Jordyn Messer

Lesson Plan 4 How To Make A Drum Level H

Skill Objective: After reading through the text, the students will be able to sequence events on
how to construct a drum and be able to identify verbs various sentences through the text.

Introduce & Connect: I started off the lesson by asking a couple of questions: Who can play the
drums? Does anyone know someone that can play the drums? Has anyone ever made a drum
before? Once I asked these questions, I told the small group that we were going to read a
nonfiction text on how to construct a drum out of household items and once we were finished,
we were going to do a couple of activities.

Teach The Skill: We read through the text a page at a time. Everyone in the small group read a
page at a time, including me. As we were reading, I informed the small group to pay attention
to words such as: first, next, then, after that, and now. These words would be helpful in our
activity that we were going to be doing later. Once we were finished I asked the small group if
anyone could remember one of the steps in constructing a drum. Then, I moved on to our
second skill verbs. I asked anyone in the small group if they knew what a verb was. Once we
established it was something we could do, we moved on to our worksheets.

Apply The Skill In Context: I printed off and laminated two different worksheets. The first
worksheet was on sequencing events. On the top of the worksheet it had six boxes and on the
bottom of the work sheet it had six events. The small group had to draw an arrow from the
event to the correct box. Thus, putting the events in order. The second worksheet worked with
verbs. There was eight sentences, all of which were taken straight out of the text. The student
had to underline each verb listed in the sentence. We completed the first three sentences
together, and they had to do the last five independently.

Closure: Once we finished our text and both worksheets, I had each student describe the drum
they would create if they had the supplies to make one.