Wishy Washy Day Lesson Plan

AusVels
Understanding the combination of print and images in texts
Recognise the letters of the alphabet
Visualising elements in a text (drawing a character from a text)
Learning that word order in sentences is important for meaning
Making an inference about a character's feelings
Making links between events in a text and students own experience
Talking about stories and discussing how students feel about what happens in
stories (Reflection)
Learning Focus: Comprehension through reading and understanding sentence
structure as well as identifying missing words in sentences.
Resources: Mrs Wishy Washy Book, Worksheets, pencils, flash cards

Beginning
1. Students to sit on carpet ready for the story
2. Introduce the lesson to the children- we will be reading a story and doing an
activity afterwards
3. Activate prior knowledge from previous reading by introducing the students to
the book that I will be sharing with them.
4. Discuss what they think the book will be about if they have not already seen it.
using pictures to make predictions about story content
5. Then we ask them about farms. Have they ever been to a farm? Do people on
farms wear clothes? What happens when their clothes get dirty?
6. Read book- questioning children throughout to remain engaged
Questions

Reflection on learning (Text to Self & Text to World Connections)

7. Children to reflect on text (reflecting on text allows children to comprehend
written texts)
8. Reflection questions for children
How do you think Mrs Wishy Washy might feel?
How do you think the animals might feel?

Middle
9. Children to move to their desks and work individually on their worksheets
10. Complete worksheet- offer support where needed
End
11. Children to pack up and worksheets to be collected
Reflection on Resource
Mrs Wishy Washy is good for children as its a repetitive, easy to follow text and
supportive pictures make it a perfect choice for beginning readers.
Reflection on Teaching
Lesson didnt go for long enough
Lesson wasnt challenging enough
Needed to better engage children for the reading
As this lesson was my first in this class I was definitely not feeling very confident in
my teaching strategies. The lesson was not as successful as I would have liked as it
did not go for long enough therefore the children were left with nothing to do to
further extend on the activity as I had not considered this option properly so had not
thought of strategies to counteract this possibility. I also felt that the lesson could have
been much more challenging; I should have been better prepared to cater for the wide
developmental abilities in the room.
Needed to engage the children better at the beginning of the lesson and ensure that
children were showing their 5Ls.
Next time I need to have many more teaching and behavioural management strategies
available to me to create more effective and flexible lessons.