Writing Assignment Paper: Daily Lesson Plan Format

Daily Lesson Plan Format

Standard (Common Core/ Early Learning):
Comparing and contrasting

Title: Reading_______________________
Week of: __1__________________
Submitted by: ________________

Objective/Skills to be covered: By the end of the lesson the learner should be able to; a. Understand that to compare is to recognize how similar things are and to contrast is to realize how different they are.
b.make distinctions between characters in a fable from the story details.
c.Understand that keywords are sometimes used to compare and contrast by authors.

Literary Work/Story: The Donkey and The Dog. Short story
Author: (Aesop Joan). Year:(1987)
City, State: India

Warm-up (Fingerplay/Song):
Procedure (Step-by-Step): (Guided Instruction)
1)Ask a student to describe a donkey and how different it is from a dog.
2)Give the definition of the two terms,compare and contrast to the students as doing this helps the learner understand the characters of the story better.
3)Teacher distributes the fable and instructs the students to read,comparing and contrasting the donkey and the dog as they fill out the compare and contrast diagram.
4)A discussion on the important ways in which the two animals are different and alike and how comparing and contrasting enhanced the understanding of the fable.

Key Questions: (Bloom’s Taxonomy)
1)Differentiating
2)Defining
3)Reading
4)Comparing and Contrasting

Assessment Question: Teacher asks the students to list key words used for comparing and contrasting by writing them down.

Closure Statement: Learners were able to list the Key words hence the lesson objective achieved.

Accommodations made to provide: Teacher allowed a student who was feeling unwell to list her key words orally.
Additional assistance: The teacher ended with a short review of the words listed by students.
More rigorous challenge: Learners to compare and contrast the two animals.

Extension Activity: (Independent Activity) Challenge the students to compare and contrast two donkey breeds and write their findings on the compare and contrast diagram

Mentor’s Teacher’s Signature: ____________________________ Date: ___________

Materials Needed:
* A dictionary
* The donkey and the Dog fable
* Compare and contrast Diagram

Domain(s) covered:
Reading and writing

Lesson plan 2
Daily Lesson Plan Format

Standard (Common Core/ Early Learning):
Understanding Diversity

Title: __Reading_____________________
Week of: _2___________________
Submitted by: ________________

Objective/Skills to be covered: Given the reading of the story, the student should be able to: a. identify one thing that makes them different from the rest and one thing about themselves that is similar to others.

Literary Work/Story : The Money Tree
Author: Sarah Stewart,
(Year Published):1991
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 

Warm-up (Finger play/Song): Song related to the topic
Procedure (Step-by-Step): (Guided Instruction)
1)Teacher asks the learners if any of them feels special and then explains the activities of the lesson...