Writing #1

Teacher Candidate: Erin Crawford Date: September 24, 2019

Cooperating Teacher: Lisa Gross Coop. Initials:
Group Size: 16 students Allotted Time: 20 minutes Grade Level: Kindergarten
Subject or Topic: Writing Section: 391

STANDARD: (PA Common Core):

 CC.1.4.K.B - Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to focus on one
specific topic.
 CC.1.4.K.M - Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose narratives
that describe real or imagined experiences or events.

I. Performance Objectives (Learning Outcomes)

● Students will be able to illustrate a picture of something that happened to them.

A. Introduction/Hook –
 Tell the students that today they are going to get to work in their writing journals to help them
become great writers!
 Our focus today is going to be drawing a picture.

B. Development –
 Show the students a book
o Review that the author writes the words and the illustrator draws the pictures both
to share their ideas with you.
o For example this author wrote about ___________.
 Today I want to teach you how to draw and write about something that really happened in
your life!
o The day my family got a dog
 Model drawing a picture about your life event (getting a dog).
o Talk aloud while you draw about what you are drawing.
 Then have students draw a life event they have had in their journals (a memory).
C. Closure –
 Have students partner up and share what they drew about today.
 Today and every day I would like for you to work on using your pictures and words to
share your ideas for others to see and hear!

II. Assessment/Evaluation plan

1. Formative
 Look at students work once it is completed and ask them what they drew about to see if their
words match their image.
III. Reflective Response
A. Report of Students’ Performance in Terms of States Objectives

Student Objective –
B. Personal Reflection
1. How clear was I in my modeling? Was it engaging?
2. Was I able to pace my lesson to fit the allotted time?
3. How could this lesson be improved?
4. Did I give the students long enough to implement the lesson in their writing?

VI. Resources