Differentiated Lesson Plan - 905- Dash, N

For this assignment, I chose a lesson created by one of my Kindergarten colleagues at my

school.

According to Tomlinson (n.d.), “differentiation means tailoring instruction to meet individual needs.”
Four classroom elements that teachers can differentiate based on student readiness, interest, and learning
profile include content, process, products and learning environment (Tomlinson, n.d.).

I differentiated the Hunter’s Best Friend at School lesson plan with my current Kindergarten Class in
mind. This year, my class is very diverse and consists of fourteen learners between the ages of 5 and 6 years.
There is an Education Assistant, Behaviour Support Worker, Speech and Language Pathologist, English
Language Learner teacher, and Learning Services Teacher that regularly support various students in my class.
My class thrives on routines, visuals, and timers. They enjoy art, music, and movement. To meet the needs of
my diverse learners, I differentiated content, process, products, and the learning environment in the following
ways:

Content:
• Hunter’s Best Friend at School book made available at listening station (cd + book + headphones)
• Multiple copies of Hunter’s Best Friend at School made available for use during Gr. 3 reading buddies
• Song (presenting ideas for auditory learners)
Process:
• Tiered activities- different levels of support, challenge, or complexity
• Small cards with pictures (from power point)
• EA scribes
• playdough available
• whiteboard and pens
• iPad
Product:
• Students can choose how to share what they have learned
• Print letters/words + draw pictures
• iPad to take picture (with voice recording) or video
• Playdough

Learning Environment:
• Offering a variety of tools and spaces to work
• Mini carpets
• Big Carpet
• Hooki Stools
• Book Nook
• Variety of tables
• Smart Board
 Differentiated Lesson Plan: Hunter’s Best Friend at School
TITLE: Hunter’s Best Friend at School
GRADE: Kindergarten
SUBJECT: Physical and Health Education K
Big idea: Learning about ourselves and others helps us develop a positive attitude and caring behaviours, which helps
us build healthy relationships.
Curricular competencies: Social and Community Health: Identify caring behaviours among classmates and within
families.
Content: Caring behaviours (nurturing, providing guidance, loving, respecting) in groups and families.

Learning Engagements (Content, Process, Product) Assessment

Provocation: Song- Best Friend by Patty Shukla Observations notes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1i4wIFqbNn0 • Active listening
Think/Pair/Share: and speaking
• Did this song make you think of someone in your life? • Making
• What part of the song made you think of that person? connections
Learning Engagement #1: Questions during and after reading: Observations notes
Read Hunter’s Best Friend at School • Why do you think Hunter wanted to do • Active listening
what Stripe did? and speaking
• What did Stripe do that was unexpected? • Identifying
• How do you think Hunter felt when Stripe correct zone
did those things? • Identifying
• Why do you think Stripe was doing expected and
unexpected things? unexpected
• Have you been in a situation like Hunter? behaviours
What did you do? How did it work out? • Identifies correct
• Read as a whole class learner profiles.
• How did Hunter help Stripe?
• Audiobook at listening station
• What makes Hunter and Stripe such great
• Extra copies for Gr. 3 reading
friends?
buddy session
Learning Engagement #2: My New Friend Observations notes
- Students are paired with someone they haven’t spent a lot of time with. • Active listening
- Teacher shares I like…. PowerPoint (slides include pictures and words of activities, and speaking
foods, colours, holidays, etc.).
o Students share with their partner what they like (prompted by slide). Identify and share one
§ Some students will have small cards of the slides to show their thing they both like.
partner.
• Include their
o Students draw or write the words of the things they both like on their
name, their
personal white boards.
friends name
§ EA scribe for those that need it.
and 1 thing they
§ Some students will put small cards of the slides to show their partner.
both like
- Students complete journal prompt page (words + picture)
(written or oral)
o Options:
• Visually
§ Independently print letters/words + draw pictures
represent one
§ Some letters and pictures drawn
§ Words printed in yellow, student traces over the words thing they both
§ Only picture drawn like (photograph,
§ Use an iPad to take a picture (with voice recording) or video of their video, drawing)
new friend and the 1 thing they like that is the same
Learning Engagement #3: I am a good friend Observations notes
Class Brainstorm: Describe a time when you were a good friend? • Active listening
Sharing Options: and speaking
1. Students draw a picture on their personal white board of a time they were a good
friend Identify a time they were
2. Students use playdough to create a scene of a time they were a good friend a good friend.
3. Students use the iPad to video or take pictures (with voice recording) of a time
they were a good friend.
Materials Learning Environment
• Song: Best Friend by Patty Shukla • Spaces for:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1i4wIFqbNn0 o Think Pair Share (Mini carpets/Big
• Book: Hunter’s Best Friend at School by L. M. Elliott Carpet/Hooki Stools)
• Personal White Boards + White Board Pen o Buddy Reading (Big carpet/tables/Hooki
• Journal page + Pencil + Highlighters Stools)
• I like…Power Point o Listening station (Book Nook)
• I like… mini visuals • Smart Board- songs/videos
• iPad
 References

Elliott, L. (2005). Hunter’s Best Friend at School. Katherine Tegen Books.

Miss Patty. (2011, July 30). Best Friends Children’s Song | Good Friend | Miss Patty [Video]. YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1i4wIFqbNn0

Pulice, A. (2020, November 3). Hunter’s Best Friend at School Lesson Plan [Photograph]. In Managebac.

Tomlinson, C. (n.d.). What Is Differentiated Instruction? Reading Rocket. Retrieved June 5, 2022, from

https://www.readingrockets.org/article/what-differentiated-instruction