Lesson Plan Preparation

To a large extent, this lesson plan preparation exercise will help me and other teachers know the strategies to be deployed and the measures to take while teaching in this particular context. It would be prudent to note that MT is in this case the hypothetical name of a 7-year-old girl in 2nd grade. MT had not been diagnosed with any learning disability before. She is in a class that had a total of 19 learners.

To ensure that I accommodate MT in my class, I have set some goals that I wish to achieve by the end of the example lesson. The first goal that I have set is: ensure that the student will be able to read fluently above her independent reading level in comprehension reading, owing to the fact that she has a difficulty in this area. In this lesson plan, I have addressed some standards with regard to reading of comprehension. The strategies I have set are inclusive of, but they are not limited to;

i) Have the students talk aloud about what they have read

ii) Supplement their class reading by getting books that are easy for them to read

iii) Encourage them to reread so as to build fluency

iv) Provide a variety of practice books for the students and also encourage them to always read aloud.

The said goals and standards cannot be achieved until certain objectives are put in place. One crucial objective that I have put in place as a teacher is to ensure that by the end of the lesson, the students are able to read the Premium Word Recognition Inventory (A) portion. They should be able to read the wordlist in the First WRI portion, WRI 2 (C) section, WRI 2 (D) section. They should be able to read orally Level 2-C, Level 2 (D) and 3 (E). The students should be able to answer comprehension questions correctly. The students should also have acquired high listening capacities.

Further, I have considered a number of factors owing to the fact that there may be cases of disabilities, interest levels, backgrounds, and ability levels. For the learning and teaching process to be successful, these factors are important. In this case, MT is from a single-mom family. She has never met her father and her mother is not actively involved in her learning process. MT has not been diagnosed with any disability. She has some difficulties reading but with regard to her age and grade, it would be prudent to note that her performance was laudable. MT also has great interest in the learning process and she is also a well-mannered learner.

MT had prior experience on some aspects of reading and comprehension. This she got from her...…place in this case whereby the 19 students in the class can be allowed to choose their groups during the learning process. Students can get support from the community by sharing memories and stories and creating conversations that include or bring on board everyone. It would also be prudent to note that acknowledging each others strengths, abilities, talents and differences helps in building good communications. In order to justify the instructions for this lesson, students must be guided towards the development of the relevant skills and capabilities, i.e. with regard to comprehension.

According to Chatel and Regina (2002), a lesson plan is a systematic design for the development, implementation, and evaluation of instruction (1). This lesson plan will help teachers evaluate the students understanding of the comprehension reading and build the students knowledge as proposed by Glass, n .d.

Technology is an important tool in education. It should be noted that as suggested by Drexel University School of Education (2000), technology creates a learning process that is meaningful to students of all ages. Ghavifekr and Rosdy (2015), also agree that technology is important in education by pointing that, it comes in handy in efforts to enable teachers formulate lesson plans in a manner that could be deemed effective and beneficial to the active learning of students. According to Johnson, et al. (2016), effective use of literacy for educational technologies…