Kingsborough Community College                                                       Lauren Frisone

Dr. Florence Schneider                                                                          EDC 90-01

Activity Plan:  Read Aloud                                                            Sept. 22. 2014

Location: 1st Grade Classroom

Time: 15- 20 Minutes

Number of Children: 28

Materials

• Book 'Is Your Mama a Llama?'
• Venn Chart
• Markers
• Tape

Goal Objective:

Identify similar characteristics. Students will be able to make text-to-self connections. Students develop skills for listening & understanding information. Learn new vocabulary. Children will identify animals & characteristics comparing their similarities & differences.

New York State Common Core State Standard

Make connections between self, text & world around them. (Text, Media, Social interaction)

Learned from Activity:

• Intellectual- Learn new vocabulary words, Identify new types of animals, understand the differences/ similarities of baby animals and their parents.
• Socio-emotional: Demonstrate skills of communicating their ideas and relating to the story.

Introduction & Directions:

1.      Introduce the book, by speaking about the title & recognize the author & illustrator.
2.     Discuss what this book is about "A young Llama named Llyod who asks all his friends "Is Your Mama a Llama?" His friends answers are a sort of riddle that give clues to what each animal is.
3.      Vocabulary, identify key words such as:

• Riddle-A question asked as a game
• Graze- eat on
• Rhyme-is words that end in the same sound in a sentence
• Herd-A group of animals of the same kind

4. Read the story all the way through ( have the children guess the riddle/ rhyme of what animal may be next in the story)

5. Recognize the animals in the story. Allow the children to compare the similarities and differences of the babies & their mothers

6. Chart- Venn Diagram

• 2 circles connecting at some point- outside of the circle will be the animals characteristics
• the circles section connecting will be what the animals have in common.
• Let children choose the 2 animals of their choice from the story
• And go back and refer to the story about the characteristics described about the specific animals the children choose to discuss.
• Children will list the characteristics on the chart for each animals, comparing their likenesses & differences.

                                                   Evaluation

The activity for the Read Aloud learning target was achieved appropriately. The objective was successfully reached. The children participated with responding to the questions and they had recognized the key points I was teaching. The students identified the similarities and differences of the animal characteristics. Students compared animal babies to their adult mothers. The children related to the text by answering & critical thinking of how they are similar to their own parents.

The control of the students needs to be worked on. Using the several signals for the students to stop talking and to focus. Mrs. Cadette & Ms. Pavony use, pointer finger over mouth and hand up with two fingers. Also, counting down from 4-0 .

I need to demonstrate better handwriting when presenting information to the students, showing a good example of the proper way to write upper and lower case letters.