Siop Lesson Plan Visiting Farm

Siop Lesson Plan

Visiting Farm Animals

SIOP Lesson Plan: Visiting Farm Animals

Reflection on Lesson Plan: Visiting Farm Animals

This lesson is designed to teach 1st grade ESL immersion students to identify types of farm animals and to begin to have an understanding of what occurs on a farm. This lesson plan will allow students time to meaningfully interact with both the teacher and one another while utilizing the information that is presented in the lesson. While the teacher will lead the discussion it will be a fully interactive program that encourages student participation and peer interaction. Pacing will be particularly important for this assignment allowing the students to fully grasp the concepts and apply the strategies to new tasks.

There are three different steps involved in building background in the sheltered instruction including linking concepts to students' background and experiences, linking past learning to new concepts, and emphasizing key vocabulary (Pray & Mondhart, 2009). This lesson plan addresses all of these concepts through the evaluation of their previous exposure to farm animals, the establishment of background through the use of the story and the emphasis on key vocabulary.

The pictures utilized on the flashcards are real life pictures of animals allowing the students to be able to incorporate newly learned skills into future encounters with farm animals or to draw inferences between the written word and the pictures that they are being exposed to. Students are given an opportunity to identify preferences of animals and discuss this with their peers,