Enrichment Lesson – No David! and Emotions
Monday, October 24th, 2011
Julia Cassel, Joey Crume & Nikki Weston
Overview
This is the first Enrichment day with our new group of students. We will be focusing on
reading with emotion and noticing emotions in a story for the entire Enrichment period. In this
first session, we will be modeling a pre-school level book to show, in a basic form, how emotion
plays into a story.
Students – 2nd Grade
Kayla B. (absent)
Keon H.
Atzel J.
Marcus K. (moved schools)
Standards - 2nd Grade English/Language Art
READING: Word Recognition, Fluency, and Vocabulary Development
2.1 Students understand the basic features of words. They see letter patterns and know
how to
translate them into spoken language by using phonics (an understanding of the
different letters
that make different sounds), syllables, and word parts (-s, -ed, -ing). They
apply this knowledge to achieve fluent (smooth and clear) oral and silent reading.
2.1.6 Read aloud fluently and accurately with appropriate changes in voice and
expression. (Core Standard)
Materials
Emotion cards
No David! By David Shannon
Picture/Sentence sheet
Lesson
1. Introduction of Butler teachers and Central Elementary students
- Getting to know the students – what grade, teachers, favorites….
- “My name is “”, my wife’s name is “”, we live in “”, and we life to “”.
2. Read Aloud – No David! By David Shannon
- picture walk
- grasp the meaning of the story and the emotions that play into it
- the words will be covered with post its
- introduce David Shannon
- read story
- Ask: “How would I read…?”
- looking at the punctuation, the emotions on the characters’ faces and the feeling
of the
story.
3. Emotion Cards
- How does this word make you feel?
- What other words are similar?
- The emotions that we will used will be commonly know so they will be familiar with
what we are asking
Ex: “How would you look if you were scared?”
4. Writing Component
- Have the students pick an emotion card, and then have them write the word and draw
a picture to make a connection with the emotion.
Reflection
I thought that this lesson went really well! I was extremely surprised by this because I didn’t
know what was going to happen compared to the last Enrichment group. I was really surprised
that we only had two students in our group; Kayla was not at Loving Care, and Marcus had
moved to a different school. I am glad that we had planned out previously who was going to
instruct which part of the lesson because it made the instruct flow and we could actually coteach. I was really happy about this because I would be able to teach some, and then I could also
observe Joey, Julia and the students during the rest of the lesson. And this plan seemed to
worked well, and I would hope that we could keep this style of instruction and planning for the
rest of the Enrichment session. I was the one that got to do the read aloud. I was really happy
about that because I absolutely adore this book, and other works by David Shannon. I think I did
a good job with the read aloud. I wish I would have gotten some feedback from Julia and Joey; if
there were any improvements that could help in the future.
One thing that I noticed that Atzel was most likely an English Language Learner, because
of the way he pronounced his words, and he had a Spanish accent. It wasn’t that prominent, but
we should look into making some adaptations for Atzel in future lessons.