Lesson Plan                                                                                                                                                             Carly Keeley

Unit Topic: Reading and Spelling

Grade: 2^nd Grade

Lesson Theme: Phonics

Lesson Objectives:
The students will be able to help our friend Olivia finish reading her book, “Frog and Toad Together: A List”; by using their knowledge of phonics such as letter substitution and letter deletion to create new words.

The students will also be able to read the text, “Frog and Toad Together” and show that they know how to read and answer questions using the homework sheet and the interactive website.

Instructional Technique:
Students will be able to work in pairs as well as follow along with the teacher. Because some of the questions may have difficult vocabulary for the students, I want to provide a verbal part where the teacher will read the question out loud to the students. The answers are at 2^nd grade reading level, so the students should be able to read the answers on their own. They can work in assigned pairs so that the struggling readers can work with more advanced and at level readers.

After the students have completed the answers we will have a whole class discussion to clear up any confusion or questions that the students have.

Instructional Materials:
“Phonics Pursuit” website (computer)

Overhead projector to project the same image on the big screen

Homework worksheet

“Frog and Toad Together” individual copies for each student

Theoretical Perspective:
This lesson is very important for students to complete because it involves reading and understanding phonics. Phonics is putting sounds with the letters they represent. If students do not know sounds letters make then they will not understand how to read and write properly. This lesson should provide more practice to the students who have some background knowledge about reading and writing. Reading and writing are tasks that students will have to know how to do throughout their 12+ years of schooling and to succeed in the working world.

 Procedure:
First, the teacher and the class will read “Frog and Toad Together by Arnold Lobel. The teacher will start off by reading aloud to the students using a big book. Then the students will receive their own individual copy and read it silently by themselves. This will be the only activity for the first day because students read at different paces and I do not want to overwhelm the readers who struggle. For the faster readers, they may draw a picture about their favorite part when they finish the story. Students may bring these books home to read with their families.

The next day we will talk about the story briefly to see if the students have comprehended the story. Then I will introduce them to the website using the overhead projector and big screen in the front of the classroom.

Then I will assign the students into reading pairs, struggling readers with non-struggling readers. The students will follow along as the teacher reads them the question. Then in pairs, the students will answer the questions. There will be plenty of time given to adequately answer each question. The students will also mark down their first choice answer on a worksheet.

When everyone is finished with the interactive website, the teacher will hand out a homework worksheet for the students to complete at home. They may use the copy of their book.

After the homework has been handed in and collected, we will have a whole class discussion on the story and the questions on the website.

Adaptations:
For the non-native speakers and struggling readers, the teacher will read the questions out loud to the whole class. This way those students will not have to read the text by themselves to try and figure out the more advanced text used in the question. Students will also get to work in assigned pairs so that if they get stuck on choosing an answer they can ask their partner, who will be at a higher reading level.

For students who are visually impaired, they will be able to listen to the teacher and their partner and verbal say the answer they think is correct.

For students who are hard of hearing, they can see the text in front of them and ask questions to the teacher if they cannot decode a more advanced word. The teacher can help the student sound it out. This lesson will be a little harder for students who are hard of hearing.

Homework:
Students will be asked to complete a homework worksheet after they have completed the interactive website.

Students will also be asked to mark down their answers as they go through the interactive website.

Evaluation:
The teacher will be able to see if the students have met the objectives stated at the beginning of this lesson because the students have to mark down the answers that they chose first. The teacher will be able to see if the students picked the right or wrong answer. To eliminate students marking down the right answer even if they chose the wrong answer, the one of the students in the pair will be asked to hand in the slip with the question and answer they chose immediately after they pick an answer.

Students will also be asked to complete a worksheet asking questions to see if the students have comprehended the story. The teacher will be able to see if the students understood the story when they hand in their homework worksheet that will ask comprehension questions.

Concerns and questions:
I am concerned that the students will change their answers if I do not collect the answer slips fast enough. Maybe a way to fix that would be to turn this into a game and have two teams where pairs of students come up to the teacher’s computer hooked up to the big screen. This way the teacher and the students will be able to see if they get the correct answer on the first try.

I am also concerned that the questions may be too complicated for second graders vocabulary.