OCOP Lesson Plan Grade Level: 1st Grade

Strand of the Common Core: Reading Standards for K-5: Grade 1: 1-3 (http://www.corestandards.org/assets/CCSSI_ELA%20Standards.pdf)

NETS-T Standard: II-A: Teachers plan and design effective learning environments and experiences supported by technology. Teachers: A. design developmentally appropriate learning opportunities that apply technology-enhanced instructional strategies to support the diverse needs of learners (http://www.iste.org/docs/pdfs/nets_for_teachers_2000.pdf?sfvrsn=2)

Objective For this Particular Lesson: Find an e-book that is grade level appropriate for your whole class. Use the projector to display the book. Interactive reading for the classroom, helping the students better comprehend books they read by challenging them with questions as a group. The use of an e-book put on the projector for the whole class to see and interact together with. Bounce creativity off of each other and physically see the book blown up on the screen.

Materials: One computer One projector and speakers

A book 30 students

Agenda for Lesson: I. Warm-up exercise of prediction of the title and front cover II. Read through half the story and then stop, ask questions what will happen next III. After reading the book, talk about the characters and setting and overall story for comprehension

Planned Activities Warm Up: Display the title and cover page of the book on the projector from your computer. Have the students write down their predictions of what they think the story will be about and why they think that.

Rationale/Why? Prediction is a good way for students to get creative and have deep thought about a story. As the teacher you can also bring the fact about judging a book by its cover in this situation.

Lesson: Read through the first half of the story (discussing pictures and ideas along the way), it would be nice to have students come up to the screen and use a pointer and read to their classmates as well. After getting half way through the story stop and ask the students to talk in groups

This interactive read aloud really gets the students thinking about the story and excited to see what it going to happen next. Having them take turns reading helps their skills and keeps them

to see if what they predicted was correct so far. After group work, come back as a class and ask the students to make new predictions out loud of what they think will happen next. Even show a few pictures of the upcoming pages to help their predictions. Continue reading the story or having students come up to the screen and read off the projector. When the story is over, have the students work in groups again and see if their new predictions were correct. Then come back as a class, talk about the setting, characters, and plot of the story as a whole.

motivated to learn. Revisiting the story in the end helps the teacher see what the students comprehended from the lesson and what maybe she can work on with them next lesson.

How will you know what your students learned from your lesson? If the students can answer the challenging questions I ask them before, during and after reading the story. I will know they comprehended the story if they can stay on task and answer the questions related to the setting, characters, and overall plot.