Language Arts Lesson Plan Reflection 2

Language Arts Lesson Plan Reflection 2

The past two weeks, during my guided lead teaching, my students were introduced to a very different style of teaching. When planning for my unit, I purposely wanted to include engaging lessons that would require my students to hold accountability for their own learning. During the second week of my unit plan, I incorporated cross ability reading groups. 

My students participated in reading groups and learned a variety of skills, both social and academic, during the second week of my unit. The second week of my unit was used to reinforce the skills taught in the first week of lessons. My students worked in reading groups and practiced making connections, asking questions, making inferences, word work, and other comprehension skills that they have been introduced to so far this school year. My students not only worked on academics, but they also had to practice teamwork, working with a small group and cooperation. My reading groups were mixed ability groups, which allowed my struggling students to receive help from the more advanced readers. I truly believe that all of my students were successful learners throughout this week of my unit. 

By incorporating reading groups into my unit plan, I learned quite a lot about my students' literacy practices. My students thoroughly enjoyed working in groups and continue to ask when we will be doing them again. It was very helpful for my students to work together and learn from one another. 

If I was continuing to teach this class, I could easily revisit the material taught in this half of the unit. The reading packet that the students worked together to complete allowed my students to practice skills that they have been introduced to prior to these lessons. The reading groups were intended to strengthen the students' understanding of reading comprehension strategies. The reading group activity could easily be revisited by using the same reinforcement packet with another text. 

If I was to reteach the lessons in the second half of my unit, I would not include pages in the reading packet that my students are not familiar with. I had planned for my students to look up various words from their books in a dictionary, but they have never used dictionaries before. This was asking a bit too much from my students.