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Lesson Plan 1

Sean Laughlin

University of Kansas

SPED 898

Dr. Brasseur-Hock

June 22, 2020

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Lesson Plan Template

PLANNING
Unit Title Lesson Plan 1
Subject Area Reading
Lesson Title The Visual Imagery Strategy
Length of Lesson 30 minutes
Audience Description Small group of students (other students are suspended and I will give them the lesson plan on
another day)
IEP Goals (where Difficulty comprehending what is being read. Improve reading strategies.
available)
Objectives Help improve comprehension while reading to hopefully encourage them that reading is not the
worst thing. Understanding that there are reading strategies to fall back on when struggling to
remember what is being read.
Standards

Assessment (formative Summative assessment with a small passage to see how they use imagery to begin with,
and/or summative) then how they use imagery after the lesson.

Resources (texts, Powerpoint, paper and pencil

technology, materials,
etc.)
Incorporation of other N/A
subject areas
LESSON DELIVERY
Introduction # of minutes:__5___
(Anticipatory set,
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thinking device, advance

organizer, lesson
“hook”) Introduction about what the powerpoint is over, then give the students a paragraph on the screen.
On their papers they will explain sentence by sentence what they imagine in their head about the
passage.

Description Rationale
UDL principle & description (at least 1): Self Currently my students do not like the thought
Regulation - promote expectations and beliefs of reading anything unless it is a message from
that optimize motivation a girl because of learning disabilities so
hopefully giving them belief that this strategy
can help make reading easier will instill
motivation.
Lesson activities # of minutes:__15__
(Content, methods,
strategies, procedures, Explaining the strategies and how using them will make what is being read easier to
formative assessment) comprehend.

UDL Description Rationale:

Representation
This entire lesson plan is based around decoding texts and how imagery
Support Decoding of strategies can help enhance the students reading experiences.
Texts
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Expression & The action during this activity is everytime I add another sentence to
Action a story, We, as a class the continue to grow the imagery that is in our
heads. Understanding that creating imagery causes readers to
understand what picture the author is creating.

Engagement Having a plan and strategies when reading a text that needs to be
comprehended can have a huge impact on how much material is being
comprehended and how much is not.
Support planning
and strategy
development

Closure # of minutes:___10___

End with 14 slides walking through small prompts where the students will share what imagines are
in their heads when it is being read

UDL principle & description (at least 1):

Comprehension: Explaining what they see when they read the prompts and how creating
imagery helps them remember what they read.
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Instructor Comment copied from Canvas: “Comments in rubric” Rubric comments pointed towards improvement of vagueness

throughout the lesson plan.