Thursday, February 19, 2009

Early Lit. lesson plans


Last semester I took Methods of Early Literacy and had the great opportunity to work with students from nearby elementary. Once a week for about six weeks we visited this elementary and worked one on one or on occasion two on one working with the student to improve there reading abilities. In our class we had to come up with one lesson plan per week to use as we taught our child. For my example I am using the very first lesson plan that I wrote up.


Coming up with my first lesson plan, I wasn't sure what to expect. But, to my surprise it went pretty good for my first time. In my first lesson plan I had four things to get through. An interest inventory to get to know my kid better, an interactive read aloud where I would read to him, a informal guided reading where he would read to me a book of his choosing and lastly a writing time where he would write something to his choosing. Some things that went really well was the informal guided reading time. He was really excited to read his book that he chose to read to me. One thing that needed more work was deciding what he was going to write about. He wasn't that thrilled to write at all and I didn't think about ideas before hand that he could write about. He ended up writing what he did that past weekend and it turned out alright.

Somethings that I had changed up and will take into consideration into making lesson plans from here on out is to make sure you have enough to do. It is better to have too much planned than not enough. We got through my lesson plan a lot quicker than expected and we ended up just reading whatever he wanted too. But, from now on I know to add more stuff to my lesson plan and if I don't get to it all that, that's alright. I also made sure I had different ideas that he could write about when we got to that part of the lesson.

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