Week 9 - Assignment 3

Candidate’s Name: Malka Wallerstein

Grade Level: 2-3

Title of the lesson: Making connections

Length of the lesson: 60 minutes

Central focus of the lesson (The central focus should align with the CCSS/content standards and support students to develop an essential literacy strategy and requisite skills for comprehending or composing texts in meaningful contexts) Creating a visual of the text to better understand the meaning.

Knowledge of students to inform teaching (prior knowledge/prerequisite skills and personal/cultural/community assets) Reading and comprehending age level texts

Common Core State Standards CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.3.4 Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning word and phrases based on grade 3 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies.

Support literacy development through language (academic language) Describe and explain what you visualize in the text.

Learning objectives Sample: Students will be able to use visual imagery while reading a text. Students will be able to comprehend the text through visualization. Students will know how to use visual imagery to make connections with the text

Formal and informal assessment (including type[s] of assessment and what is being assessed) Informal assessment through class discussion and group posters.

Instructional procedure: The teacher will begin by reading the book “And if The Moon Can Talk” by Kate Banks. The teacher will stop after a few sentences and share with the class what she is visualizing in her head. The teacher will explain which words helped her think of that image. This will show students how the teacher is thinking and visualizing she will then continue reading and pause again. This time she will explain the students how her image is slowly changing as she is reading and finding out more detail. She will ask the students what pictures they have in their mind. The teacher will continue with the book and stop after a sentence filled with imagery. She will ask the students to draw in their reading journals the picture they’ve created in their heads. She will then finish the story and have a discussion of all the visuals they’ve created. They will also speak about how visual images help figure out the meaning of the text. Students will work with a partner and together create a visual Art. This can be done through drawing, a poem, song or skit. Students will create a visual of how they interpreted the text. Students will present their Art to the class.

Instructional resources and materials used to engage students in learning. A copy of the book “And If the Moon Can Talk” By Kate Banks. Posters Markers Scissors Glue Variety of art materials

Reflection I think my Lesson plan helps all types of students learn and we use different multiple intelligences during instruction. I also teaching students how to use visuals when reading a text will help learners that are struggling with comprehension or making connections with the text.

Dr. Hui-Yin Hsu Spring 2014