Madeline Smith Wednesday Sept.

26, 2017
Mrs. Weidman Time: Approx. 9:30
1st Grade
Poetry

Poetry: Fluency Mini-Lesson

Apples, Apples

Lesson Essential Question:

How do you read with expression and fluency by noticing punctuation?

Standards:
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.1.10 With prompting and support, read prose and poetry of
appropriate complexity for grade 1.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.1.4b Read grade-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate
rate, and expression on successive readings.

Learning Objectives Assessment

Students will be able to identify
punctuation in a poem and read with
expression and fluency.
The teacher will assess the class as a
whole and observe the students
highlight punctuation, as well as read the
poem aloud with the class, and then have
them read aloud on their own as a group.

Materials:
Poem: Apples, Apples by Liana Mahoney
Highlighters
Pencil

Pre-Lesson Assignments/Prior Knowledge:

The students have been introduced to the concepts of punctuation and fluency in
previous poetry lessons in their first grade class. They are able to recognize
common punctuation marks like periods, commas, question marks, and exclamation
marks.

Lesson Beginning:
The teacher will ask the students to bring out their copy of Apples, Apples onto
their desk. As a group, the teacher and the students will read the poem aloud
together to re-familiarize the students with the poem.

Instructional Plan:
Before distributing materials, the teacher will review the objectives for the
lesson with the students. The teacher will emphasize how the students are to
highlight the punctuation marks in the poem with a different colored
highlighter than the one they used in the previous lesson.
 The teacher will ask one student from each table group to grab the
highlighters from the back table.
The teacher will ask the students to highlight punctuation marks
individually, and will review the marks with the students as a group with a
copy of the poem projected onto the whiteboard. Two other teachers in the
classroom will walk around and assist students with the task if need be.
The teacher will remind students of the importance of punctuation marks
and how they dictate expression in the poem.
The teacher will have students read the poem aloud by table groups and have
the students accentuate the punctuation marks through their speaking voice.
o Differentiation: During the activity, two teachers will be walking
around and observing the class to assist students throughout the
lesson.
o Questions: How does punctuation affect our reading voices? What
does a question mark make our reading voices sound like? What does
an exclamation mark make our reading voices sound like?
o Classroom Management: Students will be asked to sit at their desks
and work individually. The teacher will remind students of their task
if they begin to get loud throughout the lesson.
o Transitions: The teacher will choose students to get/return
highlighters to avoid unruly behavior in the classroom.
Closure:
The teacher will restate the essential question to the students to see if they grasped
the basis of the lesson. The students will return the poems to their poetry folders.