Student Name: Mahra Al Qassimi

Username ID: H00330597

Course Name: Practicum 3a
Course Code: EPC 3403
Course Teacher: Antoinette Wiseman
Task Title: Observation Task 3
 Observation Task 3: Teaching Shared/Guided Reading

Table 3: Teaching Shared/Guided Reading

Title: Titch by Pat Hutchins
What the teacher does What the children do Comments
- The teacher begins - Students sit and - I feel like it would
by showing them the listen attentively. be better to use a
storybook. bigger sized book for
- Students are all the students to
- Teachers introduces participating and see.
the story by answer questions
explaining and that are either - I liked that she asked
telling the students directed to an them closed-ended
who the author and individual or whole questions to grab
illustrator is. group. their attention and
keep them
- Teacher explain the - Students repeat entertained.
concept of sizes. words after the Students like to talk
teacher. and share more
- Teachers points at about themselves
the characters and - Students are engaged with the whole class.
asks the students in the story.
who is bigger or - It would have been
smaller. nice if the teacher
brought with her
- Repeats words. different sized
objects and began
- Grabs the students introducing the
attention by asking if concept this way.
they have a bicycle
at home and how - Instead of having a
many. long activity for each
individual or pairs,
- Askes students have the students
closed-ended play a short and
questions. simple game in
groups that is related
to the story.
Reflections on Observation Task 3: Teaching Shared/Guided Reading

1. Which concepts about print (CAP), phonological awareness, letter

knowledge and or phonics did the teacher focus on?

- The teacher focused on pointing while reading, and while she was at it
Ms. Hamda would ask them questions such as whos bigger Titch or
Mary? and what sound does Titch begin with.

a) What did strategies/activities the teacher use to help the

students understand the concept being taught?

- The teacher asked the students closed-ended questions to keep them

engaged. Since story-time takes place at 12 and lasts for about 30
minutes before home-time, students dont have enough time to work
on activities.

2. Were there any initial/medial/final sounds, punctuation, sight words or

word families that were covered during the lesson? If they were, select
(a); if they were not, select (b).

a. What was the purpose of teaching these concepts? Explain its

importance.

- The teacher used the look and say approach, she would point at a word
and say it out loud. The purpose of teaching these concepts is for the
students to be able to sight words and recognize them and understand the
concept of different sizes.