Activity Plan CHD 118Language Arts for Young Children Gail Multop, Instructor Name: Christina Baker Date:

9/22/2013 Age of Children: 4 or 5 years of age Number of Children: 2 or 3 children at a time Circle one: Speaking, listening, reading, or writing.

Learning objective from VA Foundation Blocks:

Speaking (Listening & Speaking objectives taken from VA Foundation Blocks 1, 2 or 3 as appropriate Writing & Reading objectives taken from Foundation Blocks 4, 5 or 6 as appropriate).

The objective is taken from Foundation Block 2: The child will develop an understanding of words and word meanings through the use of appropriate vocabulary.

Assessment:
Describe specific behaviors and language that the children might use during or after the activity that would show you that they have achieved the learning objective. MAKE SURE THAT YOUR ASSESSMENT ADDRESSES THE OBJECTIVE ABOVE!

Individual children will be able to communicate respectfully to adults and children as well as be able to communicate the importance of asking questions to get to know someone.

Preliminary preparation of students, e.g.

Reading a story, having a discussion about prior knowledge, playing with special materials, etc

Watch different interviews (either homemade or from TV) and point out to your students different techniques the interviewers are using. Such as, asking specific questions, having a clipboard that has questions on it, and respectfully listening to a persons answer to the question asked.

Preparation for activity:

Describe materials & the appropriate environment.

Environment: an area to do the interviews that does not have a lot of distractions and is also quiet.

Materials: -Video camera (have an adult be the camera man) -Microphone (does not have to be real) -Clipboard that has a sheet of paper with questions on it -People to interview -A room to conduct the interview in (a teachers office or classroom)

Description of activity:
If your activity is not wholly original, give the source for your idea.

-Have the children write down three or five questions that they would like to ask people -Choose three students to do the interview -Let them choose who will do what or if they want to rotate in asking questions (while they are choosing, write all of their questions down on one page and place it on their clipboard) -Escort the three children to the person who has agreed to be interviewed -Record the interview between the students and the selected person with the video camera (help a child if he or she is having a hard time reading a question) -After the interview, escort the children back to the classroom -Watch the recorded interview -Ask the students open-ended questions. Such as, what they thought of the interview, if they have additional questions and if they would change anything about their interview. http://iteslj.org/Techniques/Kayi-TeachingSpeaking.html (under the section titled Interviews)

Provisions for special students:

Read pp. 147-156 on special needs to choose one special need & a possible adaptation

Physically Impaired Students: I can help a child who is unable to use his or her arms by writing the questions that they have down on a piece of paper, at the beginning of the activity. I can also hold or have one of the other students hold the clipboard when it is the childs turn to ask questions during the interview. Another way I can adapt the environment to the childs handicap is by making sure that the places we are doing the interviews are wheel chair accessible.

Adaptations for younger or older students:

There are not many adaptions I can do for younger or older students. This activity can be done by both. The only things I can think of is encouraging older students to help the younger students and not to think that the younger students will not be able to accomplish the same things as the older students.

________________________________________________________________ Answer these questions for the one activities you implement with children:

Did you see the evidence of learning you anticipated? Explain. If not, what did you observe. How would you interpret this observation? Self-assessment: What went well and what would you change? Explain.