My Grandmother's Journey

Atziry LuceroInstructor Dr. LaraBED 3311June 24, 2015

Domain II — Language Arts, Part II: Reading Comprehension and Assessment, Reading Applications, Written Language, Viewing and Representing and Study and Inquiry SkillsCompetency 004 (Reading Comprehension and Assessment): The teacher understands the importance of reading for understanding, knows components and processes of reading comprehension and teaches students strategies for improving their comprehension.Skill focusing on the competency: The learner will use oral language development, word analysis skills, prior knowledge, language background, fluency, vocabulary development and link text to their lives.Lesson objective:The objective of the lesson is for the students to acquire new vocabulary, comprehend their reading, practice their writing skills and learn about a new culture.Purpose (TEKS): §110.15. English Language Arts and Reading, Grade 4, Beginning with School Year 2009-2010(2) Reading/Vocabulary Development. Students understand new vocabulary and use it when reading and writing. Students are expected to:(B) Use the context of the sentence (e.g., in-sentence example or definition) to determine the meaning of unfamiliar words or multiple meaning words;(E) Use a dictionary or glossary to determine the meanings, syllabication, and pronunciation of unknown words.(3) Reading/Comprehension of Literary Text/Theme and Genre. Students analyze, make inferences and draw conclusions about theme and genre in different cultural, historical, and contemporary contexts and provide evidence from the text to support their understanding. Students are expected to:(A) Summarize and explain the lesson or message of a work of fiction as its theme; (B) Compare and contrast the adventures or exploits of characters (e.g., the trickster) in traditional and classical literature.Procedures:•Before class starts I will already have the Glogster webpage displayed on the board as well as the twenty vocabulary words they will be learning for today’s lesson.•The dictionaries will be placed at the center of their table for the students to use when is time to look up their vocabulary words is.•As the student is entering the classroom in the morning, I will be by the door handing each student a vocabulary word card. Since there are only twenty vocabulary cards, some students will have the same vocabulary word as some of their classmates. In this case if two students get the same word one student will read the word and the other would give an example of the word.•As I am handing the students the vocabulary card I will tell them to sit in their warm up groups for this morning. For we will be learning new vocabulary and learning about a new culture.•Once the students are seated in their warm up groups I will play the YouTube video The Great American Melting Pot by The Schoolhouse Rock.•Once The Great American Melting Pot is done I will tell the students they have five minutes to find their vocabulary word. Once the five minutes is up, I will ask the students to come sit down on the mat because we are now going to read My Grandmother’s Journey as a class.•As the book is being read and the vocabulary are coming up, the student/students will then raise their hand and define the word they were assigned to do.•Then, once My Grandmother’s Journey has been read I will spend five minutes asking the students questions about the book, what they thought about it and what they learned about the book and the culture. • After discussing the book as a class I will tell the students to go back to their groups and write a short paragraph of what they learned from the book in their writer’s journal. Then, as the students write I will hand out the twenty vocabulary words made into an index card booklet for each student to have.

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Vocabulary

MyGrandmother'sJourneyJohn CechSharon McGinley-Nally

Lesson Plan

Author: John CechIllustrated by: Sharon McGinley-NallyEditorial: First Aladdin Paperbacks edition February 1998

About The Book

Quotes"A moving journey that represents those taken by so many residents of this immigrant nation"-Booklist"Turning these pages is like opening a series of gifts"-School Library Journal

GrandmotherKorieGypsies

Video

Main Characters