Name: Jacob Schmudlach Brief Description of Activity: 3:00-3:10 Warm-Up Activity (Using Scales after the Read Aloud

for the story Thank You Maam by Langston Hughes) 3:10-3:30 Shared Reading 3:30-3:40 Record & Share Important Information 3:40-4:00 Work on Snakes Brochure (Project) Instructional Goal: The student will work on organizing thoughts and seeing character development through the read aloud of the Langston Hughes story. The student will also work on reading and recording important information from his book that could potentially be added to his project. Lastly, the student will increase his familiarity with the use of technology.

Date: 10/12/14 Time: 3:00 pm-4:00 pm

Evidence of Instructional Goal: The student will learn to organize thoughts and see character development in the story through the use of Semantic Differential Scales. The student will also practice correct writing when he records information from his book to add to his project. The fluency practice will always be evident when he is reading aloud to me. Lastly, the evidence of the technology use will be seen through his project on Word.

Text(s) used in the lesson: Thank You Maam by Langston Hughes, Pythons by Lucia Rhaatma Approximate level of text: 3rd grade and up Tool Selection: The computer will be used for a large portion of this class. It will be used to look up some information online and to create the brochure on Microsoft Word. The actual story by Langston Hughes will be crucial to a better understanding of how to do the scales activity as well. Lastly, the non-fiction book the student is reading will give him key information to record for his project. Description of Instruction (should almost always include reading and writing): - We will start this lesson by doing something a little different. We will warm up by doing a read aloud of the story Thank You Maam by Langston Hughes. During this time the student will listen to me read aloud. After that, I will have created some Semantic Differential Scales for the student to go through with me. Through this, the student can express to me how well he understood the story. This will be an activity that is different than we usually do but it will help the student organize his thought as well as visually see the character development through the story. After this, the student will begin to read to me. This will be his book about snakes. He will work on his reading

and we will stop periodically to take important notes that could be used for his project. After this is finished we will begin to use the computer to work on his project through Microsoft Word. Here he can continue to work on typing and becoming familiar with using these programs.