Missouri Pre-Service Teacher Assessment (MoPTA)

Lesson Plan Format

1. Standards/Quality Indicators/Skills
Missouri and national standards, quality indicators, and skills addressed by this lesson
MLS Standard 6-12 Correlation Reading Literary 1A - Standard for Grade 2 a. describe the setting, problems, solutions,
sequence of events (plot), and big idea or moral lesson. Skills addressed by this lesson are the ability to identify the setting,
solutions, sequence of events (plot), and bid idea or moral lesson of a fictional story.

2. Learning Objectives (Goals) and Outcomes

The lesson’s objectives (goals) and learning outcomes appropriate for meeting curricular and student needs
The goals of this lesson are for the student to be able to identify the setting, solutions, sequence of events (plot), and bid
idea or moral lesson of a fictional story. This will allow for in-depth understanding of a story and what happened.

3. Assessment (type[s] of assessment used throughout the lesson)

Assessment(s) before, during, and after the lesson
I will assess the students’ knowledge of story components before the lesson begins. During the lesson and instructional strategies I will
ask questions to assess where the students are in their understanding of story components. After the lesson, students will present to the
class the story components of their book and then complete a short quiz a few days later to make sure they have retained this
information.

4. Lesson Structure and Procedures Sequence of events of the lesson elements.

(The before, during, and after the lesson, e.g., Engagement/Opening, Procedures, Guided Practice, Conclusion)
Opening: Greet the students and jog their memory about previous stories we have read as a class; ask the students if they
remember those stories and the characters in them.

Procedures: Using a Smart Board with a graph showing cells labeled: "setting", "solutions", "plot", and "moral lesson",
explain to the students the definition of each of these factors and then ask them if they remember those aspects of the
stories previously read in class.
Procedures: Ask the students to tell stories about their first day of school. Then allow them to come to the Smart Board
and fill in the graph using the details from their first-day-of-school experience. Encourage open discussion about different
stories with different settings, solutions, plots, and moral lessons.

Guided Practice: Take the students to the library and let them choose short fiction books. Supply them with worksheets
with the same graph on them and encourage them to read the book and then fill out the graph.

Conclusion: Allow each student to present to the rest of the class using the Smart Board and the details from their book
they selected. On a future classroom quiz, include a short story and test the children on their ability to identify these same
aspects from that story. Continue throughout school year to ask the students periodically about these aspects in any story
we may read.

5. Instructional Strategies
Teacher approach to helping students achieve the learning objectives (goals) and meet their needs
Direct instruction from the teacher using a smart board. Discussions amongst the class and then students presenting information
from books they chose to the class.

6. Learning Activities
Opportunities provided for students to develop knowledge and skills of the learning objectives (goals)
Using the smart board and groups

7. Resources and Materials

List of materials used in the planning of and during the instruction of the lesson
Smart board, paper, pencils, books

8. Technology
Instructional and/or assistive technology incorporated into the lesson to enhance instruction and student learning

Smart board

9. Differentiation/Accommodations/Modifications/Increase in Rigor
To help meet the needs of all learners, learning differences, cultural and language differences, etc.
Gifted students may choose 2 books if they wish to. Students who need extra help may share a book for presentation with a partner.

10. Classroom Management

Strategies consistent with the learning needs of the lesson that also meet student behavior needs to help keep students on task and
actively engaged

Following the classroom management plan in place in my classroom, students will meet our classroom expectations, and use Think
Sheets if they are not meeting these expectations.

11. Extensions
Activities for early finishers that extend students’ understanding of and thinking about the learning objectives (goals) by applying their
new knowledge in a different way
Finding the components of a story in all of the stories we read for the school year

12. Follow-up to Today’s Lesson

Quick activity for review or building on today’s learning that will deepen student understanding and interconnect concepts (may be
incorporated tomorrow or throughout the unit)

Small quiz later in the week. Simple journaling could be used later in the school year for students to talk about their night/weekend
and talk about the components of that story.

Additional Information
Any area or lesson component that may not have been covered by this format that you think is vital to include in this lesson
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Edited on June 21, 2014 at 3:29 AM.