Making Predictions

Name: Eden Peters

Date: Wednesday February 1, 2017

Grade: 1/2 Split Class

Unit/Subject: Making Predictions (Literacy) – Worked with the ELL students

Materials

• The book ‘Brave Irene’ by William Steig

• Paper

• Markers

Objectives

1. To enhance the children’s understanding of making predictions before, during and after reading the text

2. To assist the children in making connections to themselves, the world, and other texts while making predictions

3. To encourage the children to use their background knowledge when making predictions

Anticipatory Set

Before bringing out the book, I will review the concept of making predictions with the three children

• We will go over the three sentences:

• I think that...

• I think this because… and,

• I know...

Teaching (Step by step discussion for how the lesson will be taught)

Instructional Input

What knowledge will you communicate to the children so that they understand the objective of the lesson

• Before reading, we will look at the cover page, exploring the pictures and the title of the book in order to make a prediction

Guided Practice

What activities will the students perform under your supervision to ensure that they are able to practice the concept taught? How will you support students when errors are made?

• The children will work together (in the group of three) and discuss what they think is going to happen in the story

• I will stop at different points in the story and ask them to make a prediction about what will happen next

Modeling

How will you demonstrate the skill or competence so the student will also be able to do it?

• While reviewing ‘Making Predictions’, I will model a level 4 prediction to the children using the three sentences listed above (I think that, I think this because, and I know)

Checking for Understanding

How will you check that the students have understood/learned the objectives?

• Before the last page of the story, I will stop reading and ask the children what they think is going to happen next

• They will think about their predictions and then write them down (and then hand them in for me to review with the teacher to see what the children understand and what we need to work on)

Questioning Strategies

What types of questions might you ask to probe for higher thinking level?

• Throughout the lesson, I will ask the children questions to encourage them to make sense of their predictions. I will ask questions such as:

• Why do you think Irene is brave?

• When have you been brave before? What did you do that was brave?

• Do you know anyone else who has done something brave before?

Closure

The closure of the activity is going to be when the children hand in their papers. I will tell them that they did a great job and that we are going to review it again another day

Independent Practice

In order to ensure the children are working on this at home, I will tell them to make predictions and connections in their own lives. For example, what they think is going to happen next on a TV show, or perhaps making connections from a story they are reading with their parents to one that we have read in class

Reflection

I think that this activity went very well. With guidance and a little bit of support, Child K was able to create a level 4 prediction with lots of detail and connection. Child I and Child S needed more support than Child K in completing the assigned task, however they both made progress throughout this lesson. If I were to plan another activity on making predictions, I would use a book with less text on each page. I feel that there were too many words on each page for these specific children as they are ELL, and the text itself was slightly difficult.