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Wood ISTC 301/501

Practical Teaching Experience


Lesson Planning Template
This document is to be completed and submitted before you are scheduled to teach your lesson. Only one copy per student
pair (with both names on the template) need be submitted
Student Pair Names
Kinderel Hodgson
PLANNING FOR TEACHING
Lesson Content Area (i.e. math, language, science)
Reading/ English Language Arts
Grade Level
Grade 2
Title of Lesson
Reading Comprehension and Cause/ Effect
MD College and Career Ready Standards
Strand or Domain: Reading Literature
Cluster: Key Ideas and Details
Standard: RL3 CCR Anchor Standard: Analyze how and why individuals, events, and ideas develop and interact over
the course of text.
Lesson Objective
Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges by identifying cause/effect relationships
between characters and major story events and challenges in a text.
What materials will you need
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day By: Judith Viorst
Cause and Effect Chart Worksheet
Scissors
Glue
Promethean Board- Flipchart
ActivInspire
YouTube
Technology Integration
Promethean Board/ ActivInspire: will be used to display the lesson and the different activities for the lesson.
YouTube: will be used as a read aloud tool
Maryland Technology Literacy Standards for Students
Standard 3.0- Technology for Learning and Collaboration
Grade 2: B: Collaboration: Participate in class lesson using technology tools to collect, display, and interpret, data.
TEACHING THE LESSON
Introducing the Lesson: (Your lesson objective(s) MUST be visible to students before you begin teaching)
Warm-Up:
Define and go over cause and effect concept
Complete warm-up worksheet on promethean board.

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Introduce the book. Today we will be reading Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, no Good, Very Bad Day by:
Judith Viorst.
What can you assume from the title?
o Turn to a partner and tell them about your bad day that you had.
What do you visualize happening in the book from looking at the cover?
Begin reading the book/ begin video
Plans for Differentiation- There are different parts of the lesson that will help each type of learner to understand and
comprehend the information.
Read aloud Video- Auditory learners/ Visual learners
Book- Visual learners
Cutting and pasting answers on worksheet- Kinesthetic learners
Procedures for teaching the Content

Warm-up
Begin reading/playing video
On page 10, stop and ask students:
o Describe how you think Alexander is feeling? Turn to a partner to discuss.
Continue reading the book.
Ask students:
o Why do you think Alexander keeps mentioning Australia? Turn to a partner to discuss.
After finishing the book, ask students:
o What did Alexander realize at the end of the book?
Handout worksheet
Explain directions:
o Based on the events in the story, students will match the proper cause with the proper effect.
Individually students will now complete the cause and effect activity.
After student students complete worksheet they will share their answers with their partner.
Have students come up to the board to show their answers for the worksheet.

Summary and Lesson Closure


As a class we will go over the worksheet and students will come to the promethean board to show their answers. After
that as a class we will refer back to the objective to make sure we have met it.
Formative Assessment
Completion of the Cause and effect worksheet will allow me to see who was able to comprehend the events in the story
and match the proper cause with the proper effect.
Extension of learningFor homework, students will make up their own short stories that include at least 5 cause and effect situations. When
they come into class the next day, they will exchange stories with one of their classmates and they must find the at
least 3 cause and effect relationships in the story.

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