Date:
Subject: Reading
Teacher: A. Brown
Grade: 2
Standards of Learning:
2.2 The student will continue to expand listening and speaking
vocabularies.
* Use words that reflect a growing range of interests and
knowledge.
* Clarify and explain words and ideas orally.
* Give and follow oral directions with three or four steps.
* Identify and use synonyms and antonyms in oral
communication.
2.3 The student will use oral communication skills.
2.4 The student will use phonetic strategies when reading and
writing.
2.5 The student will use meaning clues when reading.
* Use pictures and diagrams.
* Use information in the story to read words.
* Use titles and headings.
2.11 The student will locate information in reference materials.
K.5 The student will understand how print is organized and read.
* Hold print materials in the correct position.
* Identify the front cover, back cover, and title page of a
book.
* Follow words from left to right and top to bottom on a
printed page.
* Match voice with print, associating oral phonemes,
syllables, words, and phrases with their written forms.
1.14 The student will alphabetize words according to the first
letter.
* Use a picture dictionary to find meanings of unfamiliar
words.
* Make a personal dictionary or word list to use in
writing.
Techniques: Guided Reading
Grand Conversation
Strategies: Activate prior knowledge
Organizing ideas
Listing
Skills: Sequencing
Increase sight word vocabulary
Increase meaning vocabulary
Increase vocabulary
Locate specific information
Sort in alphabetical order
Follow directions
General Objectives:
The student will:
1. Go to the library
2. Listen to a lecture on alphabetizing
3. Listen to the book Librarians Community Workers
4. Participate in a discussion on librarians
5. Utilize alphabetizing skills with words
6. Utilize alphabetizing skills in the library to find books
Specific Objectives:
The student will:
1. Go to the library
2. Sing the alphabet song
3. Have a grand conversation about how to alphabetize words
4. Take the paper with the word on it and make an alphabetized line of words
5. Take the cut out spelling words and alphabetize them individually
6. Listen to the story, Librarians Community Workers
7. Listen to the librarian talk about her duties and listen to her explain the new
vocabulary words on the board about her job
8. Locate the book of your choice in the library using the card catalog or by using
the computer catalog
Procedures for the teacher:
Before Reading:
1. Discuss with the students the trip to the library including listening skills,
appropriate behavior, and what they will be learning at the library.
2. Go to the library
3. Sing the alphabet song as a class
4. The students will be taken on a tour of the library and shown how alphabetical
order is utilized. The students will then be asked to participate in a grand
conversation on how we alphabetize words.
5. The teacher will then pass out a piece of construction paper with a word on it to
all of the students. The students will then try to put all the words in alphabetical
order by standing in the order next to each other in a line.
6. When the teacher checks the order of the students, one by one she will dismiss
them back to their seats with a bag of library words cut into individual pieces of
paper so only one word is on a strip of paper. The words will be scanner, library
catalog, audiovisual equipment, microfilm readers, librarian, books, videos, and
encyclopedia.
7. The students will independently put their cut up library words in alphabetical
order
During Reading:
8. Conduct a guided reading experience. Read the story aloud to the students. After
page five ask, “How do librarians find books easily?” After page 15 write the
bolded words on the board. Ask the students what each word means, such as
scanner, library catalog, audiovisual equipment, and microfilm readers. Once
page 23 is read add the word literature to the vocabulary list on the blackboard.
Ask what the word literature means. After reading page 25 ask who would like to
be a librarian and why.
After Reading:
Respond to the text:
9. The librarian will talk about her duties. She will explain and/or show the vocabulary
words on the blackboard. She will show the students where to find certain books in the
library. She will explain why the library alphabetizes the books. She will show them
how to locate books and how to check them out.
Exploring the text:
10. The students will then explore the library independently. They will walk around and
look at the different books. They will see what opportunities the library offers that they
can take advantage of.
Applying the text:
9. The student’s will chose a book from the library to check out and take home.
They will locate the book of their choice by using the card catalog or computer
catalog.
Closing: The lesson will end by having all the students come together with the book they
checked out and discussing the procedures they went through to find their books. They
will review over what the words on the board mean also.
Evaluation: During this lesson the teacher will evaluate the students’ ability to listen
and answer questions during the story. They will be assessed by how well they answer
the questions on the new vocabulary words about the library. The teacher will also
observe the students while they arrange themselves in alphabetical order with their
construction paper word. They will also be assessed when they arrange their spelling
words in alphabetical order. The final evaluation will be based on each student’s ability
to find the library book of his or her choice and successfully check it out.
Materials: 1 piece of construction paper per student with a different word written on
each, library word bags, library, library books, chalkboard
Extension: Have the students put their spelling words in alphabetical order for
homework occasionally. Have the students continue to go to the library and locate
certain books on a regular basis to practice their alphabetizing skills.