Claflin University School of Education

EDUC 450: Professional Clinical Practice

Reflective Lesson Plan Model
Name:

Monica Barr

Date: 11-11-14

PART I: PLANNING
Integrating Language Arts: If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
Title of Lesson
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Source
ELA
Subject Area (s)
2nd
Grade Level
SC.CC.RL.2.
(Curriculum Standards)
Reading Standards for Literature
Description and Background
Information

Lesson Objectives

Varying Objectives for

Individuals Needs

Statement of Purpose

Materials and Resources

Anticipatory Set

This lesson uses Laura Joffe Numeroff's If You Give a Mouse a Cookie to combine wordskill work with prediction and sequencing practice. Students learn about cause-effect
relationships during a shared reading of the book and then complete a cloze exercise that
uses context and initial consonant clues. Students then create story circles that display the
events of the story and use these circles to retell the story to a peer. Finally the students
compose their own stories, featuring themselves in the role of the mouse.
Students Will: Practice critical thinking by predicting what will happen in a story using the
illustrations and a few word cues. Demonstrate knowledge of the story by recalling the
sequence of the text. Use recollection and analysis to identify the cause-effect relationship
of story events. Practice oral skills by presenting their retelling of the story to a peer and by
presenting their own version of the story to the class. Demonstrate their comprehension of
cause-effect relationships by creating a personal story that follows an identifiable such
relationship.
I will guide the students who dont understand the material by helping them write a cause
and effect statement.
I will have the students who have mastered the concept by having them write their own
paragraph that has at least one cause and effect in it.
For the students who are presently learning English, I will have visual aids and other
resources to help them.

It is important for students to learn this content because students need to learn how to
write cause and effect relationships and the importance of knowing why something has
occur and the effects from it.
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Joffe Numeroff
Smartboard
Paper
Pencils
handouts
I will play a game with the students saying If You.and they will answer saying then
along with what they think fits the sentence. This will lead into our discussion about cause

and effect along with the story If you give a mouse a cookie.

Part II: IMPLEMENTATION

I will ask students about the definition of cause and effect, along with an example.

Pre-assessment
I will show an example of a little cloze passage and complete it for the students.

Teacher Modeling or
Demonstration
Guided Practice

Give students the cloze activity cards (each containing one word). Read aloud one of the
cloze passages you have prepared on chart paper pausing at each blank. At each blank,
ask the students, "What word would fit here?" Remind the students to use the mouse's
demands from If You Give a Mouse a Cookie. Invite the students with the correct cards to
come up and tape them in the blanks.
Ask the class to read the sentence with the student's word inserted. Then ask, "Is this the
correct word?" Repeat this procedure for the entire cloze passage. Once all the blanks are
filled in with the correct words, ask students to read with you as you reread the completed
passage. This activity will encourage the students to recall the story without the support of
the matching illustrations.
I will ask students examples of some causes along with their effects.

Checking for Understanding

Students will write their favorite part of the story along with labeling the cause and effect in
the part that they chose.

Independent Practice
Closure

I will discuss the importance of cause and effect and how there are many situations that
happen in our lives that can be labeled as a cause and effect.
Students will create their own If YouThen statement.

Assessment
(attach to lesson plan)
Extension Activities

I will have a doctor/nurse come in and talk to the students about if they eat the right foods
and exercise properly, then they will have a healthy body. Also I will encourage students by
saying if they do their work and behave in the classroom, then there will be a good
outcome from it such as good grades and other awards.

I will use the smartboard for the students to see the story that is read to them in the classroom.

Technology
How will you connect this lesson with other content areas across the curriculum?
The Arts: I will have students draw out their own If you give a mouse a cookie scenario.

Connection Across the

Curriculum

Health: We will discuss the importance of food such as healthy foods and how they can help our body.

Physical Education: We will discuss how exercising can be a great effect for a healthy body.

PART III: REFLECTION (Complete JOURNAL RESPONSE after individual lesson

presentation)
Describe the strengths of your instructional techniques, strategies and classroom management.
Describe the strengths of student engagement.

Strengths
Describe the weaknesses of your instructional techniques, strategies and classroom management.
Describe the weaknesses of student engagement.

Weaknesses
Suggestions for
Improvement

What would you change when teaching this lesson again?

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