Animals with Wings Lesson Plan

Mike Labagh

Lesson Plan

Animals with Wings

Subject

Fountas and Pinnell

Topic

Summarizing

Objectives

·         Given vocabulary, the students will participate and practice new vocabulary words in the story by giving an example of each word in a sentence of their own.

·         Given a text, the students will complete a picture walk and make oral predictions about what may happen in the text or what the text is mainly about.

·         Given the text, the students will complete a read aloud of the text in small groups.

·         Given a story, the students will know and be able to answer the who, what, when, where, why, and how in their summary of a story.

·           Given a text, the students will know and be able to read it while participating in a running record assessment.

Methods

·         Direct instruction – small group

·         Modeling

·         Guided practice

·         Application

·         Assessment

Materials

·         Duck feathers

·         A stuffed raven (taxidermy)

·         Fountas and Pinnell text, Animals with Wings, nonfiction – Book 120, level L

·         Fountas and Pinnell word bags and journals

·         Pens and Pencils

·         Printables

·         Vocabulary Handout

Motivation

Teacher will say, “Today we will learn about birds and about summarizing texts. As we learn about birds, we will learn how to summarize a story and pull out the most important parts of the story. And speaking about birds, does anyone know what animal this feather belongs to?” (The teacher will have a duck feather and the students can guess which animal it belongs to.

Activities

·         Given vocabulary, the students will participate and practice new vocabulary words in the story by giving an example of each word in a sentence of their own.

·         Given a text, the students will complete a picture walk and make oral predictions about what may happen in the text or what the text is mainly about.

·         Given the text, the students will complete a read aloud of the text in small groups.

·         Given a story, the students will know and be able to answer the who, what, when, where, why, and how in their summary of a story.

·           Given a text, the students will know and be able to read it while participating in a running record assessment.

·         The students will complete related extension activities as well as feel a raven that was stuffed by a taxidermist.

Practice Activity

After the students finish reading the story, they will be given a graphic organizer. The graphic organizer is broken into 3 parts, one section for notes, one for drawing a picture, and one for writing a summary. The students will complete this graphic organizer for the robin, the penguin, the bat, and the duck from the story. The teacher will guide. The teacher will reread the first section of birds; the robin. The teacher will write notes about the important details after he has read it to the students. The teacher will draw a picture of the robin and explain to the class what the robin is doing. The teacher will then write 1 sentence to summarize what the text told about robins. The students will work on the next section; the duck. The teacher will continue to guide and answer any questions and leave the completed graph about the robin open for viewing. After the teacher has reviewed the duck section, the students will complete the penguin and bat sections independently, but still remain at the reading table for monitorization from the teacher. Once all four sections are completed and reviewed, the teacher will give the students an option of what printables they would like to complete on summarization.

Independent Activity

The students will choose which 2 of the three printables on summarizing. 2 are equal in length, while one explores all of the avenues of summarizing (this one will be required). The students will complete the printables, either independently or with one other person. If they choose to work with another student, only one printable needs to be returned to the teacher with both names written at the top. 

Evaluation

·         Participation

·         Completed extension lessons

·         Completed summarizing activities

Closure

The teacher will ask the students to summarize the purpose of the lesson. The teacher will guide the students as they are responding. The teacher will then review the concept of summarizing for the students and remind them where they might see summarizing, such as on video games (the introduction), on the news, in the newspaper, in the beginning of a television show that is recapping what occurred before, and  highlights of a sporting game.

Assessment

Assessments are on-going. Summarizing will appear again throughout the Fountas and Pinnell series, on DRA’s and on the CMT’s, as well as in future grade level work.