OUR LADY QUEEN OF MARTYRS SCHOOL WEEKLY LESSON PLAN
Teacher’s Name ___Elizabeth Rodriguez___________________ Subject ____Reading___________________________ Grade _______Pre-K 2___________
Week of __2/3/14 - 2/7/14____________________________ Unit _____6______ Week______1______
Unit Title____The Nightingale_____________ Essential Question__How can illustrations help us understand story characters?_______________
| CCSS Code e.g. RL.K.5 | OUTCOMES (Lesson Focus) What will the students know or be able to do at the end of the lesson? | ASSESSMENT How will the students demonstrate that they have accomplished the desired outcome? Please state the question that will be asked during your formative assessment. | STRATEGIES In what activities will the students be engaged to accomplish the desired outcome? Please list in the order that you will implement. | 3 HOTS QUESTIONS e.g. one should be on knowledge, one on application, and one on synthesis or evaluation. |
Mon
| RL.PK.1 RL.PK.4 RI.PK.7 RF.PK.2 SL.PK.2 W.PK.3 | Phonemic Awareness: Children will recognize rhyming words. High Frequency Words: Children will learn to read the word “find.” Vocabulary: Children will understand story vocabulary. Comprehension: Children will listen for a purpose. Children will understand characters. Children will use illustrations. Children will determine important ideas. | Who were the main characters in the story? | - Morning Message - Sight word “find” - Whole Group: Match rhyming words. - Independent Practice: Create a heart person and use rhyming pictures to match and glue on the heart. - Whole Group: Build vocabulary and background on words: nightingale, jewels, emperor, palace. - Read Aloud - Whole Group: Discuss the story and use illustrations to answer comprehension questions. - Independent Practice: Draw a picture about your favorite part of the story. | - What did the emperor want? - How did the noble people feel when they first saw the nightingale? Why? - What did the real nightingale promise the emperor at the end of the story? - Do you think that was a good solution? Why or why not? |
Tues
| RL.PK.1 RL.PK.4 RI.PK.7 RF.PK.2 SL.PK.2 L.PK.6 | High Frequency Words: Children will learn to read the word “me.” Vocabulary: Children will understand story vocabulary. Comprehension: Children will listen for a purpose. Children will follow oral directions. Children will use illustrations. Emergent Writing: Children will dictate phrases about favorite places. | Where did the nightingale feel happy and free? | - Morning Message - Sight word “me” - Independent Practice: Complete writing activity for sight words “find” and “me.” - Whole Group: Build vocabulary and background on words: nightingale, jewels, emperor, palace. - Read Aloud - Guided Reading: Read Along story using individual books. - Guided Practice: Have the children use the illustrations to understand story details. - Guided Practice: Provide a sentence starter about their favorite places and have children dictate words as I write them. | - Why do you think the artist drew a picture that showed nighttime? - How did the emperor feel in the illustration on p. 10? - Was the real nightingale happy living in the palace? Why or why not? |
Wed
| RL.PK.1 RL.PK.4 RL.PK.7 RL.PK.9 RI.PK.7 SL.PK.2 RF.PK.1 RF.PK.2 RF.PK.3 L.PK.2 | Phonemic Awareness: Children will recognize rhyming words. High Frequency Words: Children will learn to read the word “not.” Comprehension: Children will listen for a purpose. Children will use illustrations. Children will understand characters. Phonics: Children will identify capital L, M, N and lowercase l, m, n. Children will identify letter sounds /l/, /m/, /n/. | Use the word “not” in a sentence. | - Morning Message - Sight word “not” - Pair Share: Pairs of children will provide pairs of rhyming words. - Read Aloud: Another Version of “The Nightingale” - Whole Group: Use illustrations to answer comprehension questions. - Whole Group: Smartboard activity - Have volunteers identify letters and initial sounds for letters Ll, Mm, and Nn. - Independent Practice: Use blackboards to write uppercase and lowercase Ll, Mm, Nn. | - Where in the alphabet can we find letters L, M, N? - Which pictures have beginning sounds /l/, /m/, /n/? - What did you like about reading another version of “The Nightingale?” |
Thurs
| RL.PK.1 RL.PK.4 RL.PK.9 RL.PK.10 RI.PK.7 RF.PK.2 | Phonemic Awareness: Children will recognize rhyming words. Comprehension: Children will compare two versions of a story. Children will understand characters. Children will determine important story details. | How were the two stories similar and different? | - Morning Message - Whole Group: Use smartboard activity to match rhyming words. - Guided Practice: Retell two versions of the story “The Nightingale” and create a T-chart to compare and contrast the two stories. - Independent Practice: Fold a paper in half. On each side draw a picture of your favorite character from each story. | - Why did the emperor want the nightingale? - How did the nightingale feel in the cage and why did she feel that way? - If you could change the ending of one of the versions we read, how would the story end? |
Fri
| RF.PK.1 RF.PK.2 RF.PK.3 L.PK.2 | Phonemic Awareness: Children will recognize rhyming words. Phonics: Children will identify words beginning sounds /l/, /m/, /n/. | Name three words that begin with the sounds /l/, /m/, and /n/. | - Morning Message - Whole Group: Use smartboard activity to match rhyming words. - Guided Practice: Recite Letter Jingles L, M, N. and play a beginning sound game. - Small Group: Draw pictures of objects with beginning sounds /l/, /m/, /n/. | - What do you listen for when you are rhyming words? - Why do we need to know the sounds the letters make? - Look around the classroom and find two objects that rhyme. |
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| Bloom’s Taxonomy (HOTS Questions) -Knowledge -Comprehension -Application -Analysis -Synthesis -Evaluation | School Grade Weighting Scale: Tests (40%): Quizzes (20%): Classwork/ Participation (15%): Homework (5%): Projects/ Portfolios (20%):
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| Use of Technology: __*__ Smartboard ____ Student Response System |