Learning Context/ Introduction
Second-grade students will develop skills by predicting and sequencing the events from the book The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything by Linda Williams, using the SMART Board.
Essential Question
How can sequencing events help predict the outcome of a scenario?
Duration
Day 1, 30 Minutes - Picture walk of the book and predictions
Day 2, 30 Minutes - Share predictions, key words, read book aloud to the students, sequence events
Day 3, 30 Minutes - Sequence events, review key words, reread the book aloud to the students, have them join in with repeated events, individual students will use the SMART Board to rearrange the events in sequential order.
Procedure
Day 1- Anticipatory Set: Look at the cover of the book and have students share their ideas of what they see. Next, students will do a picture walk of the book The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything by Linda Williams, but stop at the page when the lady is looking out her window. Have a class discussion on what they are seeing, as they are telling a story.
Independent Work: Students will draw their prediction and write a sentence of what they drew.
Day 2- Anticipatory Set: Students will share their predictions about the ending of the book. We will then go over key words they will hear in the book (e.g., clomp, wiggle, shake, clap, nod, and boo). Practice reading the words together. Ask students what these words mean and have them demonstrate the words to help them remember them. Read the book aloud to the students and check for understanding.
Independent Work: Have the students sequence the story with the sentence strips and check them.
Day 3- Anticipatory Set: Have students sequence with sentence strips and read the key words. Reread the story to the students. Have them join in with any sequencing that they can remember and on key words.
Independent Work: Students will individually go up to the SMART Board and rearrange the lines in sequential order. (Open SMART Notebook, go to open, and click on Sequencing- The little old lady). Students will have teacher assistance printing off their final work.
*Use the sentence arrangement in the SMART Board Lesson Tool Kit and modify it as needed.
Assessment
See attached rubric:
Rubric- Scarecrow.doc
Student Work
Students will draw a prediction and sequence the events from the book using the SMART Board. They will reorder pre-established events. When finished, the students will have assistance printing off their final piece of work.
Due to the nature of my classroom, it was difficult to have a high, medium and low. All three students needed some type of assistance. Therefore, there were two high and one medium.
See Attached- High and Medium Sequence Work Sample
See Attached Graded Rubrics
Predicting and Sequencing
Related Resource
I used the book, The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything, by Linda Williams, using the SMART Board. ISBN # 9780064431835
Williams, Linda, & Lloyd, Megan. (1986). The Little old lady who was not afraid of anything. Harper Collins Publisher.
This is a great website for a Scarecrow Unit: http://www.teachingheart.net/scarecrow.html. I adapted the idea of sequencing and made an activity on the SMART Board
Instructional/Environment Modifications
Instructional Modifications: A Teacher's Assistant was present in the classroom. Lesson was taught several times due to conflicting schedules. Students were read sentences for both sequencing sentence strips and SMART Board. Strips had pictures on them for a visual as well as numbers on the back for self-checking. Reading for students was done often. **Students were able to do the activities by themselves but needed the story read and needed help spelling.
Environmental: Use the SMART Board, worked in small groups at a table
Reflections and Feedback
This lesson got students actively involved and engaged. They were motivated to participate with the sequencing, both orally and when moving the strips. All three students made predictions that were realistic. If I had to change anything, I would have the students make their own crafts to retell the story in sequential order. Overall, the lesson went well!
