Name: Leanne Kugelman Program: Student Teaching Cour

se:
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Lesson Topic / Title: Session 6 of Lucy Calkins The How to Guide for Nonfiction Writing

Lesson Date: Lesson Length: 1 hour, mini lesson approx 15 minutes Grade/Age: 2nd grade
10/24/17

Learning Objectives & Content Standard Alignment - Selects, creates, and sequences learning
experiences and performance tasks that support learners in reaching rigorous curriculum goals
based on content standards.
Learning Objective(s) Instructional Decisions / Reasoning
Students will practice teaching an audience
about a nonfiction subject through writing a Books can be their teachers
book. They can be teachers
Students will practice creating a table of Understanding that not all books
contents and organizing their ideas. are made up
Part of the Lucy Calkins
writing/reading program.

Content Standard(s) Instructional Decisions / Reasoning

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.2.2
Write informative/explanatory texts in which they This Lucy Calkins unit is
introduce a topic, use facts and definitions to specific to nonfiction writing and
develop points, and provide a concluding statement is relative to the work that
or section. students are doing in class,
writing informative texts about a
subject they are experts at.
Assessment - Uses assessment flexibly to expand and deepen understanding of learner
performance and determines best supports for continued learner growth.
Assessment Instructional Decisions / Reasoning

Conferencing and small group work. Small groups help students focus
Formative assessment through observation of on their ideas and goals
work. Formative assessment helps me
assess where the student is at
with understanding of
topic/lesson we are doing.

Instructional Materials and Resources - Stays current in content knowledge and expands
expertise in reviewing instructional materials from the perspectives of both the discipline and
individual learner needs.
Materials, Resources, and / or Technology Instructional Decisions / Reasoning
Necessary for completing the
Tiny topic note pads assignment.
Writing packet Tiny topic notepads help
Pencil students jot their ideas down on
Clipboard paper.
Writing partner

Instructional Methods: Selects, creates, and sequences learning experiences and performance
tasks by using a variety of instructional approaches, strategies, and technologies that make
learning accessible to all learners and support learners in reaching rigorous curriculum goals.
Teaching and Learning Sequence Instructional Decisions / Reasoning
9:40-Students come back from SPARK, stand on rug
for GoNoodle video about dancing and writing GoNoodle video will help them
words. understanding t he bridge gap between
dancing and writing and how they are
9:45, students sit on the rug and focus in on their the same. Practice, practice practice
writing. along with having an audience.
9:45-10:00-Minilesson
10:00-10:30-practice writing, small group and
individual conferencing.

Meeting students needs (differentiation, extensions, Instructional Decisions / Reasoning

modifications, accommodations)
Helps for a calm body and
My student with ADHD uses a standing desk, a quiet avoidance of interruptions
desk or a wiggle seat during writing time. On the rug, Avoids confrontation when
he sits closer to the teacher. students are trying to learn and
promotes keeping hands to self.
My student who has a hard time keeping hands to self Keeping a student closer to me
sits in a chair on the rug. This helps him focus on his helps them stay on task and can
work and not his friends. help me easily redirect their
attention to me.
My student who has a hard time concentrating sits Repeating directions holds
closer to the teacher and away from the library as it is student accountable for their
a distraction from instructional time. actions and creates responsible,
independent students who can
I always make students repeat their instruction back follow directions the first time.
to me more than once so that they understand what
their goals are for the lesson.