UDL Lesson Plan #2

Teacher : Ian Wharton

Grade: 2^nd

Unit : Homes of Yesterday and Today

 

New York Learning Standards

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.2.3

Write narratives in which they recount a well-elaborated event or short sequence of events, include details to describe actions, thoughts, and feelings, use temporal words to signal event order, and provide a sense of closure.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.2.5

With guidance and support from adults and peers, focus on a topic and strengthen writing as needed by revising and editing.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.2.6

With guidance and support from adults, use a variety of digital tools to produce and publish writing, including in collaboration with peers.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.2.7

Participate in shared research and writing projects (e.g., read a number of books on a single topic to produce a report; record science observations).

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.2.8

Recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question.

 

Objective

Each child will produce several writings or books using digital photography, My Own Bookshelf and Kid Pix.

 

Goals

• Each student will increase his/her reading and writing skills based on their grade level Quarterly Writing Assessments, DIBELS, Star Early Literacy, Standards based report cards, and teacher observations.
• Each student will increase his knowledge of the need for shelter and how it changes with the times based on writings, pre/post tests, and Standards based report cards.

 

Strategies:

1. Gather information

2. Quote or paraphrase data.

3. Presentation

 

Differentiation of Instruction:

Students are grouped by readiness.

Choices are provided to students.

 

Vocabulary

log cabin, long house, Native American,  wigwam, shelter, log

cabin, fireplace,  voyage, Pilgrim, apartment, survive

turkey, cooperation

 

Developmental Procedures

1. Students will take part in two separate assessments. The first is Star Early Literacy. It is a 25 question literacy test to establish a baseline reading score. The students will do this in the computer lab all at the same time. This assessment takes approximately 20 minutes.

2. Each student will be given the DIBELS assessment using the Palm OS to record responses. The Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS) are a set of standardized, individually administered measures of early literacy development. They are designed to be short (one minute) fluency measures used to regularly monitor the development of pre-reading and early reading skills.

3. Administer vocabulary pre-test.

4. Students will view the video “Town Mouse and Country Mouse” .After we will meet in the circle and discuss why we each like our own home the best. Students will transfer their thoughts about their homes to their journal and do a writing about why they like their home.

5. To introduce the story of the pilgrims and how they had to leave their own home we will show the “Pilgrims of Plymouth” . In a circle discussion, students will center on how we would feel if we had to leave our home and all of our friends. The student will write in their journal about this topic.

6. Each day read stories about the pilgrims leaving their home and traveling to a new land. We will introduce their relationship with the Native Americans and how the people native to the new land helped the pilgrims survive.

7. Comparisons will begin regarding the clothing, food and homes of both groups of people.

8. Students will construct a diorama of a log cabin and tepee. Other Native American homes such as the wigwam and longhouse will be discussed. Pictures of these will be found on the internet. Discussion of how our own homes, and homes of Indian and Pilgrim homes are the same and different.

9. Field trip to Edgar Allen Poe’s Cottage in Brooklyn.

10. Upon return, students will graph favorite. (fireplace  in every room, size of house, pianos, other generated by students.)

 

11. In a  group discussion, students are to do a comparison of their home and Poe’s cottage . This is recorded on large chart paper.

 

12. The field experience will be recorded through digital photography. Class and

individual books will be written, published, and shared depicting the students thought about the house. Students will share their books on My Own Bookshelf as well as in a whole group setting using the Smart Board.

 

13. Graph student housing-single family, apartment, trailer.

 

14. Post test in Star Early Literacy, vocabulary, and DIBELS will be administered by

Teacher.

 

Materials needed

Smart Board/projector        Cameras

Computers                             Journals

Scanner

Printer