CIDNEY WRISLEY

Man From the Land of Fandango Retell

 

Name: Cidney Wrisley    Time/Lesson Duration: 30 minutes

Date:   10/12/17          Grade: 1/2

 

Central Focus: Retelling a story. 

 

Common Core Language Arts Standard Assessed:

2.RL.1 Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.

 

Learning Targets in Student Language:

 

Content Target: I can describe who, what, where, when and why of a grade level story after listening to it through interactive read-aloud.

 

Language Target: I can use words to describe what happened in a story.

 

Language Demands: Students should be able to use words to describe their thoughts and draw pictures.

 

Language Supports: This book is filled with pictures that are very descriptive to the words. I will have children point to the pictures and ask questions that prompt their content knowledge based off of what is happening in the pictures/text.

 

Key Vocabulary: Retell, interactive, and listening.

 

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LESSON IMPLEMENTATION

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Opening Experience: Show the children the book, explain that this is a special book about a man that comes around once a year. Tell them that we will see what happens when he comes around and when we finish the children will get to write their own version of a page in the story. Describe the learning targets of todays reading. (7 minutes)

 

Stated Purpose to Student: Tell the student the learning targets, "I can describe who, what, where, when and why of a grade level story after listening to it through interactive read-aloud and I can use words to describe what happened in the story." 

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Description of Instructional Strategies & Learning Task:

 

Interactive read-aloud (8 minutes):

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Introduce the story: Title, author, fiction.

 

Read the first page, ask children to turn and talk to explain how they think the man will act.

 

Read the up to third page, “Which one is the bison? Let them point Do you think they dress like that in real life? No Right, probably because this book is fiction so it means it is not real”

 

Read page four, have someone explain what a baboon is. Point to pictures.

 

Read up to page 6 “What are they doing now? What is coming out of the instrument? Would you want to do this with someone” turn and talk

 

Read to page 9: “What do you think will happen next? What do you think their parents would think if they came home? Does this man make a big mess? Will he clean it before he leaves?” They can turn and talk or raise hands

 

Read to last page, have children answer questions listed in the assessments and draw picture that describes what they would be doing on the day the man from the land of fandango pays them a visit.

 

Closure: After I will bring the learning targets back out and ask students if they feel like they were able to describe them for this activity. Ask if they liked the story, if they would like to see something different for the next one.

 

 

Informal Assessments (Formative):

I will ask students about what the story was about and who the main character was. I will ask if they think there would be problems if the man from the land of fandango visited and what they might be. I will ask them to describe what they would do if the man from the land of fandango visited them, and if time they could draw a picture of that.

 

Assessing Student Literacy Learning (Formal Assessment):

The formal assessment will be having students create and describe a picture about what they will do if they get a visit from the man from the land of fandango. This words as a formal assessment because they have to create their own version of a page from the story using the characters and fantasy theme that is used in the book.

 

 

Notes and reflections:  (Take time to write some field notes immediately after teaching.)

             I noticed that this lesson didn’t take as long as I thought it would. Having two students makes teaching go a lot quicker. One thing I noticed was that they were really excited to make connections in the book to experiences they have had in their lives. I tried to listen to their stories because I don’t know them very well, where normally I might ask the students to wait till I finish reading to share. I think creating their own page for the story was a little bit difficult. They were able to draw pictures and include some animals they would want to hang out with as well as the man from the land of fandango so that tells me that they understood the basics of what was happening in the story.

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Note: This lesson was meant for only 2 students and would need changes before implementing in a large group.