I felt very
prepared for this mini-lesson. During this lesson I only worked with Kenny,
Javier, and Joseph because Omar was out of the classroom at the time working with
reading specialists. Overall, I think it
went really well and was a positive experience for both me and the
students. I think having new materials
for the students to work with (the train sound blending mat and sound cards) instantly
engaged the students.
My lesson
objection was that students will create and read words using various phonemes
and their blending sound mat.
Specifically my goal was for each student was to successfully read at
least three words and create at least one word on their own. All three of the boys I was working with successfully
met this objective. I taught this
mini-lesson Friday morning during literacy centers when my teacher was also
working with guided reading groups. One
thing that I noticed during this lesson was that the students wanted to finish the
activity quickly so that they could get back to their literacy centers. Because of this I modified the lesson
slightly. I didn't go over all of the
words I had originally planned because I didn't want the lesson to take up too
much time. I made sure that the students
all still meet the lesson’s objectives without it take too much time away from
their center time. This brought to my
attention the difficulty as a teacher to find time to work with small groups of
children. It is important to remember to
not make students feel like they are missing out on what the rest of the class
is doing but rather are at the advantage.
I think that the
materials were a major strength to my lesson.
The materials I created supported
the students in blend sounds together by visually breaking up each sound for
them. A limitation to this lesson was
that the students were limited to the words that they could create own their
own. I specifically provided the
students only with the sound cards that they would need to create certain
words. When the students were asked to
create their own words they were stuck and ended up trying to create words that
we had already worked with. I had to redirect that students to create new
words and then they were able to come up with “and”, “the” & “hat”.
Overall, I think
that my lesson was successful because the each student met my learning goal.
The more practice that the students have with this activity the better they
will get at blending sounds. After the
lesson I left the materials will my mentor teacher so she can continue to work
with these three students.
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