Reading Lesson Plan

This lesson was planned using backwards design.

Reading Lesson Plan

Grade: 1

Aim: Students will read words with long and short vowels interchanged.

Instructional Objectives:

Students will recognize that a word with a silent e at the end has a long vowel sound.

Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.10
With prompting and support, read prose and poetry of appropriate complexity for grade 1.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.1.3.C
Know final -e and common vowel team conventions for representing long vowel sounds.

Academic and Content Specific Vocabulary: long vowels, short vowels (students should have learned these words in a previous lesson and gotten lots of practice so they no longer confuse the two)

Method:

Establish Context: Teacher reads the book to the class called "Here Comes Mr. e".

Motivation: Teacher tells students that they are going to learn a rule which will help them read so many more words.

Direct Instruction: teacher explains how when we see the silent e at the end of the word, the short vowel becomes a long vowel and the e is very quiet

Activities to help students discover what they need to learn:

1) Class Activity- teacher picks up a card with a short vowel "a" word on it. She then adds an "e" to the end and the students all call out the new word. Individual students should be called upon to include them if necessary.

2) Independent work- students are given sheets to work on. The sheets have 2 columns. One has short vowel "a" words written in each box. The box across from this one has the same word written with a blank line at the end. Students are expected to draw a picture of the first word and then read and draw the new word. For example, can- cane.

3) Independent Work- Students work on activity sheets in which they find all words with "Mr. e" and circle it. Then they will pair up and read the words to their partners.

Differentiated Instruction: Weaker students will do the classroom activity as a group with a teacher while other members of the class do independent work at their desks.  This group then works on the sheet together and the teacher scaffolds for them. Individual students are called upon for answers.

HOT questions: ask students to predict what will happen with other vowel sounds when the e is added to the end of those words

Ask students to think of words that rhyme. Then ask them what happens when the silent e is added to the end of both of them.

Assessment: Students' work is checked over.

Closure/ Summary Questions:

What is Mr. e?

Where does he go?

What does he do to our vowel?

Do we say his name?

Reinforcement and extending student learning:

            Class Application/follow up- class and independent works

            Enrichment Activities- Ask students to try to create their own cards with Mr. e words.

            Homework- Draw a picture of the short vowel and long vowel words- practice of that day's work.

What topics come next?

            Tomorrow: review concept of Mr. e and practice isolated words

            Day After: work on silent e words with the vowel "i"

Lesson Evaluation: Did the students recognize the silent e in the words? Did they realize the pattern of how the word changed when there was a silent e at the end?