Basic Lesson Plan Template

Name: Kayla Krese

Date: 02/11/2016
Grade Level: 1st Grade
Subject(s): Literature
Lesson # & Title: Lesson #1 Understanding the central message or lesson
Function of the Lesson (check all that apply):
Introduce New Skill or Content

Practice & Review

Remediation/Re-teaching

Content Standards:
RL.1.2: Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson.
Learning Objectives (Aligned to Standards & Assessment Plan):
After the text has been completed, the student will be able to retell the story including key details, in order to explain
its central message, with 90% accuracy.
Academic Language (Academic Language Demands and/or Academic Language Objectives):
Retell to go through the story again in your own words.
Detail Important facts or bits of information from the text.
Message What the purpose of the story.
Assessment Plan (Aligned to Learning Objectives):
Formative Assessment:
Going through each student and having them tell me at least one key detail from the book, then coming to a
decision as a class as to what the central message of the story is.
Summative Assessment:
Are my students able to go through and retell me the story in their own words while including its key details
and central message?
Procedures - Lesson Introduction:
1. Read the story, The Duckling Gets a Cookie
2. Discuss the story
3. Review who the characters are and identify the important details
4. Go around the room and ask everyone what they think the central message of the story is, and come to a class
decision
Procedures Lesson Body:
Presentation/Explicit Instruction (I do):
1. Draw 5 columns on the whiteboard and label them:
Characters
Problems
Events
Solutions
Central message
2. Go through each column and name one detail I would put there
3. Explain why I put that detail in that specific column
4. Give a brief idea as to what I think the central message
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Structured Practice/Exploration (We do):

Have each of the students give me at least one detail to write in one of the columns on the whiteboard
Explain why they think its a key detail and why it goes in the column they choose
Come to a class decision on the central message of the story

Independent Practice /Application (You do):

1. The student will create a recap road map
2. The student will illustrate 5 pit stops along the road map:
Characters
Problems
Events
Solutions
Central message
3. At each pit stop, the student will either list or write about the topic in their own words
4. The students will present their road maps in front of the class
Procedures - Lesson Closure:
1. Display the students road maps on the walls of the classroom
2. Tell the student they made an great recap roadmap, and that they did a great job retelling the story in their own
words
Instructional Materials and Support:
The Duckling Gets a Cookie
Whiteboard
Dry erase markers
Dry erase erasers
Research and Theory Commentary:
The biggest theory I based my lesson plan on was John Deweys experimental learning theory. Which simply means
that students learn by doing through interaction between classmates and also through hands-on projects. I
demonstrate this by going over the book as a class and having each student contribute what they think to be a key
detail and writing it out for everyone to refer back to. Also by having the students come up with the central message
together, each student gets to hear everyones different opinions, and allowing them to maybe think of something that
they normally would not. Then by creating a recap road map the students create a visual and artistic repetition of the
story in their own words. Once they complete the road map and present it to their peers, they are all displayed in the
classroom for everyone to see.

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