Lander University Teacher Education Lesson Plan Template

Rev. 2013

Teacher Candidate: Savannah Taylor

Lesson # ___4___
Subject/Grade: Character Building/Second
Date and Time of Lesson: 11/13/14 at 10am
Learning Objective: Through this lesson I will be using a book as a read aloud tool which the students will
listen to me read in class. After reading the text, students will be able to define sharing and ways to improve
how they share inside and outside of the classroom with a reading reflection of at least 4 sentences.
Alignment with Standards:

SSCA Element(s):
o (1) A safe and civil environment in school is necessary for students to learn and achieve high
academic standards.
o (2) Harassment, intimidation, and bullying, like other disruptive or violent behaviors, are
conducts that disrupt both a students ability to learn and a schools ability to educate its
students in a safe environment.
SC Common Core Standards:
o CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.2.7: Use information gained from the illustrations and words in a print or
digital text to demonstrate understanding of its characters, setting, or plot
o CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.2.3: Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and
challenges

Developmental Appropriateness or Cross-curricular connections: Students are at the appropriateness in their

social development for this lesson because they have had interaction with many different individuals in school
and out of school to have past knowledge on sharing and to have a schema of what sharing is all about. The
emotional aspect of this lesson could be a little deeper since this is trying to develop character for these young
students to carry on with them through their schooling. Physical development doesnt have any
appropriateness in this activity because of the manner of the lesson which is a read aloud and a reading
reflection. This lesson will be very beneficial to students as they continue with their daily activities in the
classroom and would also benefit them outside of the classroom.
Assessment(s) of the Objectives:
Lesson Objective(s)

Assessment(s) of the
Objective(s)

Use of Formative
Assessment

Objective 1
After reading the text, the
students will be able to write a
reflection of 3-5 sentences on
their reflection of the book
with at least one example of
how they can better their
sharing habits. The students
will have mastered the
purpose of the lesson by
writing at least 4 sentences
with one example, as listed
above.

Assessment for Objective 1

Pre- I will ask questions to get
students to think of ways to be
a better citizen in the
community in our classroom. I
will have students to think of
the character traits that are
discussed every month and to
think if there are any that they
need to improve on themselves.
During- I will ask them what
would you do questions? This
will get students to think of real
life situations and what they

For future use in the

classroom, I would know
that the students do have
an understanding of the
importance of sharing and
as a teaching tool, if the
student ever doesnt share
in the classroom, that
writing sample can be
looked back at and
reflected on. If students
have mastered this lesson
objective, then more can
be added on to this like

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might do. This will help them
during the post assessment.
Post- For the post assessment, I
will have students to do a
reading response with a
prompt stating Do you think
that sometimes we forget
about how important sharing
is? How can you be a better
sharing person in our
classroom? They will then
need to write 3-5 sentences
giving at least one example of
how they can better their
sharing habits in our classroom.

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role playing or scenario

prompts to have students
thinking more critically on
character development.

Accommodations:
This lesson should take a total of about 30 minutes (10 for the reading and 20 for the writing sample). For those students
who finish early, I will have them to silently read their library books so that those students who are still trying to
complete the task will have the quietness they need. For those students who do not finish in the time allowed, I will have
them to finish at recess before they can go play, but I do not foresee this being an issue. In past lessons all students really
stay on task and want to complete the objective in the time allowed. I do not have any ELL in my classroom or any other
special accommodations to be made for those students so these do not need to be taken into consideration.

Materials:
- Mine-O-Saur book for read aloud
- Students writing journal
- Pencil
Procedures:
Grouping: Whole class
Probing Question: How important is sharing? Do you share a lot in the community that is our classroom?
Motivation: How do you think our classroom would be if students didnt share? What about at home?
Procedures:
1. Have students move to the rug by tables
2. Then I will start the lesson by asking the probing question and giving students adequate amount to answer
the given question.
3. I will then read the book, Mine-O-Saur I will introduce the book by giving the students a summary of what
the book is about and leave them with a question to think about as they listen to the book, such as Think
about how you would react if you were the Mine-O-Saurs friends? Would you want to still be his friend at the
end of the book? I will use sticky notes to write my questions down so that I am fully prepared and will know
at exactly what point to ask them.
4. After I have finished reading, I will then ask the students what they thought of the book. Was it something you
can relate to? Have you ever been someone who doesnt like to share? Dont you see that it is better to share
with your friends that not to?
5. Once students have answered the question, I will then ask them to go back to their seats and to get out their
writing journal
6. Once students have out their writing journal, I will put the prompt up on the SmartBoard and will have them
respond by writing in their journal
7. I will then give the students the time allowed to respond
8. Once students start finishing up, I will then ask them to read silently in order for everyone else who hasnt
finished the time they need and in order to quietly move on to the next activity.

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Activity Analysis:
The read aloud will probe a real life scenario for students to really think about and that they can relate to their everyday
life and what they do in the classroom. This will also help as they think of the writing prompt. The writing in their journal
will help them to reflect on what they have learned from the reading and to apply it to their life in the classroom and
outside of the classroom. In second grade these are very developmentally appropriate since they are very social and have
a lot of character building in their development as students. I will be using technology in this lesson, the SmartBoard, to
put the prompt up for the students to be able to see clearly.

References:
No references we needed for this lesson.