LESSON PLAN Koalas

Name: Amy Kummer

Grade Level: 3rd grade

School: Laura Wilder Elementary School

Date: Feb. 7th, 2022

Time: 9am-9:20am

BACKGROUND, CONTEXT, AND PURPOSE

Lesson Goal(s)
 Discuss self-monitoring to understand a book
 Read and discuss part of a book
 Explore text features: captions and phonetic spellings

LESSON OBJECTIVES
 Have them be able to self-monitor well reading

Materials Needed:
 Five copies of the book Koalas
 Sticky notes
 White boards and markers

A. The Lesson

1. Introduction: Show the cover of Koalas and tell the students that it is a
nonfiction book that gives readers true information about koalas. Distribute
Koalas and have the students follow along as you read the title and the
name of the author aloud. Point out that the title of this book is also the
topic, or what the whole book is about
 What do you notice about how koalas look?

2. Methods:
 Introduce Phonetic Spellings and Captions
o Talk about Phonetic spelling in book
 Marsupials (pg. 4)
o Talk about captions
 Helps describe photos or illustrations (pg. 4)
  Read and Discuss Koalas
o Listen to the whisper read
 What was something interesting that you read?
 Introduce and Model Self-monitoring (read pg.7 and 8)
o What did I just read? For page 7
 They have brown or gray fur, ear, arms, and chests
are white. They have big noses…
o What did I just read? For page 8
 They are small. Newborns weigh the little more than
human babies. Get up to 30 pounds.
o What did I do after reach part/ page?

3. Closure: Tell the students that in the next lesson, they will read more
about koalas and talk with their partners to make sure they understand
remember what they read.

B. Assessments Used
Assessments
 I will listen to them whisper read to hear their fluency and decoding skills
 I will ask questions to see if they are remembering what they read?

C. Extensions and Adaptations

 Practice spelling words from the book
 Talk about kilograms and pounds are to different ways to tell how much
something weights

D. Resources
 Being A Reader Small Group Manual
Drawn from Dakota State University Student Teaching Handbook