Reading Lesson
Overview
For my reading lessons I have
decided to focus on comprehension. I am going to work with two first graders,
Mike and Kim. Mike is a struggling reader. From the times that I have heard him
read he is very robotic and tends to guess what words are. He is currently
seeking extra reading help, and I was told they are really working on his
comprehension. I figured Mike would be a great candidate for this lesson. Kim
on the other had is an average reader for her grade. She knows her sight words
and her fluency is decent. While reading I have noticed that she depends on the
pictures to help her comprehend. I want to cover up the pictures and have Kim visualize
the text. I will see if she is still able to understand it without having pictures
to reference to. She also tends to forget
some of the main point in a book. So
with these two lesson plans I hope to teach her new ways to comprehend. When I
talked to my mentor teacher she said that they had never really worked on
visualization or prediction. I thought this would be a great opportunity to
teach them a new way to comprehend.
My
first lesson will help them with comprehension. I want them to start
visualizing what they are reading. They depend so much on the pictures to help
them read and I want to see if they are able to comprehend when they are not
there. I also want to see how much of the text they can remember without the
pictures helping them.
For my second lesson we will work
on predicting and will be creating a literature web. I got the idea for this
lesson from the Stahl reading. The basic
plot points of a short story will be on index cards and I will have the
students try to order them before I read and after. Seeing the main points
before I read will give them an idea of what the book is about and help them
comprehend. Reorganizing the point after I read will help me assess what they
remembered.
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