ORC Lesson Plan

Hello Fellow Bloggers,
I would like to take a moment to introduce you all to a great teaching resource that I have found to be useful in my lesson planning. The Ohio Resource Center has thousands of lesson plans for grades K-12. These lesson plans are based on the Ohio Learning Content Standards. As I am in the early stages of acquiring my Early Intervention Specialist license on the moderate to severe track, I understand my teaching needs to be intentional. I also understand that the first days of school is important for setting a classroom atmosphere that is welcoming to children. Searching this site I came across a very interesting lesson plan to teach kindergartner's how to relate to each other and build a community within my classroom.  Recognizing by laying this foundation of community is critical to my children's success in the classroom throughout the school year.
The children will be expected to listen to the story My Teacher's Secret Life, they will discuss the content, and make predictions about what the teacher and their peers do when they are not at school. Students will chart both the responses of their peers and teachers activities. Students will then work together to draw their personal lives that they will later share with the class.This lesson plan covers several different Common Core Standards list below.

OH.CC.RL.K.		Reading Standards for Literature
		Key Ideas and Details
RL.K.1.		With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
RL.K.10.		Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.
OH.CC.W.K.		Writing Standards
		Research to Build and Present Knowledge
OH.CC.SL.K.		Speaking and Listening Standards
		Comprehension and Collaboration
SL.K.2.		Confirm understanding of a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media by asking and answering questions about key details and requesting clarification if something is not understood.
		Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
SL.K.5.		Add drawings or other visual displays to descriptions as desired to provide additional detail.
W.K.7.		Participate in shared research and writing projects (e.g., explore a number of books by a favorite author and express opinions about them).

I feel the most challenging part of this lesson plan, is having children who do not what to participate because of shyness. For these types of children I plan to work directly with them using scaffolding techniques and encouragement. Another challenge could be the time that it would take to complete this lesson. I plan to make this a two day event, starting with reading the book. Then moving into the children making predictions and charting their responses. On day 2, I plan to begin with a recap of the story and the charted responses, then introducing the drawing portion and by the end compiling our booklets and then sharing our books the the classroom.









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