Intern Name: Carissa Rhodes

Topic/Title of Lesson: Small Group; Dont Be Late

Grade: Kindergarten
Length of Lesson: Twenty Minutes
Date Taught: 10/21/14

LESSON PLAN
Overview
Standards of
Learning
Essential Questions
Objectives

Key Vocabulary or
Concepts

Materials
Introduction/Hook
Instructional
Activities
Accommodations
Closure Activity

Start my small group on a book and let them read it. Help them whenever
they have issues. As they work their way through the story, each of them will
take turns whisper reading the story to me. I will make a note when they
stumble on a certain word or phrase. At the end, we will have a discussion on
what happened in the book.
K 3, 4, &5
1. Is the story a fictional book, or a nonfiction book? How can you tell?
2. Who is an author? What do they do?
3. Who is an illustrator? What do they do?
The students will be able to recall every part of the story, and retell it,
including details.
Key Vocab
Illustrator
Author
Dont (address contraction of Do Not)
Quotation marks
Bull
Key Concept
Fiction
Nonfiction
o The story Dont Be Late
o Popsicle sticks (to follow along in reading)
I plan to cover the title while the children look at the cover of the story. I will
ask them to guess what the sory is about. Guess whether it is fiction or
nonfiction based on the cover art (fiction=picture, nonfiction=photograph).
Ask them about the author and illustrator, and what each one does.
1. Read the story
2. Have each student follow along with their silent reading with popsicle
sticks
3. Have each child whisper read a page
-Help each child understand the meaning of Dont, and that it counts as one
word (theyve never seen apostrophes before)
-Tell the children what quotation marks are (they havent experienced them
before)
-Help the children identify the word Bull (not sure what theyll call it.
Maybe ox.)
Have a discussion about the major events of the book. Have each individual
student share one detail they remember.
Adapted from the Teacher Cadet Curriculum, Property of CERRASouth Carolina 2004, and/or the Virginia Teachers for Tomorrow Curriculum
John M. Merritt, English Teacher at Kellam High School (Virginia Beach City Public Schools)

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Reflection

Totally informal. If they can remember their detail, they got the gist of the
activity.
Mrs. Everton was helpful in sharing how they sometimes go about group
reading, so I mostly based it off of her extremely helpful advice.
Overall, the lesson went quite well. I enjoyed it, and definitely look forward
to working with my kids even more than I got to today.

Adapted from the Teacher Cadet Curriculum, Property of CERRASouth Carolina 2004, and/or the Virginia Teachers for Tomorrow Curriculum
John M. Merritt, English Teacher at Kellam High School (Virginia Beach City Public Schools)