Assignment 5&6 - Lesson Plan Implementation and Reflection

Reflection – Dialogue between two animals lesson plan.

Since I am a pre-service teacher, I used my own children for this lesson.  It gave me a good opportunity to differentiate (I have a kindergartener and 2^nd grader).  We discussed and brainstormed what the animals might be thinking and then went to work on our writing.  My 2^nd grader independently wrote dialogue between the eagle and fish.  It was more of a script than a formal dialogue with quotation marks but I hadn’t reviewed any dialogue requirements prior.  I worked individually with my kindergartener transcribing her thoughts on what the eagle and fish would be thinking.  We shared our work orally and then both children voluntarily drew illustrations.  My 2^nd grader proceeded to make puppets and acted out her dialogue in a puppet show. This lesson went well. I thought about more adaptations for the younger grades (reader’s theatre with puppets, comic strip sheets, illustrations).  There a lot of possibilities with this lesson.