Lesson plan literacy: instructional design and implementation

Lesson Plan Literacy

Grade Level:

Literacy Need: Community and Family Involvement

Lesson Title: Sharing the Responsibility

This lesson will be a lecture followed by an assignment. The lecture will be designed to promote ways of thinking that promote community involvement in literacy. The lesson will demonstrates the benefits of a literate community and where the student resides in this system. The students will be then asked to reflect on the lecture and provide a written essay that demonstrates their understanding.

Standards: The lecture will be 45 minutes. The written essay will be 3-4 pages.

Objectives/Learning Outcomes: The objectives of the lesson is that students gain an appreciation and awareness of the many resources that can support their literacy skills.

Materials, Resources and Technology: The necessary components of this lesson include a classroom, chalkboard, pen, pencil paper.

Instructional Procedures: Three strategies will be used to help promote the objective of this lesson. Since the essence of this lesson is not to directly influence literacy rates, rather it is to simply raise awareness of the many influences that affect the students' literacy skills. The strategies behind this lesson are based on fundamental leaning principles that are tried and true.

By applying behaviorism, this lecture is intended to significantly alter the student's behavior by inducing thoughts that may motivate them to question their environment and surroundings. Garland (2002) suggested "Positive reinforcement uses extrinsic motivation to engage a person in a particular behavior or task. It has a direct cause-effect relationship; desired behavior leads to reward."

By using the lecture format, Observational Learning is also being applied. Lipoff (2011) wrote "When a child is in a situation where a peer or an adult exposes her to a new behavior, she is attentive to what is new and often tries the behavior for herself -- sometimes with not such positive results. As adults, it is our role to jump in and model the behavior desired to assist with promoting appropriate outcomes."

The final theory applied is the Social Cognition Model which asserts that culture is the prime motivation in human motivation. The theme of the lecture itself is largely based on this idea and is using the students to affect the society instead of the other way around.

Student Groupings: The students will hear the lecture as a group and will do their essays individually.