Lesson+Plan+2+and+Reflection

Rationale Standards Objective Materials Procedure Differentiation Future Connections
 * Guided Reading- Book Club**
 * The purpose of this guided reading lesson is for the students to start reading their series and practice more with inside characteristics and reasons to support their answers.
 * RL.2.7. Use information gained from the illustrations and words in a print or digital text to demonstrate understanding of its characters, setting, or plot.
 * Students will be able to identify inside characteristics of a character within a text and provide evidence to support their answers.
 * T-chart
 * //PINKY and REX and the BULLY// by James Howe
 * Pen or Pencil
 * First I will ask the //Pinky and Rex and the Bully// series group to come to the carpet for their book club session.
 * Then I will introduce what we are going to do. //We are going to continue reading your series book Pinky and Rex and the bully. However I want us to focus on getting to know the characters during this book club session. As we read I want us to find the inside characteristics and reasons to support our answers of particular characters. For example I picked the bully, Kevin, as the character I want to focus on. I made a t-chart for Kevin and the inside characteristic I put on there is mean. Kevin is mean because he pushed Pinky off his bike and called him a Sissy and a girl. I want one partner group to focus on Rex and the other partner group to focus on Pinky.//
 * After giving the example, I will begin by having the students take turns reading.
 * After each chapter that we get through I will see if the students picked up on the characteristics. //What characters are in this chapter? What are some of the inside characteristics of the characters in this chapter and reasons to support your answer? Is your character in this chapter if so I will give you a T-chart to write the trait and the evidence?//
 * Then we will continue reading as a group. At the end of the next chapter I will allow the students to fill out their T-charts.
 * To close the lesson, I will go over the focus of our book club session and have students explain their T-charts.
 * //When reading a book especially a series it is important to get to know the main characters involved! It is important to get to know the characters so you will be able to comprehend the book. What are the inside characteristics as partners you got so far about your character that I assigned you?//
 * There won’t be a lot of differentiation in this lesson because this an assigned group with around the same reading level.
 * This will be connected to future lessons about series books and doing more practice with identifying characteristics of a character and reasons to support their answers.



Reflection My guided reading/book club lesson was taught on April 24th, 2012. The objective of this lesson was to continue having the students work with series and to be able to identify inside characteristics of a character and provide reasons to support their answers. The objectives of this lesson were met by the students because they provided explanations at the end of the lesson about the character’s characteristics and gave reasons why this characteristic describes them as well as the information they wrote down on their T-charts. The lesson succeeded because the students seemed to understand to focus on traits of a character and support why and the students took turns reading fluently. The lesson was missed because the students were laying down on the carpet and being fidgety as well as getting off task at some points throughout the lesson. However the students were engaged in the book club lesson by paying attention to when it was their turn to read and participating in answering the questions I asked during and after the chapters. The students were also engaged during their partner share when I asked them to think about the characteristics of certain characters in the book. If this were my classroom the next lesson I would do is continuing with the series book and focus more on the characteristics of the characters throughout the whole book. The few things I would do differently if I could teach this lesson again is explain to the students more about what inside characteristics are so they aren’t confused about what is expected. I also would have them work at the back table instead of the carpet because it was too much of a distraction for two of the students in the reading group. Furthermore I would put post its on certain pages in my copy of the series’ book //Pinky and Rex and The Bully// to be able to know when to stop and discuss certain things in the chapters that are important or words the students do not know. By reflecting on this lesson I’ve learned some of my strengths and weaknesses of instructing a group in guided reading/book club that will be helpful in the future to be able to better my lessons and be the most effective teacher in early literacy as I can be.