Thelen - Lesson Overview #1

Thelen - READING LESSON OVERVIEW #1
I have three focus students who are at a range of ability when it comes to Language Arts. They each have their own strong points and weaknesses and I chose each of them to see how they would do while completing my two lessons because they cover aspects that are very different from each other. My first lesson focuses on vocabulary words and I chose that topic because one of my focus students struggles to use the vocabulary words in a manner that portrays its meaning. My second and third focus students are usually pretty good at vocabulary words and do not have a problem using them correctly in a sentence; however, they sometimes have a little trouble when it comes to discussing them and formulating their own definitions of the word.
This lesson does not directly relate to any of the readings, but can relate to the two comprehension articles by Stahl and Neufeld. How well a child learns the vocabulary word and its meaning will affect how well they are able to comprehend the word and meaning and then use the word in their own sentence. Similarly, the student will have to take what they know of the vocabulary word to formulate and discuss the word’s meaning in their own words. In order to accomplish all of the these tasks, the student will have had to take the word, process its meaning, and be able to relate it to their prior knowledge and schema to form their own definition of the word as well as use it in a sentence they thought of. Even though the articles stress the importance of comprehension through reading texts, a lot of the same main ideas of comprehension apply to this lesson. Their understanding of these words will increase their reading comprehension later on.