EDPC 605 Week 6 Learning Task and Assignment #2 (Reading)

ELA Reading

Activity-based lesson adjusted to Common Core.

Lesson topic: Animals speaking in stories, Read Billy Goats Gruff

Grade level: 2^nd grade

AIM questions:

1.     What learning objectives/main ideas do students need to know (maximum of 3)?

·       How to understand the authors point of view

·       Determine word meaning from the story

·       Understand authors point of view

2.     What common core skills will be introduced or reinforced during the lesson?

·       CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.5
Describe the overall structure of a story, describing how the beginning introduces the story and the ending concludes the action.

·       CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.6
Acknowledge differences in the points of view of characters, including by speaking in a different voice for each character when reading dialogue aloud.

·       CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.7
Use information gained from the illustrations and words in a print or digital text to demonstrate understanding of its characters, setting, or plot.

·       CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.9
Compare and contrast two or more versions of the same story by different authors or from different cultures.

3.     Which content area standards are addressed in this lesson?

·       Structure of the story

·       Understanding different point of views

·       Use different forms of  media

4.     What academic and content specific vocabulary is introduced in this lesson?

·       Point of view, digital media

5.     What materials (e.g. Map, Song, and Activity Sheet) will I present to students?

·       Word search of different animals

·       Word search of words in the story

·       Read along with CD

6.     How will I open the lesson (motivation) and capture student interest?

·       Watch the Billy Goats Gruff short film

7.     What additional individual/team/full class activities will I use to help students discover what they need to learn (suggest three)? If these are group activities, how will student groups be organized?

·       Create a short story using an animal as the narrator, make sure the story has a beginning, middle and end

·       Read another version of Three Billy Goats Gruff (Three Billy Goats Fluff ) Discuss how the stories are the same or different with a Venn diagram. Use whiteboard students can write in their answers.

·       Read another version of  Three Billy Goats Gruff (Three Cabritos) and students create a three story clock

8.     How will I differentiate instruction with multiple entry points for diverse learners?

·       Musical story

·       Draw a picture relating to the story

·       Writing your own version of the story or working in groups to create a story

·       Create hand puppets in class for the story. Students can act out story with teacher with their puppets

9.     What H.O.T. (Higher Order Thinking) questions will I ask to engage students in analysis and discussion?

·       Ask students about the lesson in the story

·       Ask the students what would you do if you were the troll and why?

10.  How will I assess student mastery of the skills, concepts and content taught in this lesson?

·       Vocabulary test

·       Homework using vocabulary words from the story

·       Writing of their own  version of the story

·       Create a basket of words with the beginning event, middle events, end events, title, and author. Students must create a book using all cards. 

11.  How will I bring lesson to closure (summary questions)?

·       Students will create their own beginning, middle or end to the story Three Billy Goats Gruff and tell which part of the story they are recreating (beginning, middle or end)

12.  How will I reinforce and extend student learning?

·       Class takes turn reading a sentence from the story in the character voice

13.  What topics come next? Tomorrow? Day after?  

·       Make a mural of the story. Students can make a goat, mask, troll, bridge, grass, anything related to the story for our mural.

14.  How do I evaluate this lesson?

·       Strengths-variety of activities

·       Weaknesses-more ideas for assessment

·       Areas to work on-extending the topic past the next day

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