First+Grade+Active+Reading+Lesson

Unit: Lesson Plan for Active Reading Stategy- Response To Literature Grade: K-1 Teacher Name: Barb Freouf School: Burwell Elementary

Standards:

Objective: Students will increase vocabulary and learn to categorize words into Who, Action, Where, When and What before they start Sentence Building.

Content Lesson: Each student will give 5 words (for example dog, pool, bike, man,run,cat) ** taking turns and rotating around the room. The words will be written by the teacher on board/chart. The teacher will then put one of the category words( Who, What, Action,Where, When) on separate sheets of paper and hang them in different areas of the room. (You might want to have this done ahead of time) Writing the student’s suggestions on sticky notes hand them to students one at a time and have them decide which category the word belongs under and put the sticky note on that piece of paper. You can try to come up with words if some of the categories do not have stickies on them or save that for another time. Take some of the words and find words that rename it. For instance the word “house” could have words like hut, shelter, home, residence,abode. *You could draw a house shape on a paper and put these words inside the shape. **or Students could be given picture file cards to be placed in each category if they are not familiar with words yet.

Closure: Challenge students to say a sentence using one of the words in a sentence. Who can use two the words in a sentence? Can you use one word from each category in a sentence? The teacher could write them on the board/chart paper or just have students listen.

Materials: Marker board and or chart paper or picture file cards Sticky note pad and marking pen/pencil Sheets of laminated paper with these words written on top; Who Where When Action Sheets of paper to sketch pictures of words on

Duration: 2 to 5 days