LESSON/ACTIVITY INFORMATION

Title: Friday spelling and reading tests

Your name: Corrie
Lusch

Age or Grade
Level: Second
Grade

Integrated
Disciplines/Subje
cts: Language
Arts

Time
frame for
Lesson: 45
minutes

STANDARDS, OBJECTIVES, ASSESSMENTS & MATERIALS

Nebraska State Standards
LA 2.1
Students will learn and apply reading skills and strategies to comprehend
text.
LA 2.1.6
Comprehension: Students will construct meaning by using prior knowledge
and text information to monitor comprehension while reading grade-level
literary and informational text.
Objectives: During the lesson, students will complete their weekly spelling
and basal reading tests. The goal is for each student to earn a grade of
proficient, which is a minimum of an 84%.
Assessment: The two assessments will be summative and will be used as
part of a report card grade in the area of Language Arts.
Materials: Basal reading tests, pencils, paper, teachers edition textbooks,
student reading books

LESSON PROCEDURES
Anticipatory Set: We will do calendar first then move into our spelling
tests. Before the reading test students will be able to re-read the story to
themselves one last time.
Input/Modeling/Guided Practice/Check for Understanding

Teacher will do:

After calendar, pass out

paper for dictation test.
Model for students how to
head their paper. Read
each sentence aloud and
point out which words they
need to fill in.
Have students separate
their desks.
Read sentences over when
necessary to ensure they
have all the words filled in.

Pass out cloze word test.

Read entire paragraph once.

Read each sentence,

pointing out which words
need to be filled in.

Check with students to

make sure all word blanks
have been filled in.

Take students to the hall

restrooms

Play a GoNoodle brain break

when back from restrooms if

Student will do:

Copy teachers heading and listen

to sentences to fill in words
needed.

Number paper and copy sentences

after the teachers model.
Walk tests over to the red bin to be
checked when finished.

Follow along as teacher reads

cloze story test and fill in the
missing words.

Walk tests over to the red bin to be

checked when finished.

Line up at the doorway for

restroom break.

time allows

Pass out and administer

basal reading tests. Read
all questions and answer
choices aloud to students.

Collect students finished

tests.

Complete basal reading tests by

following along with the teacher
and marking an answer choice for
each question.

Closure: Ask students how they felt the test went. Move desks back
together and stretch.
Differentiation: The tests are read aloud when administered in order to
provide each student the highest chance of success.

LESSON ANALYSIS

Content Knowledge:
These tests will assess how well students comprehend the non-fiction text we
have worked on for the week, as well as their spelling of high frequency
words. Spelling these words will aid them in their writing.
Teaching Methods/Strategies: All students will be taking the test at the
same time. All tests given in the classroom are whole group.

REFLECTION
This weeks testing went particularly well. The students were confident and
felt prepared to do their best. I also have found that incorporating brain
breaks and movement whenever possible keeps students focused on doing
their best on the assessments.