Intern Name: Taylor Dody

Lesson Title (Subject/Topic): English

Grade: 5
Length of Lesson: 40 minutes
Date Taught:
LESSON PLAN TEMPLATE
In this lesson…
Infer the outcomes or main idea of movies, images, videos. Students will also
Overview create a short paragraph and have classmates infer the prompt that they wrote
about.

Standards of
Learning
Essential Questions How do we infer?

Students will be able to…

Objectives
Use context clues to make inferences.
I can use context clues to identify and infer main ideas and outcomes of
Learning Target short stories, videos and pictures.
Necessary Prior What is an inference?
Knowledge
Materials A pencil in the paper I distributed to them.
To start off the lesson I created a slideshow giving the dictionary definition of
the terms inference and context clues. I also gave my own definitions as I feel it
Introduction/Hook is a lot easier to understand a word if you put it into your own words.

For my lesson, I first used and image have a family sitting on the beach. I had
the students and fur what they were doing after I had stated the facts of a
picture. As I explained the difference between an inference and a fact. I then
had them watch a short clip from the movie The Parent Trap And had them
Instructional infer the outcome of the situation, and why they were fighting. Lastly, I used a
Activities & description of the movie Front of the class and read it aloud to the students. The
word Tourette's was used and I have the students use context clues to infer what
Strategies it meant. I also had them and for the outcome of the movie.

Adapted from the Teacher Cadet Curriculum, Property of CERRA—South Carolina © 2004, and/or the Virginia Teachers for Tomorrow Curriculum
John M. Merritt, English Teacher at Kellam High School (Virginia Beach City Public Schools)
Key Vocabulary or Inference
context clues
Concepts
After each student had written the prompt of their choosing I had most every
Assessments student go to the front of the class and read their prompt and ask their
classmates to infer the prompt they were writing about.

For the students closure activity I gave them a list of prompts and which to write
about. Each student could use one or multiple to write about the only stipulation
was the bolded word give in, which was typically the main idea, was the only
Closure Activity word they were not allowed to use. They had to give context clues to describe
the situation without saying that bolted word. Most students did multiple of
these problems as they enjoyed it so much.

I gave the option to 2 students in particular to create a prompt of their choice as

long as it is approved by me or my cooperating teacher. Although I gave him
this option, there were enough creative prompts given that they just chose 1 off
Accommodations of the sheet I handed to them.

Image-
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L3wAhXHGN8KHZtaD0UQMygcegUIARCLAg..i&docid=Xi2Roif8_58W7M
&w=2500&h=1100&q=sunset%20family%20on%20beach%20with%20campfir
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Resources Front of the class description-
https://www.hallmarkdrama.com/front-of-the-class/about-front-of-the-class#:~:t
ext=Based%20on%20the%20true%20story,attention%20or%20simply%20actin
g%20up.

Parent Trap video- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pboXYesdeA

Reflection on a Lesson Plan Taught

Virginia Teachers for Tomorrow
Intern Name:
Adapted from the Teacher Cadet Curriculum, Property of CERRA—South Carolina © 2004, and/or the Virginia Teachers for Tomorrow Curriculum
John M. Merritt, English Teacher at Kellam High School (Virginia Beach City Public Schools)
Lesson Title (Subecjt/Topc): Taylor Dody
Date of Lesson Taught:
Cooperating Teacher & School Brynn Coates, John B Dey
Grade: 5
Time of Day: 10:30

1. What steps did you go through to create this lesson? With whom did you talk, discuss, or edit your lesson?
For this lesson my cooperating teacher kind of needed me end to the direction of what she wanted me to teach.
Other than that I create adolescent solely on my own. My cooperating teacher did review and edit my lesson.

2. How did the SOLs and Objectives help focus your instruction?
As this was Sol review the Sol objectives guided me into what the students really needed to know.

3. What parts of the instructional plan worked as you anticipated?

Quite honestly, all parts of the instructional lesson plan went as planned. The only curveball was that some
students actually knew what The Parent Trap was as well as seen the movie The Front Of The Class!
4. What, if any, adjustments needed to be made once you began?
The only adjustment I needed to make was to remind the students to focus on inferences rather than the facts.

5. How well did you anticipate the materials needed?

All materials that I needed were readily available.

6. How effective was the assessment you chose to use? (If no assessment was used, what will the future
assessment be and how will you gauge its effectiveness?)

As the students' responses reflected the lesson I taught I believe my lesson was extremely effective. Having the
students create their own writing and have their classmates inferethe prompt they used helped me understand
what they knew.
7. To what degree do you feel that this lesson was a success? What evidence do you have for the success of
the lesson? (Hint: Student learning is the key to a lesson’s success!)
I feel the lesson was very successful as all the students were able to not only be knowledgeable about context
clues and inferences but we're able to apply it to their own writing.

8. How did the time spent preparing for your lesson contribute to it’s success?
The resources that I use during my lesson plan we're sort of hard to find especially ones that would interest the
students so I feel me taking the time to research my resources truly affected the success of my lesson.

9. If you could do this lesson again with the same students, would you do anything differently? If so, what?

I do not think I would do anything differently.

10. Any last comments/reflections about your lesson?

Adapted from the Teacher Cadet Curriculum, Property of CERRA—South Carolina © 2004, and/or the Virginia Teachers for Tomorrow Curriculum
John M. Merritt, English Teacher at Kellam High School (Virginia Beach City Public Schools)
 This was the lesson plan I was most excited to teach as it allowed students to express
creativity and their writing will also applying the knowledge that we learned. Coming up with all
of the prompts was extremely fascinating and fun for myself and I know the students enjoyed
writing about them.

Adapted from the Teacher Cadet Curriculum, Property of CERRA—South Carolina © 2004, and/or the Virginia Teachers for Tomorrow Curriculum
John M. Merritt, English Teacher at Kellam High School (Virginia Beach City Public Schools)