Detailed Lesson Planning: Reading (The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats)

Lesson Plan Information

• Subject/Course: Language
• Grade Level: Grade 7
• Topic: The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats
• Length of Period: 50 minutes
• Facilitator:
• Date/Time:

General Objective(s):

The students will:

• Use self-correction strategies such as re-reading, asking questions.

• Use their knowledge of word endings with “ing” and “ed” to recognize the same word in different forms.

• Use a variety of reading strategies to understand a piece of writing (e.g., reread, predict content, ask questions).

1. Lesson Section - Icebreaker

Introduction (motivational steps/hook/activation of students’ prior knowledge)

Activities -

Teacher's Activities

Motivation / invitation to read –activating prior knowledge

To gain students’ attention, sing: Ten Little Snowmen

Lyrics of the Song:

One little, Two little, Three little snowmen,

Four little, Five little, Six little snowmen.

Seven little, Eight little, Nine little snowmen, Ten little

snowmen round. (Repeat 2x)

Dramatic walk in the snow:

Invite students to take an imaginary walk in the snow.

1. Where do they see snow?

2. What sounds might the snow make?

3. What might they do in the snow?

4. What would happen if they brought the snow inside?

5. Elicit words from the story to activate prior knowledge and make connections to their personal experiences.

Activities -

Students Activities

• The student will sing the song Ten Little Snowmen.

• Students must listen attentively and answer the question raised by the teacher.

Learning Materials

1. Overhead Projector (PowerPoint presentation)

Time - 5 minutes

2. Lesson Section - Introduction

2.1. Before Reading:

Introduction of the Book

Title: The Snowy Day

Author : Ezra Jack Keats

Activities -

Teacher's Activities

*During students’ independent work, the teacher will complete one or two running records.

Draw students’ attention to the title of the book and the author. Ask whether they have read other poems or stories written by this author.

Activities -

Students Activities

Students will pay attention to the teacher and answer the question raised by the teacher.

Learning Materials

1. Overhead Projector (PowerPoint presentation) .

2. A copy of the guided reading book: The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats for each student in the group .

2.2. Predictions using the cover

Illustrations

Activities -

Teacher's Activities

Ask students to predict what the story might be about by observing the cover illustrations.

• Let’s look at the cover.

a) What season is it? How do we know?

b) What is the little boy doing? What sounds might he be making?

• Elicit sounds that snow might make as he is walking in it.

• Point at the footprints and ask –

a) What are these called?

b) What do you think this story might be about?

Activities -

Students Activities

Students will pay attention to the teacher and answer the question raised by the teacher.

Learning Materials

1. Overhead Projector (PowerPoint presentation) .

2. A copy of the guided reading book: The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats for each student in the group .

2.3. Book Introduction:

• Making Connections

• Activating prior knowledge

Activities -

Teacher's Activities

Walk through the book, talking about the story found in the pictures and looking for ways to connect students’ prior knowledge with the story. Scaffold important or new language/structures found in the story by drawing students’ attention to clues found in the pictures and activating prior knowledge.

Activities -

Students Activities

Students will pay attention to the teacher

Learning Materials

1. Overhead Projector (PowerPoint presentation) .

2. A copy of the guided reading book: The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats for each student in the group .

2.4. Vocabulary

(The teacher will emphasize the vocabulary words)

Activities -

Teacher's Activities

The teacher will group the students into eleven (11) groups.

• The teacher will advise the students to count 1 to 11 then start again counting to 11 until all students are counted.

• Group them by number. Students who got No. 1 will be Group 1 and students who got No. 2 will be Group 2 and so on.

• Each group will be given by the teacher 3 minutes to let the students read within their group mates.

• After the 3 minutes, the teacher will start the per group reading.

Activities -

Students Activities

• The student will be given an assigned paragraph of the story.

• Every group will be given 2 minutes to read the story within their group mates.

Learning Materials

1. Overhead Projector (PowerPoint presentation) .

2. A copy of the guided reading book: The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats for each student in the group .

2.5. Vocabulary:

• Snowy

• Window

Activities -

Teacher's Activities

Paragraph 1:

This little boy’s name is Peter. One snowy day, he looked out the window. What did he see? He saw snow that had fallen during the night and covered everything.

Activities -

Students Activities

Group 1 students will start reading the 1st paragraph.

Learning Materials

1. A copy of the guided reading book: The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats for each student in the group .

2.6. Vocabulary:

• Snowsuit

• Breakfast

• Path

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Teacher's Activities

Paragraph 2:

He was so excited that he put his snowsuit on after breakfast and went outside to play. Look how high the snow is piled on the street to make a path for walking.

Activities -

Students Activities

Group 2 students will start reading the 2nd paragraph.

Learning Materials

1. A copy of the guided reading book: The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats for each student in the group .

2.7. Vocabulary:

• Pointing

Focus on words that make a sound:

• Crunch

Activities -

Teacher's Activities

Paragraph 3:

Peter walked in the snow. The snow is crunchy. His feet sink in the snow – crunch, crunch, crunch. Let’s say that together – crunch, crunch, crunch. First, he walks with his toes pointing out, then with his toes pointing in.

Activities -

Students Activities

Group 3 students will start reading the 3rd paragraph.

Learning Materials

1. A copy of the guided reading book: The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats for each student in the group .

2.8. Focus on why the author printed s-l-o-w-l-y the way he did

Activities -

Teacher's Activities

Paragraph 4:

Then he dragged his feet slowly to make tracks. What clue does the author give us to tell us how Peter dragged his feet? That’s right – he separates the letters in the word. How do you think he wants us to say the word ‘slowly’?

Activities -

Students Activities

Group 4 students will start reading the 4th paragraph.

Learning Materials

1. A copy of the guided reading book: The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats for each student in the group .

2.9. Focus on words that make a sound:

• Smacking

• Snow-covered

Activities -

Teacher's Activities

Paragraph 5:

Peter found something sticking out of the snow and now he is making a new track. I wonder what it was. Does the picture give us a clue? Yes, he found a stick that was just right for smacking a snow-covered tree.

Activities -

Students Activities

Group 5 students will start reading the 5th paragraph.

Learning Materials

1. A copy of the guided reading book: The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats for each student in the group .

2.10. Focus on words that make a sound:

• Plop

• Exclamation mark!

Activities -

Teacher's Activities

Paragraph 6:

Poor Peter. What happened when he was smacking the snow-covered tree? The snow fell down on his head. What sound might the snow make as it falls on top of Peter’s head? Plop! Let’s say that together. Let’s look at the word plop – how do we know how the author wants us to say that word? That’s right – he put an exclamation mark after the word.

Activities -

Students Activities

Group 6 students will start reading the 6th paragraph.

Learning Materials

1. A copy of the guided reading book: The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats for each student in the group .

2.11. Vocabulary:

• Thought

Activities -

Teacher's Activities

Paragraph 7:

Peter kept walking and thought it might be fun to join the big boys in a snowball fight. Oh, oh, he got hit. He knows that he’s not old enough yet.

Activities -

Students Activities

Group 7 students will start reading the 7th paragraph.

Learning Materials

1. A copy of the guided reading book: The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats for each student in the group .

2.12. Vocabulary:

• Smiling

• Mountain Climber

• Tall heaping

• Mound of snow

Activities -

Teacher's Activities

Paragraph 8:

Peter made a smiling snowman and then angels. Then he pretended he was a mountain climber and climbed a tall heaping mountain of snow. When he got to the top, he slid down.

Activities -

Students Activities

Group 8 students will start reading the 8th paragraph.

Learning Materials

1. A copy of the guided reading book: The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats for each student in the group .

2.13. Vocabulary:

• Packed

• Round

• Firm

• Warm

Activities -

Teacher's Activities

Paragraph 9:

Peter picked up a handful of snow, then another. What did Peter do with the snow? He packed it into a round, firm ball and put it in his pocket for tomorrow. Then he went into his warm house and told his mother about his adventures. I wonder why she is taking off his socks. Maybe they are wet.

Activities -

Students Activities

Group 9 students will start reading the 9th paragraph.

Learning Materials

1. A copy of the guided reading book: The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats for each student in the group .

2.14. Vocabulary:

• Looked

• Pocket

Activities -

Teacher's Activities

Paragraph 10:

Then Peter had a bath and thought about his snowballs. Before he went to sleep, he looked in his pocket. What was he trying to find? His pocket was empty. Where is the snowball? It wasn’t there. How do you think Peter felt?

Activities -

Students Activities

Group 10 students will start reading the 10th paragraph.

Learning Materials

1. A copy of the guided reading book: The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats for each student in the group .

2.15. Vocabulary:

• Melted

• Everywhere

• Deep

Activities -

Teacher's Activities

Paragraph 11:

In Peter’s dream, the sun melted all the snow away. When he woke up, he was very happy. The snow was still everywhere and new snow was falling. After breakfast, Peter called to his friend and they both went out to play in the deep snow.

Activities -

Students Activities

Group 11 students will start reading the 11th paragraph.

Learning Materials

1. A copy of the guided reading book: The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats for each student in the group

Time - 27 minutes

3. Lesson Section - Review

3.1. Strategy Lesson:

Word Endings: ‘ed’ ‘ing’

Activities -

Teacher's Activities

The Snowy Day tells a story that has already happened (maybe yesterday). Explain to students that when someone is telling about a story that happened yesterday – they often use ‘ed’ at the ends of action words or verbs. Sometimes we hear the sound ‘ing’ at the ends of words. ‘ing’ is represented by the letters i, n, g.

Activities -

Students Activities

• Students must listen attentively to the teacher.

Learning Materials

1. Overhead Projector (PowerPoint presentation) .

3.2. During Reading: Reading

Activities -

Teacher's Activities

• Each student has a copy of the book (story). Students read orally.

• The teacher guides and observes the students as they read, keeping track of (and at times discussing) strategy used. He/she evaluates their use of strategies, and their ability to read ‘ed’ and ‘ing’ appropriately. Teacher takes running record on 1 or 2 students.

Activities -

Students Activities

• Students reads orally.

Learning Materials

1. A copy of the guided reading book: The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats for each student in the group .

3.3. Reading the whole story: The Snowy Day

Activities -

Teacher's Activities

The teacher will read the whole story .

Activities -

Students Activities

• Students must listen attentively to the teacher.

Learning Materials

1. A copy of the guided reading book: The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats for each student in the group .

Time - 5 minutes

4. Lesson Section - Consolidation/Recapitulation Questions (Check for understanding / scaffolded practice)

4.1 After Reading:

Comprehension Check

Responding:

Review of initial predictions

Activities -

Teacher's Activities

The teacher will ask key questions to check comprehension:

Retell: What did Peter see when he looked out his window? What were some of the things Peter did outside in the snow? What sounds did the snow make?

Relate: Tell about a time when you walked in the snow like Peter.

Reflect: How do you think Peter would have felt if the snow had really melted away?

Activities -

Students Activities

• Students must listen attentively to the teacher.

• Students will answer the questions raised by the teacher.

Learning Materials

1. A copy of the guided reading book: The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats for each student in the group .

Time - 4 minutes

5. Lesson Section - A. Application

(Moving from guided, scaffolded practice to increasingly independent practice and understanding / gradual release of responsibility)

Activities -

Teacher's Activities

After having practiced in the small group setting during the guided reading session, students will sort word cards with ‘ed’ and ‘ing’ words by their endings. They will orally recall and/or develop simple and complete sentences with selected words. One student will recite the sentence while another acts it out. Demonstrate (with simple words) how ‘ed’ and ‘ing’ can be cut off” to create the root word and then, how ‘ed’ and ‘ing’ can be “added” to change the tense of action words. Word cards will be available at the reading center so that students can gain extra practice reading the word, finding it in the text, matching it to the word in the text and rereading the sentence in which the text is found.

Activities -

Students Activities

• Students will sort word cards with ‘ed’ and ‘ing’ words by their endings.

• They will orally recall and/or develop simple and complete sentences with selected words.

• One student will recite the sentence while another acts it out. Demonstrate (with simple words) how ‘ed’ and ‘ing’ can be cut off” to create the root word and then, how ‘ed’ and ‘ing’ can be “added” to change the tense of action words.

Learning Materials

1. Activity Paper (Student Worksheet) .

5. Lesson Section -B. Exploring: Word Work

Exploring: Word Work

• List ten (10) words ending ‘ed’ based on the story.

• List ten (10) words ending ‘ing’ based on the story.

Activities -

Teacher's Activities

The teacher will ask the students to write twenty (20) words ending 'ed' and 'ing' (10 items for 'ed' and 10 items for 'ing') .

Example: 'ed'

1. Piled

Example: 'ing'

1. Matching

Activities -

Students Activities

Students will write twenty (20) words ending 'ed' and 'ing' (10 items for 'ed' and 10 items for 'ing') .

Learning Materials

1. Activity Paper (Student Worksheet) .

Time - 5 minutes

6. Lesson Section - A. Lesson Conclusion / Assessment

Activities -

Teacher's Activities

Ask:

What did we learn about the endings of certain action words or verbs when the story takes place in the past as it did in our story today? What other ending did we notice on some of our words today?

Activities -

Students Activities

Students will write twenty (20) words ending 'ed' and 'ing' (10 items for 'ed' and 10 items for 'ing') .

Learning Materials

1. Activity Paper (Student Worksheet) .

6. Lesson Section - B. Homework

Activities -

Teacher's Activities

When you do your reading work at home tonight with your take home book, try to look for words that end in ‘ed’ and ‘ing’.

Activities -

Students Activities

The student must answer the homework and submit it at the next meeting.

Learning Materials

1. Index Card

Time - 4 minutes

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