EDUC 586 Literacy in the Secondary School Lesson Plan #2:
INTRODUCTION:
During the Spring of 2015, I took a class titled Educ 586: Literacy in the Secondary School. We were asked to create two lesson plans using activities from Doug Buehl's Classroom Strategies for Interactive Learning. The following artifact contains seven mini-lessons completed with my fifth grade students in which we use a Character Analysis Grid to analyze our read aloud text.
STANDARDS:
Wisconsin Teaching Standards
Standard 1: Teachers know the subjects they are teaching.
Standard 3: Teachers understand that children learn differently
Standard 4: Teachers know how to teach
Standard 5: Teachers know how to manage a classroom
Standard 7: Teachers know how to plan different kinds of lessons
International Reading Association Standards
IRA Standard 2: Candidates use instructional approaches, materials, and an integrated, comprehensive, balanced curriculum to support student learning in reading and writing.
IRA Standard 5: Candidates create a literate environment that fosters reading and writing by integrating foundational knowledge, instructional practices, approaches and methods, curriculum materials, and the appropriate use of assessments.
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REFLECTION:
I really enjoyed using the Character Analysis Grid with my fifth graders. I think the analysis was especially effective because our book selection Out of My Mind is a high interest book. I did feel, though, that our sessions did become long, and that when we reached week two with the analysis grid that the kids became a little bored; since I have only such a small amount of time for my mini-lessons, the lessons needed to be broken up into sessions. Nevertheless, I still feel it was effective teaching to walk the kids through each grid section knowing that the students would be eventually asked to analyze one of their own texts with the grid.
