Reading Lesson Plan Format

JMU Student Name: Miranda Russnow Grade Level: Pre-K Date/Time you plan to teach the lesson: 2/14 @ 1:40pm Should take 10-15 min
Lesson Type: READ ALOUD

Title, Author & Summary of the Text Used in this Lesson:

Title: Love Monster and the Last Chocolate

Author: Rachel Bright
Summary: Love Monster gets back from vacation to find a big, purple box of chocolates waiting for him on his
doorstep. He's ecstatic! He just LOVES chocolate- especially the double chocolate strawberry swirl. Its his favorite. But
now he finds himself in a dilemma- he wants to share the chocolate with his friends, but what if they take all the good
ones and leave the worst one for him?!? He decides that its for the best to just keep the chocolates for himself and that
way, there are no problems. But they he starts to get that "sort of queasy-squeeze feeling in his heart" and he knows that
he can't keep them for himself and that he wants to share with all his friends. Silly Love Monster finds out that his
friends saved his most favorite piece of chocolate just for him! The moral of this story is that when you think of others
you find out that they also think of you.

Describe how and provide a rationale for the way you have grouped students for this lesson: This lesson
will be read aloud to the whole class during their read aloud time. I chose to do it with the whole class because the lesson
applies to the entire class and is part of their building blocks that they need to achieve throughout the year.

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 Reading Lesson Plan Format
JMU Student Name: Miranda Russnow Grade Level: Pre-K Date/Time you plan to teach the lesson: 2/14 @ 1:40pm Should take 10-15 min

Standard(s) Addressed:
Literacy Block 1c) Make predictions about what might happen in a story.
Literacy Block 1g) Listen attentively to stories in a whole class setting.
Personal and Social development foundation Block 5b) Recognize conflicts and seek possible solutions.
Personal and Social development foundation Block 5d) Increase the ability to share materials and toys with others
over time.



Objectives:
-The students will be able to make predictions about the story based on their ability to recognize conflicts
and seek solutions.
-From this story, the students will learn about sharing with others and utilize this information when playing
with other students.

Tier Two Vocabulary Words and Student Friendly Definitions:

1) Discover- Find out about something for the first time

2) Favorite- something or someone that is well liked by someone
3) Share- to divide and give out to others while keeping a portion for oneself.
4) Friend- a person whom you know well and like and who likes you.

Materials needed/preparation of the learning environment:

Love Monster and the Last Chocolate book by Rachel Bright

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 Reading Lesson Plan Format
JMU Student Name: Miranda Russnow Grade Level: Pre-K Date/Time you plan to teach the lesson: 2/14 @ 1:40pm Should take 10-15 min

Plans for differentiation: If doing this lesson with individual students or groups, I could have
the students who are more advanced create story maps or I could have them read some of
the pages.
If a student is a bit more behind, I would try to have them sound out words as we read.

Before Reading
Engage: Describe I will capture the students interest by first telling them who Love Monster Time
is. Love Monster is a series and the main character, Love Monster, is
how you will: explained a bit more in the first book, however we are reading one of
● capture students’ the other books that doesn't describe him in the beginning. Love 1 Min
interest and Monster is the only monster who lives in Cuteville. A town filled with cute
creatures like puppies and bunnies. He is the odd monster out.
introduce the
text; I will activate the students background knowledge by asking the
● activate students’ students what they think the book will be about and use their answers to
prompt a discussion about the book and past books we have discussed
background in class.
knowledge; and
● set the purpose
for listening
Explore: Describe Before opening the book, We will look at the cover and have the Time
students tell me what they think about Love Monster and I will try to get 1 Min
how you will: them to relate it to a previous text. The students read different “Tacky
● preview the text the Penguin” books each Thursday so I will try to get them to relate the
Love monster to Tacky.

During Reading

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 Reading Lesson Plan Format
JMU Student Name: Miranda Russnow Grade Level: Pre-K Date/Time you plan to teach the lesson: 2/14 @ 1:40pm Should take 10-15 min

Explain: Describe Time

how you will: • On the page about the different chocolates we will discuss the word
favorite. 5 Min
● model/explain
• On the page that Love Monster starts to think about sharing the
your thinking (list chocolates we will discuss the topic of sharing, and see what the
page numbers students know about sharing.
and what you will • We will discuss friends as Love Monster starts to talk about his friends.
say/do) We will talk about what a friend is.
● invite students to • The last word I may ask them about is “decision”. We will talk about
how Love Monster decided to share in the end.
model/explain
their thinking
about the words?
(list page
numbers and
what you will say/
do)
After Reading
Elaborate: Describe After reading we will discuss the topic of sharing. I will ask the students if Time
how you will: they ever had reasons that they didn't want to share like Love Monster, but
then we will discuss how Love Monster decided to share in the end and 1 Min
● engage students everything worked out because it was actually is friends that were sharing
in developing a the last chocolate with him.
more
sophisticated
understanding of
the purpose for
listening

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 Reading Lesson Plan Format
JMU Student Name: Miranda Russnow Grade Level: Pre-K Date/Time you plan to teach the lesson: 2/14 @ 1:40pm Should take 10-15 min

Evaluate: Describe If this lesson is done earlier in the day, I will encourage the students to use Time
their knowledge of sharing as they go into playtime throughout the day. If the
how you will: lesson is done later in the day I will talk to the teacher at the end of the next
● encourage day to see how they are doing with sharing and if there are any changes
students to assess over the next couple of days.
their
understanding
and abilities
● evaluate
(formally) student
progress toward
achieving the
educational
objectives
Closure: Describe I will remind the students to make sure they are sharing each day when they Time
how you will: are playing in class or at home. 3 min
● remind students
of the lesson
objective
● link the new
learning to future
learning

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 Reading Lesson Plan Format
JMU Student Name: Miranda Russnow Grade Level: Pre-K Date/Time you plan to teach the lesson: 2/14 @ 1:40pm Should take 10-15 min

What could go wrong with this lesson and what will you do about it?
-The students may start to think that they don't need to share in the first place because in the end Love Monster didn't
need to share because he was actually the recipient of when someone else shared with him.
- There is a part in the book that discussed different types of chocolates, chocolates, one of them being a
coffee flavored one. During the discussion a lot of kids kept raising their hands to answer questions about
the books but instead kept telling me they don’t like the coffee chocolates. Instead of each student saying
this over and over again, I should ask the entire group at once to raise their hand if they don’t like coffee
chocolates. This way everyone feels heard and they don’t each need to say the same thing.

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