher will provide students with environment having minimal distractions.
· For students with learning disabilities: Teacher will modify reading curriculum from at grade level to current grade level, which is 3.6.
· For students with auditory processing problems: Teacher will provide clear written/oral directions. Teacher will guide students using visual aids.
Materials:
vocabulary flash cards List of comprehension questions
paper passage on historical background of origami
pens/pencils Book: The Paper Crane by Molly Bang
enlarged & typed passage from text
LESSON OPENING
Anticipatory Set: “Have you ever heard of origami?(pause for response) Can you
do it yourself?(pause for response) There are many things that you can make out of paper. We are going to read a story called The Paper Crane by Molly Bang. In this story a man makes a paper bird called a crane. First we will look at some new vocabulary from the book.”
LESSON BODY
Activities:
1. Introduce new vocabulary to the student. Have student decode the new words
and say them aloud. Have student trace words he has difficulty with on his
arm and repeat them aloud.
2. Give the student a set of comprehension questions so that he can listen for the
answers while the teacher reads aloud to the student the historical background
of origami.[modeling]
3. Ask student to answer orally the set of comprehension questions. [checking
for understanding]
4. Have student read a passage, which he is familiar with, from the story The
Paper Crane aloud while timing him, focusing on fluency. Repeat this two
times trying to beat previous times.
4. Have student read The Paper Crane aloud using his finger as a marker.
Closure: “At the end of the story, the author tells us that neither the stranger nor the dancing crane has ever been seen again. There are a lot of things that could have happened to them. Write a paragraph predicting what you think happened to the crane and the stranger after they left the restaurant for the last time.”
LESSON FOLLOW-UP
Independent Practice:
I will have the student write down the new vocabulary words that he had difficulty with, look up the definitions in a dictionary and put them in sentences.
Evaluation:
(a.) Student’s understanding of vocabulary will be determining by reviewing the independent practice work and checking for correct usage of new words.
(b.) I will find out if the student has increased his fluency by timing him with each
reading of the passage from the text and seeing if he can increase his speed.
(c.) I will evaluate the student’s comprehension by listening to his oral response
to the questions.
(d.) Students decoding skills will be determined by the degree of difficulty he has involving synthesis and application of new words.
LESSON RESOURCES
References for student use:
The Paper Crane by Molly Bang
References for teacher use:
Website on the Historical Background of Origami
http://web.archive.org/web/20001014195753/www.art.unt.edu/ntieva/artcurr/japan/origami.htm.