READ ALOUD LESSON PLAN ​SHAWNA ERGENBRIGHT

BOOK TITLE: The Deaf Musicians

APPLICABLE VA STANDARDS OF LEARNING:
English Standards Music Standards
5.5 The student will read and demonstrate comprehension of 5.5 The student will respond to music with movement by
fictional texts, narrative nonfiction texts, and poetry. 1) performing nonchoreographed and choreographed
b) describe character development movements, including music in duple and triple meters.
c) describe the development of plot and explain the resolutions 5.7 The student will explore historical and cultural aspects of
of conflict(s) music by
i) draw conclusions and make inferences from text 3) describing how people may participate in music within the
community as performers, consumers of music, and music
advocates.
5.10 The student will describe the roles of music and musicians in
society.
5.17 The student will examine factors that may inspire musicians
to perform or compose.
CONTENT OBJECTIVES: TSW ​listen​ to a story read aloud and analyze a different way to perform music.
LANGUAGE OBJECTIVES: TSW will reflect on their experience by writing about it on their exit slip.

KEY VOCABULARY:
jazz style trio quartet
LESSON SEQUENCE:
Pre-Reading/Building Background Knowledge
●TTW explain that today we are going to listen to a story about a man who loses his hearing and learns how
to continue to play music in a different way. ​What would you do if you lost your hearing and couldn’t hear
music anymore? ​TSW popcorn and share their answers with the class.
●TTW will show the cover and the first two title pages. ​Have any of you ever seen or met a deaf person?
How do they communicate with each other? ​TTW call on a hand.
●TTW share that as we read the story, students are to focus on why the author would compose this tale and
what theme we can pull from it.

During Reading
●TTW read the story enthusiastically, giving characters voices, and providing time for students to look at
pictures.
●TTW pause as necessary to ensure student comprehension and to ask questions about the author’s
purpose and theme.
3 – What does the bandmate mean when he said, “…you didn’t answer our notes, man. What’s wrong?”
10 – How do you think Lee will use his sign language for his music?
14 – How are Lee and Max performing their music? What do you think the other people on the subway are
thinking as they watch Lee and Max perform?
21 – What do people think of the quartet’s music? How do you think that makes Lee and his friends feel?
27 – Think about how Lee used to play music in the very beginning of the story. How did he change the way he
makes music? Is it still music? Do you think Lee and his friends’ music inspires people? Does it inspire you?

After Reading
●TTW will turn on some jazz music, and TSW use their hands to make and interpret their own music.
●TSW will then get into small trios and quartets of their own and perform their “sign language” music in
front of the class.
●TSW then write 2 to 4 sentences about how they felt after their performance on an exit slip.