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Learning about Road Construction through Read Aloud - Coggle Diagram
Learning about Road Construction through Read Aloud
Instructional Goals
Standards
Students will develop an understanding of how roads are built and the machines/equipment used to help build a road while also asking/answering questions about key details in the text.
Standard - CC.1.2.K.B
With prompting and support, answer questions about key details in a text.
Content
Road Construction
Machines/Equipment
Standard - CC.1.3.K.D
Name the author and illustrator of a story and define the role of each in telling the story.
Standard - CC.1.2.K.F
With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text.
Materials Used
Anchor text called “Roadwork,”
Machines and equipment paper on the kids desk
Closing worksheet paper to draw their favorite step that they remember and sentence to put with it.
Instructional Strategies
Teacher asking questions, sometimes would repeat questions
students participating in a turn and talk with a partner
students explaining their ideas either to the whole class or to a partner
anchor text and having visual
instruction given to the whole class, then break off into small partners/groups
Technology
Touch Screen Board at the front of the classroom
Describing the Class
5–6-year-old kindergartners
average class size
paying attention pretty well
good mix of both boys and girls
different levels of ability.
Differentiation
presenting lessons to fit all learners' needs and abilities
Management Strategies
Sitting on the carpet while reading the book as a whole class
Moving back to desks to work with a partner or independently
Calling on specific students and asking questions
Using different noise levels while she is talking to the whole class vs when she is talking to one child individually or a partner group
To get the students to talk to their partner she would be repetitive and say “Talk to your partner, talk to your partner right now.”
Student Engagement
Very engaged and not shy
Wanted to answer questions by either raising their hands or by calling out when they were instructed to
Students followed the directions that were given
When the teacher called on specific students they still answered without a problem.
Informal/Formal Assessments
Calling on specific students
Partner work and she would walk around observing and asking specific students questions while they were doing partner work
Closing activity where the students drew a picture of their favorite step that they remember from building a road and they would put a sentence to it by telling the teacher
Other Resources in Classroom
Bright colors
Stuffed animals hanging
Inspirational posters on the wall
ABC train over the board
White board/Touch Screen Board
books/library
Partner desks for collaboration
Board games