Week 9

Central focus Retell a Story with Main Idea Key Details

Knowledge of students to inform teaching First grade reading skills - Phonemic awareness, phonological awareness, letters and alphabets, letter-sound correspondence.

Common Core State Standards CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.2: "Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson."

Support literacy development through language (academic language) Students will retell and summarize the text to show comprehension.

Learning objectives Students will be able to retell a story with the important details Students will be able to summarize what they read in a text Students will be able to come up with one sentence for the main idea of the story

Formal and informal assessment Informal Assessment: Teacher circulates the classroom during the task to offer assistance when necessary and to see how students are performing.  Students’ behavior and work will be recorded to help design effective lessons. Formal Assessment:      Running Record and Miscue Analysis to inform teaching effectiveness and student learning. Does student stop at errors and self-correct based on understanding? Can student retell the short story? etc.

Instructional procedure: Class Activity: Whole class read aloud. Put up a large web with the center called Main Idea and the rest Important Details. Ask students to try answering “what is the story about?” in one sentence. Students share. Then students jot down on post-its what they think are important details. Read-aloud the same story again to show students that reading twice helps with retelling the story. Then fill in the web. Students volunteer to use the web to help them retell the story in short. Group Activities:   Students will move from one center to the other every 15-20 minutes. Center a.    Students will refer to the chart paper story web and take chances drawing sections of a comic to represent the story. Students will either draw the comic or write the text in the comic. This will teach students that drawing a story web is a great tool for retelling a story. Center b.    What’s in a story Worksheet: Students will read a short paragraph and then fill in main idea and details. Students that complete this task quickly can draw the contents of the short story. Center c.    Flightless Birds - online interactive text. Students will watch and listen to this and after every paragraph, they will stop the recording to write short notes, draw pictures or map that which took place. Students will each write down their answers and then share their thoughts with each other. At the completion of the reading students will draw a chart in which they will compare and contrast ostriches and penguins. Center d.    Short reading comprehension work sheet about conservation of water. As students read along they will highlight important phrases and ideas. Students will then create a title for the text and retell the story in their own words using 2-3 sentences. Students will refer to the highlighted words for assistance.

Instructional resources and materials used to engage students in learning. Whats in a story worksheet - http://www.education.com/download/worksheet/62301/reading-comprehension-story-web.pdf Flightless Birds http://www.education.com/game/flightless-birds/ Conserving water reading comprehension worksheet Chart Paper Read Aloud

Reflection Can students retell a story? Can students use effective strategies to help them retell and summarize a story? Can student fill in a story web accurately? How many prompts do students need to retell the story? Can students come up with one sentence to represent the main idea? Based on the answers to these questions I will reteach individual students as necessary…