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Lesson Outline
|Candidate: Liz Skoczenski |Coordinator: David Meglathery |
|Date December 3rd, 2013 |Grade: 1st |Mentor: Adrienne Minnery |
|Lesson Part |Activity description/Teacher does |Students do |
|Formal Preassessment |After showing students what the learning target for the lesson is, I will ask them if they |Students respond to the questions about |
|(Sequence start) |can tell me what a character is. This will show me if students already know what I’m going |definition of plot and setting. |
| |to teach them. | |
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|Title |All About Characters |
|State Standard |RSL 1.3 Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details |
|Central Focus (CF) |To describe the main character in a story |
|Learning Target |Students will be able to recall the main characters of a story |This will be posted for all students to see. |
|(LT) | |We will also read this aloud as a class. |
|Instruction |Materials: David Goes to School by David Shannon |Students will listen to the story David Goes |
|Inquiry |Poster board |to School. |
|Preview |Large markers | |
|Review |Location of Students: front carpet area in front of white board | |
| |For this lesson, I will read the students a rather simple book titled David Goes to School. | |
| |But before I begin reading, I’ll have the word “character” written on the board. I will tell| |
| |them to think about this word, and then I will give them a kid-friendly definition. | |
|Informal Assessment |When I finish reading the book, I’ll ask the students, “Give me a thumbs up if you can tell |Students do thumbs up or thumb down depending |
| |me who the main character of this story is.” This will allow me to see if students are able |on if they understand whom the main character |
| |to identify who the main character is. |is. |
|Practice Activity |Next I will be up front and as a class we will fill out a poster stating the main details |Students will participate in discussion and |
|Support |about the main character (David). This will be a teacher-led discussion. |help me fill in the poster. |
|GROUP | | |
|Informal Assessment |After discussing the main character as a class, I will have the students do a turn and talk |Turn and talk with partner |
| |and tell their partner more about David. | |
|Practice Activity |Students go back to their desks and read a fiction book from their book bags, and then they |Read book independently, and then fill out |
|Support |will fill out a worksheet about the main character in their story. |worksheet. |
|INDIVIDUAL | | |
|Closure Assessment of |I will know that they students have hit the learning target by simply asking them if we have|Read book independently, and then fill out |
|Student Voice |hit it. I’ll have the students read it aloud again and then tell me if they think we got it |worksheet. |
| |or not. | |
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|Formal Postassessment |End of unit test |End of unit test |
|(Sequence end) | | |
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