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Sample Lesson Plan For a 3rd Grade Classroom: Reading and Reading Comprehension A Lesson Plan that focuses on the English Language Arts was created for a 3rd grade classroom using the book Why Mosquitos Buzz in People’s Ears, Verna Aardema. Modifications and or adaptations were developed to accommodate a that is the classroom who exhibits an intellectual disability. The California Content Standards fall under Reading and Reading Comprehension.

English Language Arts Lesson Plan for a Student with Intellectual Disability 3rd Grade Block Period: 45 minutes I. Learning Goals

California State Standards 1.6—Reading: Read aloud fluently and accurately and with appropriate intonation and expression. 2.5—Reading Comprehension: Restate facts and details in the text to clarify and organize ideas. 2.6—Reading Comprehension: Recognize cause-and-effect relationships in a text.

Student will be able to read out loud, learn and restate facts, and identify cause and effect connections as it pertains to the book , Why Mosquitos Buzz in People’s Ears, Verna Aardema which is an African folk tale that is a creation story.

III. Materials Needed <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">*A transparency copy of the book so it can be read out loud by the entire class using a projector <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">*1 set per pair of purple index cards with a picture of each main character from the story. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">* 1 set per pair of yellow index cards with a printed word describing an action as it pertains to the characters of the story <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">*1 set of red index cards that with a printed word describing a reaction as it pertains to the characters of the story. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">*Photocopies of the book to be handed to each student.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">IV. Instructional Procedures

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Opening: 10 minutes <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Using a projector, teacher will read out loud the book Why Mosquitos Buzz in People’s Ears, Verna Aardema as students learn the story by listening and looking at the pictures of the book.

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reco <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Main Activity: 25 minutes <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Next students break up into pairs in which they will first practice re-reading the story by taking turns reading a page per student. While re-reading the book in groups, students will record audio of the story into a recording device, and the uploaded onto this wiki:

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Then, students use the purple set of index cards in order to recall the main characters of the story. For instance, one partner has all the cards while the other partner attempts to recall the main characters. Every time a student recalls a character, his or her partner puts down a purple index card until all the character cards are recalled. Then, the students reverse roles and repeat the activity. Afterwards, all the character cards are to be placed in a row on the desk in front of both students. Next, the pair begins to work as a team to match the yellow cards that represent “cause” cards to the red cards that represent the “effect” cards as it pertains to each character of the story. For instance, the since the mosquito character whispered a lie into the iguana’s ear, the effect was that the reptile put sticks in his ears, therefore both the cause and effect cards are places under the image of the mosquito.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Closing: 10 minutes <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">As class, each pair of students will share one character and the cause and effect that occurred in the story surrounding that character. Teacher will record this activity on the whiteboard the rest of the class can read. Students will begin to write their own creation story by choosing an animal and a feature about that animal and creatively writing on how that animal got that feature.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">V. Assessment/Evaluation <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">By reading their own creation story out loud to the class, the teacher will then be able to evaluate the student’s ability to read out loud and recognize the relationship between cause and effect.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">VI. English Language Arts Areas that Require Remediation <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Standard & Remediation <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">*1.6—Reading: Read aloud fluently and accurately and with appropriate intonation and expression: * Using an AAC device, such a DynaVox, student will read out loud by activating the AAC device at the appropriate time (at the beginning of the reading session, and each time a paragraph ends) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">*2.5—Reading Comprehension: Restate facts and details in the text to clarify and organize ideas: * Using picture cards and or printed words, student will answer a question relating to the text by choosing the correct card from a field of 3. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">*2.6—Reading Comprehension: Recognize cause-and-effect relationships in a text: * Using 2 pictures, student will chose the correct effect, by considering the already established cause.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">VII. Adaptations <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A paraprofessional is needed attend to the diverse learning needs of the student with special needs that is included in the classroom. For instance, the paraprofessional will aid the student in keeping on task and assisting with any behavioral issues that may arise while the class is listening and looking at the book that is being projected and read out loud by the teacher during the first part of the activity. The instructional aid will also help make sure the student is engaged and participating during the time students are working in pairs re-reading the story to each other. The instructional aid is NOT to be the student’s partner during this activity, but rather helping to supplement to the student with special needs will contribute to the activity.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> VIII. Within-Task Direction for the Student with Special Needs <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Activity #1 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Using an AAC device, such a DynaVox, student will read out loud by activating the AAC device at the appropriate time (at the beginning of the reading session, and each time a paragraph ends). <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Activity #2 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Using picture cards and or printed words, student will answer a question relating to the text by choosing the correct card from a field of 3. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Activity #3 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Using 2 pictures, student will chose the correct effect, by considering the already established cause as it pertains to the characters in the book. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Activity # 4

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">After being pre-recorded by the instructional aide on an AAC device, the student will share with the class one character and the cause and effect that matches that character within the story. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">By reading his own creation story out loud to the class using the assistance of an AAC device and an instructional aide, the teacher will then be able to evaluate the student’s ability to read out loud and recognize the relationship between cause and effect. <span style="background-color: #fffc00; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%; vertical-align: baseline;">The creation story will be established by first picking an animal from a field of 3. Then the student will be able to choose a feature from that animal from a field of 2. Finally, the student will able to choose a reason for that particular feature from a field of 2. It is important to state that fields are comprised of photographs and or printed words.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 180%;">Example:

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