Reflection
For my reading lesson I did a read aloud and connected the book to poetry. The students are learning poetry in class right now so this was a
good book to review rhyming and identifying the number or lines and stanzas in poetry. The students were very attentive as I read the book and were not a distraction as I was anticipating. The children were very on point when I asked them which words in the first stanza rhymed, how many lines in the stanza are there, and how many stanzas are on the page. Most of the students already understood that the second and fourth line of each stanza rhymed and they were to look out for that pattern as I read the story. The reason I chose this book was because every student would be able to understand and follow along as well as Easter coming up in the next couple of weeks. At the end of the lesson I asked students for the main idea, characters, and the sequence of events that occurred in the story. I was excited to see that students were able to answer
these questions with no problem. When I asked students to count the number of stanzas and lines in the poem they became really engaged in the activity. They were also engaged when I asked them how many lines are there in total in the story and they needed to come up with a math equation. I have found that integrating different subjects into one lesson challenges students.
My lesson was not as successful as I hoped for because I felt like the students weren’t challenged enough. The book was also on the lower level reading level therefore I felt as if the higher level reading students were bored by the story. I felt like a more challenging book would have probed higher level thinking for the students and they would have been more excited about the lesson and I would have had more participation. The lesson was also very short and when I was finished some students were like “that’s it?” I feel like if I had slowed down the story and went page by page it would have been redundant. I think a longer story would have been more appropriate for this lesson.
After questioning the students and reading over some of their poems, they seem to have met the objective and they are able to distinguish what a stanza is, what a line is, and how rhyming can be incorporated into their poems. Ms. Schultek gave me this book and lesson to do for the class but if I had done this lesson in my own classroom, I would have chose a different book and asked more challenging questions. I would have tried to create a classroom poem where we would create a poem on the board together and then students would be given the opportunity to create their own by using the classroom poem as a guide to help them.
For my reading lesson I did a read aloud and connected the book to poetry. The students are learning poetry in class right now so this was a
good book to review rhyming and identifying the number or lines and stanzas in poetry. The students were very attentive as I read the book and were not a distraction as I was anticipating. The children were very on point when I asked them which words in the first stanza rhymed, how many lines in the stanza are there, and how many stanzas are on the page. Most of the students already understood that the second and fourth line of each stanza rhymed and they were to look out for that pattern as I read the story. The reason I chose this book was because every student would be able to understand and follow along as well as Easter coming up in the next couple of weeks. At the end of the lesson I asked students for the main idea, characters, and the sequence of events that occurred in the story. I was excited to see that students were able to answer
these questions with no problem. When I asked students to count the number of stanzas and lines in the poem they became really engaged in the activity. They were also engaged when I asked them how many lines are there in total in the story and they needed to come up with a math equation. I have found that integrating different subjects into one lesson challenges students.
My lesson was not as successful as I hoped for because I felt like the students weren’t challenged enough. The book was also on the lower level reading level therefore I felt as if the higher level reading students were bored by the story. I felt like a more challenging book would have probed higher level thinking for the students and they would have been more excited about the lesson and I would have had more participation. The lesson was also very short and when I was finished some students were like “that’s it?” I feel like if I had slowed down the story and went page by page it would have been redundant. I think a longer story would have been more appropriate for this lesson.
After questioning the students and reading over some of their poems, they seem to have met the objective and they are able to distinguish what a stanza is, what a line is, and how rhyming can be incorporated into their poems. Ms. Schultek gave me this book and lesson to do for the class but if I had done this lesson in my own classroom, I would have chose a different book and asked more challenging questions. I would have tried to create a classroom poem where we would create a poem on the board together and then students would be given the opportunity to create their own by using the classroom poem as a guide to help them.