LESSON PLAN FORMAT

 

Name (student): Mandy Helmer

 

Lesson title: Skimming and Scanning

 

Circle one:  Small Group

 

LESSON OBJECTIVE: (Be sure to include behavior/content, criteria, and condition)

With teacher direction, the student will use the skim and scan technique to quickly find 10 selected letters, words, and digraphs in a 3 passages.

The student will independently answer two comprehension questions using the selected text with 100% accuracy.

 

IEP GOALS & LESSON OBJECTIVE CORRELATION: (STT only)

Every student in this group has reading goals aimed at increasing reading comprehension and/or fluency.

LESSON SET-UP:

1. How will you get the students’ attention? The students will already be at the table from a previous activity, I will simply say something like, “okay everyone, we’re going to do writing right now.”

 

2. What student behavior(s) do you expect and need to explain? This is a laid-back activity with a small group, so they may answer without raising hands unless I signal. I will tell them that I expect them to follow along and stay on task—work on what we’re doing. They also have a marble jar they recently started and so I will remind them about those behaviors that earn marbles.

 

LESSON OPENING:

1. How will you state the objective to students? I will outline the lesson and what we’re going to do and what we need it for.

 

2. How will you tell students that the objective to be taught is useful and valuable for them to learn?  I will explain that learning to skim text will save time so that they don’t have to go back over a text to find a specific word or phrase.

 

3. How can you tie it to a previous lesson or prior knowledge? I will bring up how frustrating it can be when you need to answer a question and you don’t remember the answer. This skill can save time in having to go back and look for something.

 

LESSON BODY:

1. How will you present and/or demonstrate the information? Involve them all you can, and use visual, auditory, and kinesthetic cues and activities. I will orally give the direction to highlight a group of letters—like  /ch/ or /oo/. Then I will let them have a couple minutes to highlight as many as they can. We will do this a few times, highlighting just letters and pairs, then highlighting whole words, then phrases, and finally, sentences. I will also write what I want them to highlight on the board so they can refer to that and not rely on just hearing it.

 

2. Checking for understanding – how can you quickly see if they are with you and are “getting it”? Since this is a small group, I can quickly look over everyone’s work to make sure they highlight the correct letters. I will also ask for feedback by asking how many they found, signaling how many they found, and by just having them look up at me when finished.  When I know they can do it quickly, we’ll practice with longer combinations and words.  Finally, I will have them give out combinations they want to find.

 

3. Practice – how will they practice and reinforce the lesson? Describe the activity you will use. (Game, experiment, manipulatives, group project, art work, etc.) They will practice the skill by highlighting given words and by answering two comprehension questions regarding the text.  These two questions have the students scan the text for key words that answer the questions.

 

LESSON CLOSING:

How will you bring the lesson to closure? How will you review? How do they know the lesson is almost over?

I will warn them that they have so many minutes to complete their work. I will then collect all materials and wrap up by telling them how we will use this in the future to do reading questions. We’ll talk about how scanning a text for just certain things can save you a lot of time by not having to read everything.

 

EVALUATION OF STUDENT LEARNING:

How will you evaluate student learning? (test, observation, quiz, project, other?)  What will you do if they have not mastered the objective?

I will scan their reading passages as we do the lesson to make sure they ‘get it.’ If they don’t, we’ll keep going and practicing.

I’ll collect their papers and grade based on accuracy and completion.