Lesson 1- First Day

Lesson Plan 1

Emily Bowers

March 29, 2016

Objective: Good readers can use what they know about letters and letter sounds to spell unfamiliar words. Good readers can write about a text they read.

Assessment: Elementary Spelling inventory, writing about text student reads during this time

Procedures:

Opening: “Good readers are able to use what they know about letters and letter sounds to spell words that might be unfamiliar to them. Today I am going to ask you to spell a few words for me. Another thing good readers can do, is write about a text they read. After I ask you to spell a few words, we are going to read to each other and write about it.”

Procedures:

1.      Give student interest inventory to complete. Student will fill this out on their own, but we can talk about them/their answers as it is being completed.

2.      Give student Elementary Spelling Inventory. Student will write out the words on a piece of paper and receive no assistance in trying to spell them.

3.      Listen to student read from a text they brought. If they did not bring their own text, listen to student read from a text you brought. You may also read to the student.

4.      Have student write on a piece of paper a response to the book. This could be a summary, a reaction to how it made them feel, or a prediction on what could happen next. This will depend on what student chooses to read.

Closing: “Today you took a spelling inventory. This will help me to get to know you better. Spelling is important because good readers are able to use letters and letter sounds to spell words. Spelling words helps with reading. Today you also wrote a response to what we read. This is also important because good readers can write about a text they read.

Today I met with my student for the first time. She was very talkative and I think we are going to get along well. the objective for today's lesson was "Good Readers can use what they know about letters and letter sounds to spell unfamiliar words." Today I gave my student the Elementary Spelling Inventory. Going into this, I only knew her reading level. Based off of that, she did a lot better than I expected her to on this spelling inventory. She got 12 out of 21 words correct. The words that she got right, I could tell she was the most confident in spelling them. The words she misspelled, I could tell because she was hesitant to start writing something down. Based off of the interest inventory I gave McKenzie, I can tell that she really like the American Girl series of both books and movies. Today was mainly a day for us to get to know each other and a time for me to gather information about McKenzie so next time I can have a lesson that will be beneficial to her and her needs as a reader.

In my struggling readers class, we have learned that when students are struggling with pronouncing a word during reading, you aren't supposed to tell them the word right away. I struggled with this a lot today. While McKenzie was reading to me, their were a lot of words she struggled with and it was hard for me to not automatically tell her what they were. Towards the end of the lesson I was getting better at not telling her right away, but as a teacher, this is something I will continue to work on. After working with our student, we had to analyze how they did on the spelling inventory by using the feature guide to see exactly where their spelling went wrong. This was a really cool experience to have and as a tutor (teacher) for McKenzie, helped me know where to go during out next meeting.