NEVADA STATE COLLEGE TEACHER PREPARATION PROGRAMMaria Reyes Small Group Shared Reading Lesson

Description of Classroom:This is a second grade classroom. About 80% of the students are ELL.

Background:Students are learning about punctuation marks and how they affect how you read a story. They are also learning to differentiate a characters dialogue in a story by looking for quotation marks.

Content Objective(s):This will be a small group shared reading lesson and activity on the book Dont Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus By Mo Willems

Language Objective(s):Students will be able to differentiate the change in a characters dialogue when reading out loud and how punctuation marks affect the way you read a dialogue.

Nevada Standards:2. RL.4 Describe how words and phrases supply rhythm and meaning in a story, poem or song. 2.RL.6 Acknowledge differences in the points of view of characters, including by speaking in a different voice for each character when reading dialogue aloud 2.L.2 Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation and spelling when writing 2.L.3 Use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking reading or listening

Key Vocabulary:Dialogue Exclamation mark Question mark Quotation marks

Best Practices: (put an X next to those that you address in your lesson)Preparation Adaptation of content X Links to background Links to past learning Scaffolding X Modeling X Guided practice Independent practice Grouping Options Whole Class X Small groups Partners

X Strategies incorporated Integration of Processes X Listening X Speaking X Reading X Writing

X Verbal scaffolds Procedural scaffolds Application X Hands-on Authentic (Meaningful) Linked to objectives X Promotes engagement

Independent Assessment Individual X Group X Written X Oral

Teaching Strategies:Will read the book Dont Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus Will use different voices for each character and also the different punctuation marks.

Warm Up Activity:Will ask students what are quotation marks and what do they mean

Lesson Sequence:Will ask students what are quotation marks and what do they mean Will present the book Dont Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus Will start reading the book and change my voice according to the text After reading 3 pages I will stop and ask the students why I am changing my voice when I read. Will continue reading the story , I will ask students to read out loud with me the e phrases in the story After reading the story Teacher will review what are quotation marks and punctuation marks with the students As a closing activity the students will get to write an extended ending to the book based On the last picture of the picture of the pigeon imagining a truck They will work as a small group and create a comic book dialogue like the one the book Is based on the book

Supplementary Materials:The book Dont let the Pigeon Drive the Bus By Mo Willems

Accommodations:Reread pages if students misunderstood something Decrease reading passing if I am going to fast

Review/Assessment:After reading the story students shall be able to identify a characters dialogue in a story

and read it out loud according to its punctuation marks. Each student will submit their own extended ending dialogue for the story As a group they students will put together their dialogues and present it to the rest of the class They will get to share the rest of the adventure of the pigeon to their classmates

Reflection:

Maria Reyes Shared Reading Lesson Reflection Questions: What did you teach? I thought a shared reading lesson with the book Hattie and the Fox. The focus of my lesson plan was recognizing when a character was speaking through quotation marks. Another focus of the lesson was to recognize how punctuation marks can affect the way you read out loud a sentence. (If a sentence ended with an exclamation point we would read the sentence with excitement)

What happened during the instruction? (Should include a description of evidence of student learning, modifications you made to your plans in response to students etc.) Before I started reading the book to the students I asked them if they knew what quotation marks were and if they could identify them. They all knew how they looked and they also knew that when they were in a story it meant that a character was speaking. It helped a lot when I started to read the book that the students could already identify when the different characters were speaking. Once I started reading the story out loud I would change my voice for each character depending on the punctuation marks. When I asked the students why I changed my voice their first response was because each character speaks different. That was a good response, but then I asked them if they recognized the punctuation marks at the end of the sentences the different characters said ( ?, !).

When I pointed the punctuation marks out they started making the connection on how those punctuation marks affect how you read a sentence. They knew a lot about the exclamation point most of them agreed that if there was an exclamation point it meant excitement. They had a little more problem with the question mark. To help them understand I asked them if they were lost and were asking for help or directions how would they sound (excited, nervous, talking with little confidence) By asking this question it helped clarify how the dialogue of the characters sounded like with the different quotation marks (.,?,!)

What did you learn? (About self; children; teaching; learning)

Through this lesson I learned the importance of asking questions that make the students think and access their prior knowledge. When I gave the students the opportunity to think a little before answering my questions their answers were more confident. I have come to the conclusion of how important and helpful it is to ask questions that guide the students to the correct answer. By doing this I am not just given them the answer but they get to it by making connections to what they already know.

What next? (Reteach, extend, review, apply, etc.) After I finished reading the book I did a little review activity. I would say a sentence out loud and ask they student to tell me what quotation mark would be at the end. I.e. Where is the school office they would say question mark Im so happy - they would say exclamation point. Over all I think my lesson was a success my students were engaged and by the end of the lesson they knew the difference between the punctuation marks and how they can affect the dialogue of the characters in the story.

One comment my classroom partner had was that I read too fast. That is something I need to work on a lot I am used to reading to just to myself so I read really fast and trying to read aloud to someone else especially students is kind of hard for me because I dont realize how fast I might be going.