Nicole Coury

Lesson Tile: Guided Reading

Date: January 26, 2016
Subject/Grade: reading/writing, 2nd
Materials: Hawks on a Clock book, paper, pencils
Standards: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.3
Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges.
Objective: Students will be able to explain how characters handle a main
problem in a story by identifying how the Hawks solved their problem in
Hawks on a Clock.
Language Objective: students will be able to communicate about a book by
discussing the problem in the book Hawks on a clock.
Instructional Set:
Write the objectives on a slip of paper
Anticipatory set: 2 minutes
Read the book: 12 minutes. Read as a group have students switch off after
each page.
Throughout the book ask question such as what are the Hawks doing? How
are the pigeons reacting to the Hawks? Why dont they want the pigeons in
the area?
Identify the main problem of the story as a group: 3 minutes
Have students write about the main problem and how the Hawks solved it in
their journals: 10 minutes. Before students write on their own as a group
come up with ways the hawks solved the problem with the pigeons.
Closing: 3 minutes

Anticipatory Set
Tell the students a story
about how I once had
to figure out how to
avoid a spill in the
hallway that was
blocking my way to
class at the U of A. To
solve this problem, I
had to think of other
hallways or paths that I
could use to get to
class on time. Ask
students if they have
had a problem that
they had to solve.

Teacher action
Questioning

Student action
Reading a story

Guiding students to
identify the main
problem

Discussing the problem

in the story

Helping students with

vocabulary words and
spelling
Assessing students
ability to identify how
characters solve a
problem.

Writing about the

problem and ways
characters solved it
Learning new reading
strategies

Reading along with

students

Assessment:
Read over students writing. See if students were able to clearly identify
the main problem and ways the Hawks solved the problem. Students writing
should be in their words but include details that were in the book.
Closing:
Review the objective. Students will share their writing with the group
and how they identified ways the Hawks got rid of the pigeons. Ask students
what they learned about finding the main problem in a story.
Differentiated instruction:
If students are struggling look back in the story with them and discuss
ways, the characters solved the problem. For students who need more of a
challenge have them write about what they would have done if they were a
hawk in the story.