This week I completed my third and fourth lesson plans for class. I must say, they are getting a bit easier to complete, since the strategies are in our books. These strategies help me to personally set up my lesson plans so that I can help meet both my objectives and instructional goals. In class Monday we worked with strategies in the Ruddell text, and our group was assigned the DRA strategy. After working with this strategy to make a lesson plan as a group, I decided to use this strategy in one of my lessons.
In my lesson, students will be working with the standards 3.ESS2.D2: Obtain and combine inform to describe climates in different regions of the world. Students will also be working with the standards 3.ESS2.D1, which deals with deal with vocabulary terms: average temperature, precipitation, and other related terms to help describe the climate of a particular region. We will begin by writing these words on the SMARTboard and I will ask students to tell me what they think each term means. Afterwards, we will work in our textbooks to learn about how meteorologist use these terms ( which we will have discussed) to tell about a particular climate. Students will work in groups of four later in the lesson to describe the climate of an assigned area and share with the class.
The other lesson plan uses the RAFT strategy from the Buehl textbook. This strategy can be used in so many different ways, and with all content areas. RAFT stands for R-role, what is the role of the writer, who are you? A- audience, who are you writing to? F-Format, What form will your writing assume? T- Topic , What are you writing about?
I chose to use the book Charlotte's Web for this lesson plan. Students will have read through the book and will be asked to write a letter. Students will complete a RAFT Role Definition Chart to help them figure out the personality, attitude, and information (page 175) of their character to help them know how to write, who to write to and so on.
I think I need to try to build a lesson using some of the strategies as a base. I like that idea! I think the DRA strateagy would be very effective. I like the idea of putting students into groups to work on the lesson together. I think it promotes creative ideas and gives students who don't understand a new view of what's being said.
ReplyDeleteI can tell that my lesson plans are becoming easier to put together too, not that it is not hard work, I just feel like I am getting the hang of it more! This class is definitely a great learning opportunity for writing lesson plans!
ReplyDeleteI think you are the first to use the RAFT strategy. I'm glad to see you are getting comfortable trying new strategies in your plans.
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