Rubrich Reflection #2

Reading Lesson Reflection: Predicting

For this lesson it was predominantly run by Kim. As much as I tried to give Mike an option to answer the questions Kim would jump in and answer it for him. This proved to be very frustrating because when Mike would answer it would be completely wrong, to the point where I knew he wasn't even trying. I thought that allowing Kim to answer would show him how he should be thinking about it. For the initial prediction portion of the lesson Kim understood what to do but I don’t know if I could say the same for Mike. He was extremely distracted during this lesson and had no idea what was going on. Eventually after I read the book and we tried to reorganize them. Mike had a better understanding this time. Even though he was still distracted he knew which note cards had to be moved because they were in the wrong place. Kim also had a better understanding too.

I think one of the strengths of this lesson is, ordering the cards before you read. It gives the students a clue as to what the book is going to be about and gives them a heads up of what they need to be looking for. This is very helpful for their comprehension. One of the limitations of my lesson was the fact that I had too many index cards. They were focusing so much on just reading the cards that by the time they finished reading them all they couldn't remember what they said. I think that next time I should have fewer cards or at least fewer words on the cards. This lesson is based more on comprehension then the actual reading.

Again I noticed myself not really knowing how to keep a very distracted student focused. I should have had a better hook into this activity so that he was actually interested in what we were doing. This is definitely something that I need to be working on. When I have a student in my class who has trouble focusing I need to make sure I have a way to keep them involved. I need to know their likes and dislikes so that I can plan a lesson to fit their needs.