RU Teacher Education Lesson Plan Format

Candidate Name: Rachel Danby, Heather Wade, Courtney Watts, Ashleigh Cochran
Date: March 14, 2018 Grade Level: 2

Lesson Title/Topic: Personal Narrative

Standards:
1.13 The student will write to communicate ideas for a variety of purposes.
a) Generate ideas.
b) Focus on one topic.

2.12 The student will write stories, letters, and simple explanations.
a) Generate ideas before writing.
b) Organize writing to include a beginning, middle, and end for narrative and expository writing.

Specific Observable Objective(s):

The students will demonstrate their understanding of drafting a personal narrative based off of the
graphic organizer that they created using their seed ideas by including a beginning, middle, and
end.

Essential Vocabulary:​ personal narrative, draft, graphic organizer, watermelon vs seed

Assessment:​ graphic organizer, draft

Students will demonstrate an understanding of creating a beginning, middle, and end of their
personal narrative by completing a graphic organizer and a draft with 100% accuracy.

Student Considerations:

Instructional Resources, Materials, and Technology:

graphic organizer, anchor chart, popsicle sticks, elmo, worksheets from last class, notebook paper

PROCEDURES:

The Beginning (a.k.a. Anticipatory Set): (7-10 min)

Restate difference between watermelon v seed idea & personal narratives
(using the anchor chart)
Play watermelon v seed game again
Pass back worksheets
 The Middle: (30-45 min)
Direct Instruction:
Model how to tell story with your fingers (thumb: “my story is about… pointer
finger: “the first thing that happened…” middle finger: “the next thing that
happened…” ring finger: “the last thing that happened is…” pinky: “i want my
readers to feel…”)

Guided Practice:
turn to your partner and tell your seed story across your fingers *make sure to
use the words that we used
Rachel fills out the graphic organizer based on ashleigh’s camping story
hand out graphic organizer

Independent Practice:
fill out graphic organizer
write first draft using the graphic organizer

The End (a.k.a. Closing): (5 min)

have students share their drafts
collect drafts
summarize what we learned

Teacher Reflection on Practice (following the lesson):

1. What evidence did you collect to show your students attained today’s objective(s)? Please
explain how you know which students did and did not master your objectives. Use formative
assessment data to support your claims regarding the portion of students who did and did
not master the learning objective(s).

2. Based on the result of your assessment, what will you do tomorrow? Can you go ahead as
planned or will you need to reteach concepts from today’s lesson? (Explain how you will
reteach and/or connect and feed forward.)

3. If you have to teach this lesson again, what might you do the same and what might you do
differently?