Lesson Plan: The Boss

Mike Labagh

Special Education

Lesson Plan: The Boss

Subject:

Fountas and Pinnell Reading Series

Topic:

Drawing conclusions

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 examples, students will know and be able to draw conclusions based on the information or pictures in the 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:

·         Fountas and Pinnell text – The Boss – Book 80 – Level H – fiction

·         Toy Story 3 – movie clip

·         Family Figurines

·         Vocabulary Handout

·         Printables

·         Smart Board

·         Index cards

·         Journals and word bags

·         Pens and Pencils

Motivation:

Teacher will say, “Today we will learn about drawing conclusions. Let’s watch a video clip from Toy Story 3 and predict what will happen. Then we will read a story and draw conclusions from the information in the story. When we are finished, we can act out the story with figurines that look like the characters from the story we are going to read. First though, let’s see what Woody and Buzz are up to and predict what might happen to them.”

Activities:

After the students watch the video clip, they will…..

·         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 examples, students will know and be able to draw conclusions based on the information or pictures in the story.

·         Given extension assignments, the students will know and be able to complete them.

·         Given figurines from the story, the students will know and be able to act out the story.

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

Practice Activity:

After the students read the story, The Boss, they will answer questions given by the teacher. The questions will be based on drawing conclusions. The students can use their text. When they are drawing conclusions, their responses will be based from their level of prior knowledge about a topic. It is important to remember to guide the students as needed, as some students will have more prior knowledge about a subject than other students.

The questions that the teacher will ask from the text are…

1. The story begins on a Sunday morning. Do the students have to go to school? How do you know? Do the parents have to go to work?  (this answer can vary based on the prior knowledge of the student and the role of the parent in the home).

2. Why did the father go to the store to get orange juice?

3. Why do the kids make breakfast?

4. Why did the kids make the mother a card?

5. When mom woke up, was she angry? Would you be angry?

6. What do you do when you are sick? How was it different from the story? What do your parents do when they are sick?

Independent Activity:

The students will answer the 7 drawing conclusions questions. The questions can be read, as the goal is to monitor if the students can draw conclusions. If the students would like to draw a picture with the examples given, they may, however, it is not necessary.

Evaluation:

·         Participation

·         Completed extension activities

·         Completed drawing conclusions activity

Closure:

The teacher will ask the students what the purpose of the lesson was. The students should respond with drawing conclusions. If they do not respond with this, the teacher will guide the students to this response by asking what the activities all related to. The teacher will ask the students what it means to draw conclusions and how one does draw conclusions. The teacher will then give the following sample to the students and ask them to draw conclusions based on the oral information:

The teacher came to work late. He spilled his water in the classroom on the student’s work he intended to give them. He ripped his pants on the corner of a desk. When he tried to turn on the computer in the classroom, it froze, and then he was called to Mr. Goggin’s office (the principal).

How was the teacher’s day? Was it….

a. good

b. terrible

c. awesome

d. entertaining

The teacher will ask the student’s how they were able to draw conclusions to answer this question.

Assessment:

Assessments are on-going. The students will have to draw conclusions throughout their academic and personal journeys in life. Drawing conclusions is an integral part of reading comprehension as well, and the students will be assessed on this aspect throughout their academic careers in the classroom. This reading component is also on district mandated testing and the Connecticut Mastery Tests.