Harris Reading Lesson 2

TE 402 READING LESSON PLAN

Reading Lesson Plan # 2

Your Name:  Taylor Harris   Grade Level:  1st 

Date lesson was taught:  4/26/11   Number of Students: 3

1) Rationale (What evidence do you have that your focus students need to learn this skill/strategy?):

Students have worked on some rhyming strategies/words already. This will be a fun activity for them to create their own sentences that rhyme together to fully understand what words rhyme. Certain students that I have worked with have no fully gotten the concept of rhyming because I have seen them guess about which words that rhyme incorrectly. I will use these students for this activity to better their understanding of rhyming words.

2) List which reading skill/strategy is the main focus of your lesson (select ONE area):

Rhyming words

3) Objective for this lesson (performance, condition, criteria):

·       Students will repeat the song back to the teacher while offering ideas about the rhyming words in the song. Students will make attempt to make a prediction during the pauses at a word that will rhyme in the sentence. By the end of the lesson, students should be able to identify the words that rhymed throughout the lesson as well as created or predicted the rhyming words throughout the song.

4) Materials & supplies needed:

“A Hunting We Will Go” song

Chart, marker

http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-plans/hunting-will-teaching-rhyming-264.html?tab=4#tabs

5) OUTLINE OF LESSON PLAN (Provide a bulleted list of ideas):

• Introduction to the (5 minutes) 

Reading and writing are very important things that we do in school. Part of reading and writing is dealing with rhyming words. Can anyone tell me what a rhyming word is (or give me an example)?

-If students struggle, ask (Do fish and dish rhyme? Do dog and cat rhyme?)

Have you used rhyming before? Can you give me an example of how you have used rhyming in the past, in school or at home?

-Tell them to think about stories they’ve read, song’s they’ve heard (if they’re struggling for ideas).

Great job, I can tell you’re reading to do an activity about rhyming. Who wants to learn a song?

• OUTLINE of key events during the lesson) (10 minutes)

Teach/Repeat: “Oh, a-hunting we will go, a-hunting we will go.
We'll take a little fox and put it in a box
and then will let it go.” (Possibly write this out for students to read as we sing)

Who can identify the words that rhymed?

Rhyming words are words that have the same sound; can you find which words those were?

Continue:

We'll take a little whale and put it in a (Pause-see what students think) pail
We'll take a little frog and put it on a (“Pause….”) log
We'll take a little fish and put it on a (“Pause….”) dish

What other animals could we add into the song? Can you think of words that rhyme with each of these animal names?

If struggling suggest, snake/lake, bear/hair

Model how to create a new verse: Ex: We’ll take a little snake and put it in a lake

Write this on chart paper: Oh, a hunting we will go, a hunting we will go. We’ll take a little _____ and put it in a _____ and then we’ll let it go.

Let students pick their favorite animal name from the list and fill in the blanks.

• Closing summary for the lesson  (5 minutes)

Who wants to tell me what we learned today?

-If struggling, ask what box and fox have in common.

We learned about rhyming words. You will come across rhyming words often when you’re reading, and you can use them when you’re writing, or singing!  Next time you read a book, think about the words that rhyme and what other words could rhyme as well.

6) Ongoing-Assessment: I will listen to them when they are doing daily five reading activities and if there are rhyming words I will ask them to identify what they are.

7) Based on what you know about your focus students, what Academic, Social and/or Linguistic Support will be needed during the lesson?

I will help students to create rhyming words if they struggle. Hopefully by singing this will keep them engaged but if they get out of hand I’ll explain to them that we can only complete the activity if they participate and stay focused and listen.