Literacy Lesson
Literacy Lesson
Literacy Lesson
Reading Lesson
1st Grade
UNIT BIG IDEA
What We Value Most!
LESSON RATIONALE
This lesson is important and beneficial because it helps the students learn what it means to make
personal connections to books and how much it helps them understand the reading better,
whether it is fiction of nonfiction. They will see that memorizing is not the only way to
remember what happens in a story but being able to connect to something else helps a lot too.
For the r-controlled vowels aspect, it is important that the students get practice with
differentiating those because they are used all the time in the English language and when
speaking it is hard to know which one is used for what words. Practicing them helps solidify that.
READINESS
I.Goals/Objectives/Standard(s)
A. Goal:
a. For the students to be able to reflect on themselves, what they value, and their
lives while reading the books with me.
b. For the students to practice the r-controlled words for later use.
B. Objective:
a. In reading and analyzing the book the students read with me in small groups, the
students should be able to reflect on themselves and the connections they can
make from the book.
b. In going to the stations and practicing the r-controlled vowels, the students should
be able to demonstrate that they are starting to learn the differences between them.
C. Standard(s):
1.W.6.2c Spelling – • Spelling unknown words phonetically, drawing on phonemic
awareness and spelling conventions. • Correctly spelling words with common spelling
patterns. • Correctly spelling common irregularly-spelled, grade-appropriate high-
frequency words.
1.RL.1 – With support read and comprehend literature that is grade level appropriate.
II. Management Plan:
Time – 1 hour total for the lesson. 45 minutes for guided reading, 5 for anticipatory
set, 3 for whole class instruction, 7 minutes for closure.
Space – The whole classroom will be used. The students will be at their desks, the
stations around the room, and the kidney table with me.
List of materials – Pocket charts, pieces for the word sorts, pieces for the board game
and race to the top, the poem and its pieces, their iPads, the letter from Wing, the
pieces from my favorite holiday, and the half sheets of paper.
Expectations and procedures – The students do not have to be quiet because I want
them to be talking with each other, but they have to keep their inside voices on. While
I am with a group no one is allowed to come up and ask me questions. I will make
sure the directions for each station are clear before they start. The do stations through
times power point slides, so I will be using those and updating them, so they fit my
lesson. Each station is fifteen minutes and then they get 1 minute to clean up and
move to the next station. This will happen three times. Each student will always be
with a partner to help hold each other accountable to be doing what they are supposed
to be doing.
III. Anticipatory Set:
The last time I taught we talked about place value, and the ones place and tens place.
We talked about how important those are to know when we are using numbers and
trying to figure out what they mean. So, if that is so important and cared about so
much in math. What else should we care a lot about? I care about you guys and
making sure you are engaged and enjoying what you are learning. Do any of you
have any ideas about what else we should care about? What do you guys care about?
Raise your hand if you want to answer. I will allow some students to answer my
question. Some of the things that were said, I think I care about too. You guys talked
about things that got me thinking about myself! How crazy is that!
Purpose: Today in reading we will be focusing on making connections and how making
connections can help us show what we care about or VALUE in our own lives. Why does this
matter? Because connections can help us understand what we read better as well as help us
understand each other better and that is always important.