Week 6 Phonic Awareness

Below is the link to my mini lesson. Please pardon my voice as I am sick.

Mini Lesson

Candidate’s Name: Kylie Hubbard

Grade Level: 4td Grade

Title of the lesson: Verb Tenses

Length of the lesson: 5 15 Minute mini lessons

Central focus: Students will practice identifying words or phrases they are struggling with while reading short stories. Students will familiarize him or herself with tenses by utilizing ABCYA.com, Verb Viper and Word Cloud. Students who need more exposure to verb tenses will utilize the above games on a more frequent timetable. Knowledge of students: Student will use word from their word list to create their Word Cloud.

Key questions: What words do you find hard to remember? What words do you find hard to identify their meanings? What is a verb tense? When do we use them? Many students have experiences identifying words in and out of school. They should be familiar with the how to identify verb and word tenses.

Common Core State Standards Phonics and Word Recognition: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.4.3 Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.4.3.A Use combined knowledge of all letter-sound correspondences, syllabication patterns, and morphology (e.g., roots and affixes) to read accurately unfamiliar multisyllabic words in context and out of context. Fluency: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.4.4 Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.4.4.A Read grade-level text with purpose and understanding. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.4.4.B Read grade-level prose and poetry orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.4.4.C Use context to confirm or self-correct word recognition and understanding, rereading as necessary.

Support literacy development through language This lesson will help to clarify when and how to verb tenses. Vocabulary ●     Words students were struggling with: thought, though, afraid, breathe, breath, brain, put, paired, pair, heard, head, hear, (this will be a growing list) Sentence Level ●       Sentence structure will include: a subject, verb, and object. Discourse ●     Students will work to identify plurals and similar looking words.

Learning objectives Students will be able to identify when to use verb tenses. Students will be able to use the vocabulary words in complete sentences. Students will be able to, by the 5th class, complete all stages of Verb Viper within 90% accuracy.

Formal and Informal assessment Were students to achieve the 90% accuracy in Verb Viper? (Provided via the website) Were students able to remove words from their Word Cloud, because they became familiar with them? Were students able to move past their current Level of Word Identification? Were students able to properly create sentences using their struggling words?

Instructional procedure: Review the meaning of a verb tense. Students will be instructed to log into their ABCYA accounts, which were set up in a previous lesson. They are access Verb Viper. Together, we will read the instructions. Students are to complete each level and wait for the teacher to check their accuracy level. The teacher will then print the screen to record as an assessment. The student will be directed to write sentences, on a piece of paper, using the phrases that were marked incorrect in the Verb Viper assessment. The student then can more onto the next level. Through Word Cloud, students will enter the words that they are struggling with. On a piece of paper, students will write sentences using the words from Word Cloud, which they have been struggling with. Struggling students will be instructed to continue with this practice, while other students take their word lists and create short stories.

Materials: ·       Level words ·       Computer ·       Internet ·       ABCYA.com ·       Pencil ·       Paper

Reflection Were students able to create complete sentences using the appropriate verb tense? Were students able to complete the task on time? Are students more comfortable with verb tenses? Were students able to navigate ABCYA- Verb Viper and Word Cloud?