Lesson Plan Primary Small Group

Year: 3 Learning Area: English

Date: 18/8/14 Lesson Focus: Interpreting, analysing and evaluating.

Background Information:
Small Group Jack, Ruby, Orion, Caleb.
When reading aloud it is common for this group of students not to use punctuation resulting in the
misinterpretation of a text
Students in the group display varying processing and anxiety difficulties
One student was home schooled in New Zealand prior to attending the state school.

Teaching/Learning Purpose:
To enable learners to use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning and begin
to evaluate texts by drawing on a growing knowledge of context, text structures and language
features(ACELY1680)
To enable learners to locate information in a text to substantiate an answer using full sentence
structures.


Preparation:
Resources: 3 x reptile books, Pipe cleaners, Glue, googly eyes, coloured paper, pencils, sticky tape,
Develop questions to guide students learning
Research chameleon activity and print instructions attempt to make one first
Walt and Waif resources - What am I learning today/What am I looking for
Curiosities and wonderings





Learning Experiences:
1. How will I engage the learners
By having fun, being enthusiastic, treating the students with respect, giving the students the
opportunity to collaborate with the teacher and each other, using the white board as a
visual aid, and asking open ended questions.


2. Student tasks and activities
0-5minutes Discuss with students what they will be learning today write this on the
whiteboard. Outline the expectations and tasks/activities they will be doing. Ask students to
write down any curiosities or wondering on the whiteboard.

5-10 minutes - Each student is to read a section of the text aloud. P21 Rattlesnakes
Students are given the opportunity to answer 3 questions

Tell me, in your own words, what is this article about?
What do rattle snakes eat?
How would you describe the rattle snakes tail to someone who has not read this text?
Where is the Aruba Island Rattlesnake found?

10-15 minutes - Each student is to read a section of the text aloud. P14 Chameleons
Students are given the opportunity to answer 3 questions

Tell me, in your own words, what is this article about?
What do chameleons eat?
What is the definition of camouflaged?
Where is the Jacksons chameleon found?

3. Conclusion 15-25minutes
Each student has the opportunity to create their own chameleon out of pipe cleaners.
Answer any curiosities or wonderings
Revisit Walt and Wilf and ask the students to share what they have learned and point out
the learning that has occurred in the lesson.








Assessment:

Were all children able to locate information in a text to substantiate an answer using full sentence
structures?
I will find this out by asking the children a serious of questions after they have read the text.



Reflection/Evaluation
I was really excited that the children had curiosities that they wrote down in regards to the text
that they were reading that was not relevant to the task that was assigned.
The timing of the activity was over by roughly 10 minutes. Had I written times into the first draft of
the lesson plan I would have had a better overview of this. What I wasnt expecting was the difficulty
some students had with reading the text and manipulating the pipe cleaners. I felt this was what
contributed to the lesson going overtime.
My Lesson could have been even better if we could have researched the questions the students had
at that time that I was unable to answer.