Lesson Plan - Interactive Read Aloud Rationale: The kindergarten curriculum states that children need to be introduced to text

to make self connections and predictions as strategies to comprehend text. The curriculum also states that children need to be able to determine bet een genres of non-fiction and fiction. The children alread! have been introduced and have practiced making text self connections and determining fiction"non-fiction. This lesson includes making text self connections# determining bet een fiction"non-fiction and making predictions. $ecause of the nature of an interactive read aloud# the lesson also builds s!ntactic kno ledge# kno ledge of text structure of narrative text# and ord meaning kno ledge# as ell as kno ledge about hat fluent reading sounds like. Goals: The student ill: %%&& RL.'.(.: ith prompting and support# identif! characters# settings# and ma)or events in a stor!. Objectives: The student ill: *ake connections bet een the text and their o n lives *ake predictions to understand the stor! +etermine if the text is fiction or non-fiction Assessment: &tudents ith be assessed during the demonstration part of the reading for their abilities to make connections and predictions about the stor!. The! ill also be assessed on their abilit! to determine if the stor! is fiction or non-fiction. I ill focus on the group as a hole and hile the! are interacting ith each other and m!self. I ill keep notes to record their behaviors. There ill be further assessment during shared reading# guided reading and independent reading. Strategies for children requiring additional assistance : These children ill be seated closer to me for personal assistance. ,hen it is time to do discussion ith buddies# I ill make sure that the students are paired up appropriatel!. Materials Needed: Title: $arn!ard Lullab! b! -rank Asch .-iction/ %+"tape of children0s lullabies $oom box or pla!er to pla! the lullabies Total Time Needed: 12-13 minutes Procedures: 4ave been orking on hat is fiction"nonfiction Introduction to Author"Illustrator %onnections to one0s o n life

,hat happens next &tor! is about the farmer ho can not sleep because all the animals are being loud Demonstration: *! connection to hen m! mother ould sing to me hen I as little so I could fall a sleep. 5o I sing to m! daughter to help her fall a sleep. +oes an!one sing to !ou at night6 ,hat do the! sing6 Talk ith !our budd! for a minute about this &hare connections ,hat happens next6 Partici ation: &top after the mother hen sings. ,as the farmer mad or happ! about this6 ,hat might happen next. .Turn and talk/ &top after the mother co sings. ,as the farmer mad or happ! about this6 ,hat might happen next. .Turn and talk/ &top after the farmer !ells. ,ho as not happ! hen he did this6 ,hat does this remind !ou of6 .Turn and talk/ !losure: *ake connections to o n lives *ake predictions to hat ill happen next %larif! that this is ho e read and think out loud +ismiss to hat is next .either independent reading or activities/ Possible ne"t ste s: Reread the book and have the children retell the stor! Read another book b! -rank Asch and see hat are the similarities and differences bet een the book