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Upon administering our pre-assessment, we decided to slightly change our plan for our unit lessons. We discovered that while some students do still have trouble with sequencing stories, much of the class can put events in the correct order. We decided that we should focus in on both comprehension from sequencing and detailed writing using the various parts of a story (characters, setting, problem/conflict, resolution). This new plan will allow us to stick with parts of our initial plan to aid comprehension, especially for those still having trouble, but will also allow us to expand on our lessons.
For our first lesson, we read the book Corduroy to the class. A few of the students had read the book before, but they had not read it as a class. We talked to the students about the order of the book and the sequencing of beginning, middle, and end. In addition, we decided to discuss the parts of the beginning, middle, and end. In the beginning, we discussed and created a list of the characters, settings, and initial problems introduced. In the middle, we discussed the development of the plot, the actions, and the fact that characters and new settings can be introduced. In the end, we talked briefly about conflict resolution.
We taught this lesson as an integrative lesson, using our lists from each part of the book to sequence the book and discuss the parts. I felt that this lesson went okay, but could have been done better. I think that parts of the presentation were too long, and we could have combined the second and third phases together to keep the students' attention. The activities seemed to become repetitive. I also think this may have been too much information to give at once. I do think that Corduroy was a good book choice and that the charts were a good way to show the information.