Lesson Plans

Yesterday I was given the opportunity to teach both my word lesson and my guided reading. They both went extremely well!!! The kids really enjoyed them and the teacher said I did a great job.
My word lesson used one of their spelling words for a making words lesson. I made letters to hand out to the class and had them raise their hands and tell me all the two letter words, three letter words and so on until they had to use all their letters. Some children had trouble finding the special word but I gave them the clue that it was on their weekly spelling list. They then all rushed to get out their spelling lists and tried to use their letters to spell their spelling words. I feel that this forced them to look at their spelling words and how they were spelled without making them think about doing spelling work. I heard one little boy say to his friend" that was so much fun I wish we could do it again" which made me feel really good because I feel like they really learned something.
My guided reading used a KWL chart with the chapter book that they are reading right now. I had questions already written down on my copy of the chart so that if I couldn't get response about the things they had learned or wanted to learn I could ask them direct questions that would lead them to the answer I had in mind. This lesson went very smoothly. The teacher commented on how well I manged the class time and how well I was prepared which made me feel like I did a good job and the kids all had really good KWL charts. In fact while I graded them I could only take one point off of three students. I told them they had to have 5 things in each section and two children had wrong facts written down and the other wrote the same learned thing down twice. I think this shows that the students comprehended the text really well.
Overall I feel like my lessons went really well and I am looking forward to teaching more lessons to this group of children!