Rhiannon Dancaster

Lesson Plan – 1st Observation 9/22/2021

1. Anticipatory Set (focus): Call the students to the carpet to briefly recount what we went
over the previous week (cooperation tied into an activity where they held the same
pencil with a partner and had to draw a picture together) as well as the previous day
(how we play fairly on the playground). Then, we will look at a picture that shows
students in a classroom working together and the students will discuss what the
students are doing and how it ties into cooperation. The students will also be shown a
picture that goes along with the story in our lesson and we will discuss what they notice
about the photo (which is an abandoned lot in a city).
2. Purpose (objective): The purpose of this lesson is to help students understand how
important it is to work together (cooperation, community, etc.) and the benefits that
come from working together. They will also partake in an activity that will model how
important it is to cooperate in the classroom.
3. Input: The main vocabulary word that will be stressed during the lesson is cooperation,
and the students will need to understand how to work together to complete the
assignment. They will also need to recognize the sequence of a short story (beginning,
middle, end), which is what their activity involving working together will be all about.
The story will be read to the students (where they will hopefully make a text-to-text
connection about a previous short story we read called “Hello, Community Garden!”)
then the discussion and activity will follow.
4. Modeling (show): I will go through the procedure and steps that the students will need
to follow during the activity. The activity involves each student at a table having one of
the four steps of the story, so they must work together to put their steps together in the
correct order. I will then model how to work together (what questions to ask each
other, how to make sure everyone gets a chance to share, etc.).
5. Guided Practice: A few students will be called up to be helpers to further demonstrate
with me how the students should talk to each other and work together efficiently, in
which I will ask the rest of the students specific questions such as, “how do you think I
should ask (Student) to share what their story part says?” or “should I grab all the story
parts and just put them in order myself? Or should I include my table friends in my
work?” There will be also be sentence frames added to the board to help guide the
students with how they can ask questions to work together.
6. Check Understanding: Ask students if they all understand what the activity is by having
them give a thumbs up if they all know what to do. Will also ask one or more students to
repeat the directions just to get it in their brains an extra time. Also, the procedural
questions during the guided practice will help check for understanding. This can include
me reading the (obvious) end story part and asking, “now, since we’re so good with our
beginning, middle, and end of a story, does this part sound like it will go at the very
beginning of the story?” Students should hopefully say, “nooo,” so I know that they are
understanding the activity.
7. Independent Practice: The students will be sent off to work on the activity on their own
(as groups) while I walk around and facilitate/monitor discussions. Once they get their
story parts in order, they will call the teacher over to check the order. After they have
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got a teacher check, they will glue their story down onto a piece of construction paper in
order and label them 1, 2, 3, and 4 to indicate the order.
8. Closure: The students will be called back to the carpet to discuss how working together
went, and what they learned. The importance of working together will be recapped
again by asking questions such as, “if you didn’t work together, could you have
completed the order of the story?” Finally, we will finish by going over the definition of
cooperation again.

Standards: History-Social Science Content Standards: 1.1 #2: Understand the elements of fair
play and good sportsmanship, respect for the rights and opinions of others, and respect for
rules by which we live, including the meaning of the “Golden Rule.”
Time Duration: About 30 minutes.
Materials: Pictures to discuss, slideshow, story, story activity, construction paper, glue, pencil.
Prior Assessments: Students already had a lesson on cooperation that involved them working
together to draw a picture, and they had a lesson on playing fairly on a playground, so this
lesson will introduce how working together really ties into bettering our community.
Follow-Up Assessments: The follow-up assessment ties in with the follow-activity. See below.
Follow-Up Activity: There will be another lesson on sportsmanship the following day, where
the students will learn about being good sports and being fair on a playground. This will all tie
together at the end of the week where they will have to play a structured game together by
using all of our lessons on how we work together, cooperate, play fairly, and are good sports, to
make sure they are playing the game well.
Strategies: Proximity (I will be walking around to make sure the students are on task and
actually working together fairly), sentence frames (there will be sentence frames on the board
for students to refer to), observational notes (as I walk around I will note who seems to be
doing the most talking and who isn’t).
EL accommodations: There are pictures to go with everything we are discussing (the beginning
of the lesson, pictures for the story, and pictures on the story parts) that will help EL students
follow along with the story. The sentence frames will also help them start their sentences when
working with their groups.
Accommodations for disabilities: The students will be allowed to stand up out of their seats so
they can walk around (only) their table when working together, which will help our one student
with ADHD who can be fidgety. This student also has a daily behavioral checklist to hold them
accountable for doing their work, which will still be enforced during the lesson.
Worksheet: Attached.