Lesson Plan

Rachel Mixtacki

SPE 612

September 23, 2014

Lesson Topic: Making mental images while you read

Grade level: 1st
Learning Goal:
(Content
Standard/Common
Core)

Total Time: ~30 minutes (9:45-10:15)

# Students: ~46

Students will be able to make pictures in their mind as they read

and be able to articulate through drawing and/or through talking
with peers or teachers what they are picturing in their minds.
MainlyRL.1.7 Use the illustrations and details in a story to describe its
characters, setting or events.
Touches onRl.1.1-Ask and answer questions about key details
RL.1.2-Retell Stories, including key details, and demonstrate
understanding of their central messages.
RL.1.4-Identify words and phrases in stories or poems that suggest
feelings or appeal to senses.

Target Goal or Skill:

Essential Question(s):

Students will be able to visualize what they think they see from the
words.
How do we make mental pictures in our heads to become better
readers?
What are ways that we perceive these pictures in our heads?

Topical question(s):

-What do you see when you read? What do you hear? Taste? Feel?
Smell?
- How do we use this to become better readers?
- Can we picture characters, settings and events?

Instructional
Objective(s):

Students will be able to:

-Create an image of what they see, hear, feel, smell and taste
-Communicate with a partner or the class about what they are
going to sketch
- Listen and imagine what the pictures will look like

Assessment
(Criteria / Look Fors/
Performance Tasks)

Formative Assessment:
-Can students make pictures of what they are reading or what is
being read to them?
-Shown through teachers looking at the pictures that students have
drawn.

Summative Assessment:
-Can students use this reading strategy in their daily practice?
Disabilities/Diverse
Needs Represented
Student
Accommodations and/or
Modifications
Instructional Procedures
(including specific times)
Introduction:
(including motivational
hook where applicable)

Learning Activities:

Closure:

Academic Language

Language Demands
(see Handout)

- ELLfive students ranging from 1.5 to 6

- One student with aide- developmental challenges
-

Slowing down
Partner talks
Check in with students

9:45 - Students to the carpet with clipboard and pencil.

- Ask what some good strategies are for good readers
- Introduce lesson- good readers make pictures in mind as they
read. Using senses
- Close eyes and picture the words
- Read the first snippet from the book, students think for a
second what their 5 senses are doing after hearing section.
- Turn and talk to carpet buddy about what they see/what they
are going to draw
- Reread slowly
- Give students time to sketch at the carpet
9:55 - Pick a few to share to the class
- Read the second and final snippet
- Sketch
- Quick turn and talk showing/explaining what they drew
10:05 - Read Where The Wild Things Are
- Dont show the pictures right away so they need to imagine
them
- Stop a few times, share ideas of what they are seeing while
listening to the story
- Wrap up- Have students think about their sketches
- Are they the same as the book? Do they need to be? Why?
- Reiterate what students
- Set a timer for students to color pictures before switching to
next activity (read to self)
- Previewing
- Imagination
- Envisioning
- Predicting
- Visualize
Function: Interpreting what the words mean to you
Vocabulary: Imagination, envision, predicting, visualize
Syntax: Through pictures
Discourse: Through pictures, student and student interaction,
teacher and student questioning and discussing

5 Questions (Blooms)

Curriculum (APA)
e.g.
Investigations in
Number, Data, and
Space. (2012).
Pearson.
Materials

Notes

-What are some strategies for reading books? [level 1]

-Can you recall what you have heard in picture form? [Level 1]
- Can you explain what you drew/what you see in your head?
[Level 2]
- How can you illustrate what you have heard? [Level 2]
-Can you imagine/make up a picture in your head of the imagery of
words that were said? [level 6]
-Teachers College Reading and Writing Project; Reading Curricular
Calendar, First Grade, (2013-2014) Unit oneReaders Build Good
Habits, readingandwritingproject.com

-Book Where the Wild Things Are

-Clip board
-Pencil
-Worksheet
-Crayons
Students did a similar lesson yesterday; build off of what they
learned yesterday.