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Hannah Eckley
November 17, 2014

Kim Carnahan
Reading 2nd Grade

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES TO MEET GOALS:

Students will be able to recognize how to draw conclusions and
visualize.
Students will be reviewing long a: a, ai, ay words.
COMMON CORE STANDARD
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.2.3.a
Distinguish long and short vowels when reading regularly spelled onesyllable words.
MOTIVATIONAL TECHNIQUES:
Discuss Thanksgiving celebrations with the class. Ask the children what
they know about celebrating Thanksgiving.
MATERIALS NEEDED:
Reading Book
Pencil
PROCEDURE FOR THE LESSON:
Students will open their reading book to the story A Turkey for
Thanksgiving.
I will call on students to read by choosing popsicle sticks and
they will take turns reading aloud the story.
In the middle of the story I will ask the class what they predict
will happen at the end. At this point I will have them draw a
picture of what they think the conclusion will be.
At the end of the story we will review what we read.
Next I will let some kids discuss some more on the holiday.
We will do a Thanksgiving graphic organizer activity after the
review.
ACADEMIC LANGUAGE:
Everybody, Thanksgiving, minute, riverbank, hooves, behind, promise,
brought.
ASSESMENT METHODS:

Graphic organizer/T-chart on Thanksgiving vs. Independence Day and

compare and contrast the two. They will use and distinguish the long a
words, and circle them on their chart if any.
EVALUATION OF FIELD STUDENTS PERFORMANCE:
I thought this lesson went very well. It was so fun to read a book that is
geared toward a holiday coming up. The students struggle with short
and long a words. Its common for them to struggle with that this
young, though. Overall, the lesson went smoothly and the students
loved sharing their own Thanksgiving celebration stories!!