Monday, March 2, 2015

EDPC-605 Week 6 - Assignment 2



EDPC-605  Week 6 Assignment 2                                          Tim Brown

Learning Task and Assignment#2 Design your lesson using these guiding questions.  Activity-based lesson adjusted to Common Core.

Lesson topic: Identifying the main idea
Grade level: 3
AIM questions:
1.What learning objectives/main ideas do students need to know (maximum of 3)?
Students should know what the 5ws are.  Students should be able to identify the 5 ws in read text. Students should be able to use the 5ws to comprehend what is read. 

2. What common core skills will be introduced or reinforced during the lesson?

3. Which content area standards are addressed in this lesson?


4. What academic and content specific vocabulary is introduced in this lesson?
Illustration   /   text   /   details


5. What materials (e.g. Map, Song, and Activity Sheet) will I present to students?

- Book- Story:  “The Three Little Pigs” - http://www.kidztory.com/the-three-little-pigs
Who, What, Where, Why, When, How – Slide Show and Activity - http://www.slideshare.net/jonesy2008/what-are-the-5-ws-presentation
Who, What, Where, When, Why – Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vevPTvX1IKI
Article “More Chores, Fewer Allergies” by By Zachary Humenik - http://www.timeforkids.com/news/more-chores-fewer-allergies/217436


6. How will I open the lesson (motivation) and capture student interest?
Start with discussing a well-known story that all of the class is familiar with e.g. “The Three Little Pigs”.  Students would take turns participating in the reading of the story.
Identify the 5 Ws. 


7. What additional individual/team/full class activities will I use to help students discover what they need to learn (suggest three)? If these are group activities, how will student groups be organized?

A-   We would watch the Who, What, Where, When, Why, How presentation as a group.

B-    We would discuss, as a group, the presentation.

C-    We would watch the Who, What, Where, When, Why Video.

D-   We would discuss, as a group, the video.

E-    Individually, the students would complete the Who, What, Where, When, Why, How, worksheet.

F-    We would then revisit the story of “The Three Little Pigs”, this time looking for the Who, What, Where, When, Why, and How within the story. 

G-   Now I will introduce an article – “More Chores, Fewer Allergies” by By Zachary Humenik


Using a “Close Reading Process” we would
-         Read through the article to get the flow from beginning to end.
-         Read through the second time, this time students are annotating it in several different ways by circling important and unfamiliar words. 
-         Then they write the gist for each section or paragraph in the margin.  Go through section by section and try to understand paragraph by paragraph. 
Individually, students will write a summary of what they believe is the gist/ main idea of the article.
In small groups they will share and compare their summaries – asking questions of students in their group about their different opinions of what the main ideas are. 
Finally, as a class we summarize the main ideas as interpreted through the What, Where, When, Why, How process. 




8. How will I differentiate instruction with multiple entry points for diverse learners?

The reading of the book “The Three Little Pigs” and the article “More Chores, Fewer Allergies” uses the Linguistic intelligence.

The video and music contained in the video use the Musical and Visual – Spatial Intelligences.

The activity sheet uses the Logical and Intrapersonal Intelligences.

The individual written summary and the “Close Reading Process” use the Linguistic and Intrapersonal Intelligences.

The small group and entire classroom discussions use the Interpersonal Intelligence. 


9. What H.O.T. (Higher Order Thinking) questions will I ask to engage students in analysis and discussion?

What other materials might you build your house with? 
What allergies do you have?
What chores do you do at home?


10. How will I assess student mastery of the skills, concepts and content taught in this lesson?

Informal Assessment is derived from the reading of the story and article as well as classroom discussions.
Formal Assessment is derived from homework assignment and text using an article to determine if the students can summarize the main idea of an article using the 5 ws.


11. How will I bring lesson to closure (summary questions)?

What are the 5ws?
What is another question that could be added to the 5ws to help us think more about certain topics? (How?)

12. How will I reinforce and extend student learning?
Classroom application/follow up
·  Each student would write their own story or article.  They would then exchange stories/articles and summarize the main idea of the story/article they received.  Finally they would discuss their findings and compare with the author.


Homework
I would give a different article to read and ask the students to list the 5ws and summarize the main idea. 


13. What topics come next?
“How?” - The forgotten question.  We would discuss the fact that sometimes it is possible and useful to include “How” to the 5ws to expand on a summary. 

Tomorrow?
Choose articles where “How” would be applicable.

Day after?
Write, share, and compare stories where the 5ws and “How” are applied.

14. How do I evaluate this lesson?

Strengths, Weaknesses, Areas to work on, Things to change
I evaluate this lesson by looking at the responses from the students with each part of the lesson.  I am looking at what they responded to most, what they responded to least, and what was most and least effective.  The answers to these questions define the lessons strengths, weaknesses, areas to work on, and things to change.  

Here is the link to the same material on DropBox  

2 comments:

  1. Tim,
    Your lesson plan is easy to read and follow. I like that you incorporated the close reading strategy to teach main idea. Very Nice!

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  2. Good job Tim! I did the 5 ws too. :) Love the 3 little pigs!

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