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Laura DeGroot
First
May 1, 2015
One on one work with a student
Questioning

The student should be able to identify feelings of the character in

the story and how it changes throughout the story
The student should be able to articulate those feelings in speaking,
writing, and drawing
The students should be able to their own feelings when given
certain situations
Wemberly Worried by Kevin Henkes
Mr. Bells Fixit Shop by Ronne Peltzman
Matching/Remembering Game
One Time. Worksheet
Make that Face activity
1. I will being by taking a few minutes to catch up with my
student/students
2. Then we will talk about the feelings that weve felt today. I
will ask questions like, Has there been a time today when
you felt angry, sad, happy, or excited?
3. We will take some time to write the feelings on note cards.
We will also write feelings that we havent felt today, ones
like scared, worried, calm, peaceful, quiet, confident,
cheerful, annoyed, upset, shy etc.
4. Then we will take some more note cards and draw faces to
match those words.
5. Then we will begin reading Wemberly Worried. I will tell my
student(s) to look for the characters emotions. When they
see or hear an emotion that we wrote down or drew a picture
of, they should place the notecard on the page were
reading.
6. When we come across new feelings I will stop and we will use
sticky notes to write down why the character is feeling the
way he or she is. I will ask questions to prompt answers
7. We will continue reading, using the same strategies
8. After the book is read we will review the emotions that we
saw throughout the book
9. Then we will complete our make that face worksheet. My
student(s) will have a worksheet with a 2 blank faces. They
have to draw a face that matches the characters emotions at
the beginning and end of the story.
10.As they work I will ask questions like Why was Wemberly so
worried and scared in the beginning? What made her happy

and confident at the end of the book? Do your friends help

you to feel happy?
11.After the students have finished their faces we will read Mr.
Bells Fixit Shop. Because it is an easier book I will have the
student(s) help me read the book. I will encourage them to
be asking questions about what they are reading and we will
identify feelings as we go.
12.After the book is read we will do the One Time worksheet.
13.If time allows, students will be able to share their answers.
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Reflection:
This lesson was really fun. Neveah really enjoyed the matching game. We laughed a
lot, especially when we forgot what emotion the drawing represented. I think it was
okay that we forgot because it helped us to talk about which emotions are similar.
For example we got confused between sad and mad. We talked about how
sometimes those feelings go together and how they can have similar actions that
go along with them.
She had some trouble identifying when she felt certain feelings. She wasnt able to
think of a time when she was mad. If I taught this lesson again I would take more
time to help scaffold thinking about feelings and when we feel them and why.
We read a book and I had her draw how the character was feeling at the end of the
book and at the beginning. Im not sure she really understood what I was asking so
if I taught it again I would be clearer with that.
Overall the lesson was fun and my student was fairly good at thinking deeply about
the texts we read.