My last literacy lesson was a continuation of narrative nonfiction. The lesson started out with a mini-lesson on the narrative nonfiction trait of using voice. I started by recapping yesterdays lesson by asking “What did we learn yesterday?” Based on my responses I knew that I had to reteach some of the lesson on sequence. The students seemed to still be confused about how the sequence goes and why you have to have a beginning, middle, and then end. I think some of the students were still confused because they did not all completely finish their worksheet on sequence. One thing that I would change if I re-taught this lesson would be I would collect their worksheets and check for completion. If students had not finished the worksheet I would have them work on it before the next lesson. (Either at snack time or at recess. Because I did give them enough time and the reason that they did not finish was because they were talking or not focused.) So students that were struggling were the students who were off task for the day before lesson.
To introduce voice we used the last two sentences of the story about Sam the dog. (This is the story we used about sequence.) The two sentences were “The rescue workers saved him. They are wonderful!” Then I asked the students if they understood how these sentences were examples of voice. They looked completely confused. I decided to think on the spot and have to come up with some different examples. I brought in our theme of rescue workers to think of examples. I asked them to remind me of different rescue workers that we came up with brainstorming. We started with firefighters. I said “If a firefighter saved a kitten in a tree. How would that make you feel?” I drew some popsicle sticks and asked for ideas of how you’d feel. We did this a couple of more times with the theme of rescue workers.
Before passing out the paragraphs that they had been working on we quickly recapped nouns. The kids are really good with proper nouns and nouns. It is something that just has came easy to them. They all can raise their hand and answer “What is a noun?” And answer correctly with person, place, animal, or thing. The students job was when they received their paragraphs was that they had to add at least one sentence of voice. Most of the students really did not struggle with voice it was just the depth or quality of their voice sentence. Some of the lower students just jammed in a sentence of “I felt good.” More advanced students put more than one sentence of voice and did not just add it to the end of the paragraph but though out their paragraph.
Something that I learned about my students literacy practices is that they learn a lot through visuals and personal examples and models. If I were to give an example sentence of voice on the board this might help them. But, if I were to add an example sentence that had someones name in it or something they enjoyed the kids would remember voice for life. Something I would do if I re-taught this lesson would be that I would have picked a book to read to them (which I already do in the morning) and have it be a model for voice and one for sequence. This would have been really beneficial to them.
Material that needs to be retaught I will do the following day. If it something little I will just talk to them during snack time. If it is something big (barely any work on paragraph) they will have to be retaught during recess. I will also quickly recap the main points of todays lesson during the next lesson.
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