Mini lesson
Overview
Migrating birds lesson for vocabulary.
Migrating Animals Vocabulary understanding
Reading Mini-Lesson
Name: John O’Neill
Lesson Title: Migrating Animals Vocabulary understanding
LINK TO FIRST MINI-LESSON
Lesson Objectives List 1-2 objectives that you want your students to achieve |
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Materials List and link the materials for this lesson. | Materials & Links: Protecting-Migrating-Animals |
Introduction (Activate prior knowledge/schema.) 3 mins | “Remember how/when…..” Try to write down and use your prior knowledge of migrating animals? Does anyone have examples they would like to share? What animals do we see daily that are migrators? |
Presentation of the Material (What task will students do while you are reading?) 10 mins Listening & Writing | “As you listen, I want you to…” As you listen to the article try to identify three main ideas, additionally, write down any words or phrases that were unknown to you or you were unfamiliar with. With each word try to take a guess at what the word means by using evidence and context clues in the text. |
Teach the Lesson (How are you going to connect what you read with your content?) 10 mins Scaffolding | “Watch me as I….” Pick out words or phrases that I find challenging to myself, and I will try to use context clues in order to figure out the meaning of the word or phrase. |
Active Learning (What practice activity will students complete to apply what you just presented?) 10 mins Speaking/Engagement | “Now is your opportunity to try…” Volunteer your findings of the main ideas and words that you found were challenging. What were some of the main points of the article? What did you think were difficult words or phrases? |
Connect (How will you connect the picture book to the main lesson? What will they read that will connect to the book?) 5 mins Reading & Reflection | “Read this and complete a…” Now that we have a better idea of what the main points of the article and the more challenging phrases and definitions go back over, lets read the article one more time and we will see if we all better understand it this time around. |
Assessment (What activity will students complete to demonstrate their understanding?) 7 mins Evaluation | “Let’s see how well you understood by …” going over the definitions of we picked out and seeing them on a “thinglink” |
It is so important to improve the skills of childhood literacy in order to help prepare them for secondary literacy. Students that start reading from a young age have improved vocabulary and general understanding of literacy. In addition, students that do not engage in adapting their childhood reading are far more likely to face literacy struggles growing up. According to readingpartners.org , “poor educational outcomes are linked to other negative consequences, such as poverty, unemployment, illness, and crime.” This shows how valuable early literacy is in promoting a promising future for students.
This short article includes a picture and links to some of the words that may be challenging. In addition, the article has a video for context. The video transcript reads the article out loud and gives easy to follow along visuals or migrating animals. This would be a good alternative to help encourage struggling readers to read and get into different topics they need to read about.
References
“Three important reasons why we can't ignore early literacy,” January 8, 2018, By: Madeline Hatcher (https://readingpartners.org/blog/three-important-reasons-cant-ignore-early-literacy/)
“Why is Early Literacy Important?” By: Raising Readers (https://www.raisingreaders.org/understanding-early-literacy/why-is-early-literacy-important/)