Co-Teaching Lesson Plan

Teacher #1: Miss Duvall Teacher #2: Kindergarten and Spec Ed Teacher

Class: Kindergarten Date: Friday, November 19

Content Area: Reading/Writing Co-Teaching Model: One teach, one assist

PA Core Standards:
CC.1.4.K.F: Demonstrate a grade-appropriate command of the conventions of standard English
grammar, usage, capitalization, punctuation, and spelling. • Capitalize first word in sentence and
pronoun I. • Recognize and use end punctuation. • Spell simple words phonetically.

CC.1.4.K.B: Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to focus on one specific topic.

10.5 K.B: Coordinate eye and hand movements to perform an advanced task.

10.5 K.C: Use tools with control and skill to perform tasks.

Objectives:
- The student will be able to use scissors and glue properly.
- The student will be able to follow directions to create their project.
- The student will be able to write a food item that they think they should eat more of.

Materials:
- “Plump and Perky Turkey” book
- Save the Turkey craftivity pieces
o One brown turkey face circle per student
o One orange triangle turkey beak per student
o Six red, orange and yellow feathers per student
o One set of eyes per student
o Two brown turkey wings per student
o One turkey writing paper per student
- Scissors
- Glue
- Pencil
- Example craftivity
 Assessment:
The objectives will be assessed by student’s ability to cut, glue, and follow explicit directions
with the activity. It will also be assessed by the student’s responses on the writing activity

Differentiation:
Process: I will give students explicit directions and show them what to do before telling them to
do so.

Modifications/Accommodations:
The learning support students will receive additional help. If needed, either the special education
or kindergarten teacher will cut their materials out for them.

Lesson Time Teacher 1 Role Teacher 2 Role

Component/ Allotment
Activity
Activities: 40 I will be the main teacher of this lesson. I The other two teachers will
minutes will begin by reading the students the story assist the students in this
“The Plump and Perky Turkey”. As we are lesson. While I am
reading, we will talk about the different explaining, they will
things that people craft turkeys out of for circulate and make sure
the fair. We will also talk about how the students understand exactly
turkeys felt when they are always being what they are supposed to
eaten for Thanksgiving. Then, I will give be doing. If students need
each student a few minutes of think time. I help gluing, cutting, or
will ask them to think of something that writing, they will assist
people should eat more of other than a them. Also, if I miss
turkey. I will give them the writing paper anything important or they
and they will use their best spelling to write think of something that is
that item on the line. After this, I will give important to say, they will
each student their turkey head. They will tell students.
cut their head out. I will then give them the
beak, feathers, eyes and wings. When
students have cut everything out, they will
put all their pieces on their desk and throw
their trash out. I will guide students through
gluing their turkey and putting it together.
First, glue the eyes and beak onto the circle.
 Then, they will flip the circle over and glue
the feathers onto the back, so they come up
on the head. Then, they will glue the
writing onto the head and the wings onto
the writing. I will demonstrate and give
very explicit instructions while students do
this. They will put their name on the back
of the turkey when they are done. To finish,
I will ask students to tell the class some of
their ideas of what to eat instead of a
turkey.

Self-Reflection:

Earlier this week, the kindergarten teacher and I decided to do this lesson on

Thursday (today) because she had a lot going on Friday. So, I did the lesson during the

typical sound lesson time today. I started by reading the story and the students loved this.

Typically when I am in that room downstairs, it is very chaotic and loud, but today they

listened very well to me and were so respectful of my teaching. While I read the story, I

asked questions that would help support student learning and comprehension of the story.

The students loved listening and looking at the pictures. Then, I gave very explicit and

step-by-step instruction about how to create their turkey. It took a while to cut out all of

their pieces, but they finished it. The teacher also had craft bags for all of the students to

put their finished cut-outs into to keep everything organized. The one problem I ran into

was that half of the wings were lost. Because students were still cutting and there were

other adults in the room, I copied just a few more and it did not waste too much time. My

one student who was struggling this morning during math actually did amazing. His teacher

worked with him 1:1 and he did awesome at cutting as well as gluing everything. I was so
 proud of him! I was also very happy with how well the rest of the kindergarten class

listened to me and followed my instructions. At the end, they wrote their food that they

would eat instead of turkey. Their teacher said that she has not done much writing because

it is not researched, but it was good for them to have a writing activity where they had to

use their inventive spelling to spell a word. Other than the fact that this lesson took much

longer than expected (my co-op left at 1:20 to teach the 2nd grade Olweus bullying lesson;

we finished at 2), I thought that this activity went so well and was much less chaotic than

I expected it to be. I loved teaching kindergarten!

A few examples of student’s completed work:

Below is the LS student’s

work who struggles with
fine-motor skills and to
write and use scissors
safely. The other two are
examples of the
students in the general
classroom’s work.