Instructions The teacher will introduce the book, The Honeybee Man by Lela Nargi and she will ask the class about what they think the book will be about based on the illustrations. Students will engage in a discussion of honeybees and they will share with the classroom what they know about bees and their unique qualities. During this activity students will engage in a KWL chart to collect ideas and think about what they would further like to know. The teacher will begin reading the book, but also participate in guided reading, in where she/he will pause every so often to recollect ideas from the students. These pauses with include summarizing and note taking events that occurred, for example the introduction of a new character, setting, or …show more content…
Student will be able to refer to their KWL charts and writing journals to recall events. The teacher will then introduce the purpose of a main idea and supporting details to the class through a series of examples and present the students with an organizer to arrange their ideas. The teacher will then ask students to engage in think-pair-share, so that they can organize their main ideas and their supporting details. Students will continue to work on their main idea/ supporting detail organizers while sharing with other classmates. The teacher will then ask students to create their own topic sentence in which they will support using ideas from their graphic organizers, KWL chart, and their writing journals. Instructional Strategies: During the lesson the teacher is allowing the students to discuss and think about what is occurring in the story. The teacher is implementing this by allowing and allocating time for debriefing in between the story. By doing thing the teacher gives the students the opportunity to use their KWL Charts throughout the lesson just in case something has been answered, or if a new idea were to appear. Moreover the students are also allowed to use their writing journal for note taking during this story. This allows the students to go back in their journals to recall events and important …show more content…
Both lesson plan days include think-pair-share strategies, which permits students to engage with a partner using age-appropriate literacy skills and eventually with the whole class. The students are also given multiple times throughout the lesson to engage as well. By using KWL charts students are also able to share their own experiences with the class and this permits the students to contribute their own individual insights. Through these resources, activities, and strategies, students are able to make progress into distinguishing the main idea and supporting details in reading texts. Through this they are also able to organize thoughts to develop a topic sentence and moreover use supporting facts and details. Many of the resources and activities done in this lesson allowed the students to think for themselves and make educated guesses based on the information given. Moreover they were allowed multiple opportunities to share with one another about heir thought
The Secret Life of Bees is a fictional novel by Sue Monk Kidd that is set in 1964, the year of the Civil Rights Act, in Sylvan, South Carolina. The book focuses on the fourteen-year-old Lilly who runs away from her abusive father, with her servant Rosaleen to Tiburon, S.C. In Tiburon, Lilly uses one of her deceased mother’s treasured possessions, a black Virgin Mary, to lead her and Rosaleen to Black Madonna Honey produced by the Boatwrights sisters May, June, and August. These three sisters take in both Lilly and Rosaleen; putting Lily to work in the honey house where she is finally happy for the first time since her mother was killed. Lily is running not just from her abusive father but from the memories she has from when she was four-years-old, specifically the time when she accidentally killed her mother. This book gives a poignant analysis of this fourteen-year-old girl as she demonstrates the concepts of attachment styles, dating, parenting style, self-esteem, and the cohort effects of the generation she lived in.
The organization of each honey bees job is fascinating, for each job is assigned to a bee in accordance to its age.
Throughout The Secret Life of Bees , there is no shortage of symbolism, coming directly from its namesake, bees. Each connection draws upon the deep and rich meaning behind this wonderful composed text. The bees, however, never are a scapegoat. Similar to Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird character Atticus, they never allow for shortcuts or disillusion with reality. They force you to see the world as it is, and to accept it, and send love to it, for it is all you can, when you are as insignificant as a
W. In the second part of this step, the students are encouraged to develop categories for the ideas they brain stormed. The second step is step W determining what I want to learn. In this step, the students are encouraged to create questions and are asked to write down the ones that interest them the most.
... help the lesson sink into the students memory even further, as well as show us, the evaluators, if they are understanding the concepts.
In order for students to see themselves as reader, the students will work with various aspects of reading instruction. These four informative formats, word recognition, directions cards, picture/phrase cards, and story book, students are exposed to a specific set of words in a errorless situation in order to develop the phonemic awareness skills needed to become a successful
"Related Topics." ARS : Honey Bees and Colony Collapse Disorder. Department of Agriculture, 2 Dec. 2013. Web.
The honey bee is a very social and cooperative insect. Honey bees live in colonies with one queen running the entire operation. Honey bee hives consist of three members: the single queen, hundreds of male drones, which mate with the queen, and 20,000 to 80,000 female worker bees. Each hive also consists of developing eggs, larvae, and pupae. The number of individual bees inside the colony can depend on the location and current season. A colony can have up to 80,000 bees during the active season, which is usually during the spring with the warm weather can flowering of plants.(Orkin, 2017)
For some people, bees can be very annoying. They might have buzzed around you, chased you down the street, and sometimes can even sting you. Although this may seem unpleasant, the truth is, if bees didn’t exist, neither would humans. Bees are found in almost all habitats and they play a vital role. There are “nearly 20,000 known bee species in the world, and 4,000 of them are native to the United States” (Hamilton). They might look different and they might have different names, but they almost all do the same basic thing for us and for the environment. They pollinate plants and help make sure they are able to reproduce. Furthermore, bees are essential for most of the foods that we eat. “One of every three bites of food eaten worldwide depends on pollinators, especially bees...(Grossman)”. Even though bees can be a burden, they are a necessity to your wellbeing. Among the top one hundred crops that make up ninety percent of people’s diets around the world, has been responsible by bees for pollinating more than seventy of them. The fact is, these insects are nearly extinct. In order to
One principal of this is to provide options for expression and communication. This lesson plan does a good job of this already by allowing students to think-pair-share then to say the answer aloud to the teacher in a group class setting, as well as allowing students to create a narrative using the graphic organizer on their own. However, Darius “becomes anxious during group activities, has trouble waiting for his turn”, therefore the group classroom discussion and think-pair-share part of these activities may prove challenging for Darius. Therefore the teacher should allow him the option to do this same activity one on one with her before allowing him to do it on his own to eliminate the group setting.
What is the perspective of the students in regards to instructional strategies using text walk features, the Questioning as Thinking (QAT) strategy, and KWL charts is applied over a three week instructional unit?
Students will be accessed on their ability to explain information and their ideas through analysis and evaluation. Scaffolding sheets will be provided to all members of the class, assisting in structure as well as content. During class time (watching the movie) and drafting, it is vital that the student is taught that the focus should be the content of the notes, rather than the spelling and grammar (Firth, 2010). This can be assisted and improved by using a dictionary, or a laptop in class to assist with spellcheck, however what the student knows and learns, is more important (Evans, George, White, and Sharp, 2010). The student will require specific and practical help with planning, structure and organisation (QSA, n.d.b). Appropriate adjustments for this will be provided through scaffolding sheets stepping out how to structure their assignment, drafting sheets that incorporate the use of pictures to link
There are several reading and writing strategies in the classroom that encourage a student’s literacy development. One of the seven focus methods is known as modelled reading. Modelled reading occurs when a teacher “models, demonstrates and verbalises the behaviours for reading and writing” (Flint, 152). When demonstrating modelled reading, the teacher is responsible to lead the focus method by using “big book, picture book or an enlarged version of a poem” (Flint, 151). Whilst reading this text, the teacher selects a teaching point (eg. phonics, vocabulary, comprehension skills) and identifies any challenges and supports in the text and for students.Within modelled reading there are two key terms to be aware of; whole-part-whole and a mini lesson. The whole-part-whole strategy is an instructional strategy where the teacher alters the focuses between the whole text and smaller sections of the text. A mini-lesson focuses on introducing and discussing strategies in a short instructional session.
There are many different methods of teaching students to understand the meaning of a text and what the students read. Close reading is a common method teacher’s use when teaching the text’s meaning. A close read is when the student is required to develop a deep understanding of an informational or literacy text by discovering the hidden clues within a text about the author’s purpose and characters. After the student has gone through the close read method, it is expected students figure out how to gain a deeper understanding and what is confusing about the text. When choosing a text for the students to read the reading level is a factor, the passage must be slightly above grade level. After the first reading, the students look at the vocabulary
Flexible grouping, independent reading, and writing opportunities should be a part of Student D’s instructional setting. Her interest survey expressed her enjoyment of reading in her spare time but not academic content text, therefore science and literature will be combined in an engaging way. The Read To section involves a weather poem I will read setting the stage for background knowledge. This will expose my learner to new vocabulary and sentence fluency along with a retell of the poem, which the Dibels data pointed out she is capable of performing the task. Read With area involves reading an informational text about tornadoes together. The student will alternate between silent and oral reading, as periodic stops between passages will be conducted to check for understanding. Scaffolding of this activity would include increasing the amount of passages before checking for comprehension and finally independent reading. The student’s writing sample indicated confusion with periods and commas, thus the Write With section involves practicing punctuation placement. Finally, the Word Study will involve topical words the learner will have to understand and use in sentences. This involves using a computer to make picture word sorts of key vocabulary terms. Using clip art the student will find pictures representing topical words and write their meaning. This