LESSON PLAN OUTLINE

JMU Elementary Education Program

Katharine Christovich
Jennifer Trumbo/ Fulks Run Elementary
October 14, 2014/11:00 pm
October 7, 2014

(Include the title of each of the following sections in your written plan.)
A. TITLE/TYPE OF LESSON: Read Aloud Activity/ Ten Tiny Fairies: A Fairy Tale Counting Book
B. CONTEXT OF LESSON
This book is always on the classroom book shelf and I watch almost every single student pick it up
and look at it. My CT informed me that she has not had time to read it aloud even though the students
always ask her to. At this point in the school year, the class is really focusing on the number scale 1-
10 which makes this book very appropriate.
C. LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Understand Know Do
Students should begin to develop
oral language, letter knowledge,
and print and book awareness as
well as numbers and number sense
and patterns and relationships.
Students will know the pattern of
the book in that it counts backwards
from 10. They will know how to
count a group of objects out loud
after being orally asked the question
of how many there are.
Students will raise their hand to
answer the question How many
fairies are on each page?

D. ASSESSING LEARNING
Students will raise their hand, if called on, will correctly answer the question How many
fairies are going to be on the next page? The last page/question will be asked to the entire
class in which each student should be able to state that there are ten fairies again at the end of
the story.
E. RELATED VIRGINIA STANDARDS OF LEARNING (and NATIONAL STANDARDS if required)
Virginias Foundation Blocks for Early Learning: Oral language, letter knowledge, print/book
awareness, numbers and number sense, and patterns and relationships
F. MATERIALS NEEDED
Tiny Tiny Fairies: A Fairy Tale Counting Book (In classroom)
G. PROCEDURE
The entire class will be called to sit on the rug in the back of the classroom and I will sit on the
chair in front of them so I am higher above the class and everyone will be able to see the
pictures. That day in the library I know the librarian is reading a counting book that is counting
goats and it starts at one and goes to the number 10. I will begin by asking the class to think
back to their time in the library and call on a student to tell me what they were counting in the
library. I will call on another student to answer the number they counted to in the library. I will
tell the class that we are going to count fairies in this book and were going to start at the
number ten and work our way down to one.
During the read aloud I will stop at the end of each page and I will ask an individual student to
tell me how many fairies they believe are on the next page. I will read the page again and then
flip the page.
After the read aloud I will have every student count down from ten in order to practice what we
just did in the book.
H. DIFFERENTIATION
I know some students will struggle with the objectives of this lesson because they are still having
a difficult time counting to ten and using inferences to detect patterns. I will scaffold those
students that need it by asking them more questions than just How many? and if they are
really struggling with the pattern I will have them come up to the book and physically count the
amount of fairies they see out loud to the entire class and then answer my question of how
many. This lesson is very accommodating for the amount of different skill levels there are in
the classroom.
I. WHAT COULD GO WRONG WITH THIS LESSON AND WHAT WILL YOU DO ABOUT IT?

The students could easily become unengaged because this is the second read aloud within a two
hour time frame. If this happens I will patiently wait and if the entire class is not settled down I
will only read aloud to those that are paying attention and sitting quietly on the rug.
The lesson might be too easy for the students and they are not challenged enough from the read
aloud. In this case I would just make sure I am better prepared for next time I read aloud to the
class and be sure to really understand what level the students are at.
Lesson Implementation Reflection
The actual lesson did not differ to far from my plan. It worked out that they librarian told me what day she was reading a
counting book as well so I could better plan when I read my book. I believe it helped to keep the consistency of the
learning objectives throughout both lessons and it helped the students improve their assessments. I read to the entire
class the entire time because they were so well behaved and I needed to scaffold some students in my assessment
questions so I do not believe that the lesson was too easy for the class. I asked 9 students the question and out of those 9,
six students answered correctly on their first guess. This shows me that they understood the pattern and the numbers. Two
out of the remaining three needed a little more help than just the question. For both students I flipped to the previous page
and asked how many were on that page, once they answered that correctly, I flipped to the current page and asked how
many we counted on this page, they once again answered correctly so I repeated the descending numbers and reasked my
question and both students were able to answer the question correctly. Only one student out of the nine assessed was
unable to answer the question correctly at all. When I had her come up to the book and physically count the fairies, she
incorrectly counted them which shows me that her understanding of numbers is not at the same level as the other students
in the classroom and she will need more practice with counting to the number ten. The students were engaged the entire
time and they were very fascinated by the fairies which helped with the lesson. Another strength of the lesson was that the
book is always in the classroom so throughout the day I watched several students go back to that book and look over it
which is helping them gain understanding of literacy and the other objectives. A weakness of the lesson was that it was
very short and there were not many follow up activities that could be implemented with the entire class. If I were to do
this lesson again I would come up with a creative craft for the students to make with numbers and fairies because it
seemed like an exciting topic and I believe that they could have benefited from more practice with counting. Overall I was
pleased with the success of the lesson and I do believe the entire class benefitted and learned something from this read
aloud.