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OBJECTIVES
The student will identify one
unique quality in themselves by
writing it on their paper
PROCEDURE
Preparation of the learning environment
The teacher should make sure the carpet is cleared as the children will be sitting there to listen to
the story. The sheets of paper, crayons, and pencils should be at the tables ready for the students
to use. The book should be in ready at the teachers chair in front of the carpet.
Plan for taking turns during the activity
The children will be sharing crayons and taking turns with their colors.
Introduction of the activity to children
As the children enter from recess, instruct them to find their seat on the carpet and get
ready for a read-aloud.
REFLECTION
Through this lesson, I wanted to drive some points home that we had learned in the early literacy
class. We have been talking about read-alouds and how important they are. They help students
increase their vocabulary, recognition of sight words, and comprehension, among many more
things. Through the read-aloud, I made sure to ask questions and use voice inflection to keep the
students engaged. I also did a comprehension check at the end to ask the students what the
author was telling them. After the reading part of the lesson, the students were actually writing
their sight words, which we also talked about in class. The students are learning sight words I
and like and I made it a goal to incorporate these into my lesson. They wrote their sight words
and they were assisted by the adults to sound out words and work on their phonemic awareness,
specifically phonemes.
To prepare for this lesson, I looked at the diversity text set under the specific schools identity. I
thought that some of the books wouldnt fit as well in the class as others would. One other factor
that I noticed in this school is that some of the kids in my class come from rough home-lives.
These students may have parents divorcing, parents working all evening, or issues unknown
going on at home. I chose the book because I thought it was most fitting for these students:
celebrating themselves. I talked with my cooperating teacher and decided to do an activity with
the read-aloud as she normally does. I wrote a lesson and continued to tweak it. I went over it
with my cooperating teacher and it was implemented 2 weeks later. I think the students really
enjoyed the book because it fit them well. I would definitely continue to think about the specific
school that I was in. One of the things that I would change would be to actually walk through the
lesson plan with my cooperating teacher to make sure that is exactly what we were agreeing on
so I would be more comfortable to be in front of the class knowing I had support.
During the lesson, I was assessing their understanding of the book by listening to their answers
as they talked to each other. I would engage with a group sometimes to hear their answers
specifically. After the lesson, I collected the activity papers. I analyzed the drawings and the
sentences. All the students seemed to understand the idea that they were special. They were
engaged in the book as they were answering questions and talking to their partners. I stopped a
few more times than I planned to check their understanding and use the students in the class as
examples and they really enjoyed that. I told them a little about myself and they fed off that. With
the students so engaged in the book and talking about the thing they know best, themselves, they
really understood what the author was saying. They all at some point during the lesson thought
that they had a special quality about them.
For a future lesson, after seeing how involved the students were, I would make sure a lesson
connected to them, their lives, their family, etc. They loved getting to share about themselves and
their dreams. One thing that I would do differently in the future is make it more interactive. I would
have the kids stand up at the end, maybe even bring in mirrors, and have them say something
positive to themselves to enhance that comprehension. I also talked with my cooperating teacher
after the lesson that one of the great things about read alouds is the greater vocabulary. Next
time I plan a read aloud I would choose 3-4 specific vocabulary words that I can have the children
look for in the book. Another idea that I may want to do differently in the future is give some sort
of deeper part to the lesson. The pictures were fun for them to do, but I may plan to have them
create their own About Me books. I think the students would be able to do a lot more with a
book than one characteristic and one page.