Student Teaching edTPA Lesson Plan Template

Subject: Reading Central Focus: Myths

Essential Standard/Common Core Objective:CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.3.2Recount stories, including fables, folktales, and myths from diverse cultures; determine the central message, lesson, or moral and explain how it is conveyed through key details in the text.CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.3.10By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poetry, at the high end of the grades 2-3 text complexity band independently and proficiently.

Date submitted to clinical teacher: 3/13/14Date taught: 3/18/14

Daily Lesson Objective: After reading and discussing The Gift of Light, students will answer six comprehension questions getting 4/6 of them right.

21st Century Skills: Academic Language Demand (Language Function and Vocabulary):Language Demand: ComprehensionVocabulary:Myths- ancient stories that focus on good and evil

Prior Knowledge: Students will know what folktales and legends are, and have an idea about what a myth might be. Students will know that myths are a type of story as well.

Activity Description of Activities and Setting Time

1. Focus and Review

Gather the students on the carpet and ask if they remember how we’ve been learning about folktales. Say: I remember some of you talking last week about gods and goddesses and myths. Can anyone give me a few characteristics of a myth? What is a myth? Make a list of student ideas on the board as they tell you.

3 minutes

2. Statement of Objective for Student

“Today, we’re going to be learning about myths by reading a myth and answering a few questions about it!”

Less than one minute

3. Teacher Input I will explain to the class the characteristics of a myth. Ancient stories Characters are non-human. Typically gods or goddesses, but not

always. Promotes social action. Provides lessons about good and bad

behavior. Often deal with the creation of the world and natural events. People

always want to know who made the universe. Myths were created

10 minutes

by people who tried to answer that question.

The students will watch a video on King Midas. Before watching the video, I will explain that this is a myth about King Midas who wanted to be rich and have gold. The link to the video is:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_9iornHTA8#aid=P9-GL3IzVOA

After watching the video, I will ask students to tell me how they knew that this story was a myth. (It deals with gods, has good and evil, etc.)

4. Guided Practice

We will read the story “The Gift of Light” by Jeanette Cannon as a class. It is one of their Read to Achieve passages, and will also give them practice for the EOG testing. Have them volunteer read the story aloud. As we read the story, I will ask questions like:

Paragraph 1- What is the meaning of Inuit? Paragraph 1- When it says far north, where is that talking about? Paragraph 2- “We have been talking about courage in class this

month. Crow showed courage by flying through the darkness to find light.”

Paragraph 4- What might that reason be? Paragraph 6- Crow has power over the girl, doesn’t he? Paragraph 7- What did crow whisper? (You want to take the

light outside) Paragraph 8- How did crow get the light? Paragraph 10- “Imagine having darkness for six months and

light for six months. Paragraph 11- What is the meaning of the word thankful?

After we read the story, we will talk about the main ideas and what makes it a myth.

20 minutes

5. Independent Practice

The students will answer the comprehension questions on the back of the article individually. If they have questions, they may raise their hands and ask for guidance. If they finish early, they are to work on their time for kid’s assignments or other unfinished assignments.

15 minutes

6. Assessment Methods of all objectives/skills:

Formative: Teacher questioning throughout the lesson.Summative: Collect students’ answers and determine mastery based on criteria.Criteria:

Student gets 4 out of 6 of the answers correct.

7. Closure I will collect student work and review with them the answers as a class, asking the students why the certain answers are correct.

2 minutes

8. Assessment Results of all objectives/skills:

Summative: 4 students got 6/6 answers correct 7 students got 5/6 answers correct 6 students got 4/6 answers correct 3 students got 3/6 answers correct 1 student got 2/6 answers correct

Targeted Students Modifications/Accommodations Student/Small Group Modifications/Accommodations

ELL students—partner with each other to read questions and possible answer choices aloud, but answer them on their own.EC student—allow him to work on his own, but to ask the teacher if he needs help pronouncing a word or sentence.

For students who finish early, they are to work on their Time for Kids article assignments.

Materials/Technology:“The Gift of Light” worksheetSMART boardPencilsYouTube video

Reflection on lesson:

I feel like this lesson went really well! I gathered the students on the carpet and began by talking about learning about legends the week before. I think making this connection really engaged them! They got excited when I told them we were talking about gods and goddesses. We talked about the characteristics of myths and wrote them on a chart with other folktales. We then watched the King Midas video as a class. As the video went on, I stopped to ask questions throughout the video which I hadn’t planned to do. I asked students what the word “boon” meant by using context clues in the video. After the video was over, we discussed how it showed the characteristics of a myth. Reading the story and connecting it to a myth went very well, too. I stopped to discuss with the students as we read through the story to help them better understand it. They loved getting to volunteer read! Their hands shot up every time I asked who wanted to read next. Students worked on the answers independently like they were supposed to. I walked around and helped any students who were struggling. I worked with the EC student one-on-one for a few moments to help him answer the questions as the other students were working. I’m really thrilled about how well this lesson went. I realized that you learn a lot more by actually teaching the lesson and being put in that situation than you do observing. I was really nervous before hand but it came natural to me once I started teaching it. One thing I need to work on is creating appropriate questions to ask to guide students thinking in the right direction. I asked questions during the reading, but I’m sure there are more questions that I could have done with that reading that would have guided their thinking better. I’ve noticed when teaching all of my lessons that questioning is something I need to work on. Overall, I loved this lesson and would definitely implement it in my classroom in the future! I think the students learned a lot and it was a great introduction to myths for them!