Ashley Klopper

EDRE-444
Dr. Yearta
February 21, 2015
Guided Reading Lesson Plan Reflection
I was able to teach my guided reading lesson plan to a group of fifth graders on February
11, 2015. I decided to teach my reading lesson to four students, each on a different reading level.
The students were in the process of reading Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis so I
created my lesson around an upcoming chapter of the book.
I structured my teaching plan around annotating and questioning. The students were
already familiar with annotating as they had been introduced to it in ELA, and as I later found
out they had been introduced to the QAR method for questioning as well, but they could not
remember the details of it. I started my lesson by asking the students what they thought about the
book thus far. We discussed what all Bud has went through and what we thought was going to
happen next. I reintroduced them to the author and me questions from the QAR method. I then
handed each of the students stickies for them to annotate the text while I read to them. I
proceeded to read chapter 7 out loud and I was surprised to see them annotate so much. After I
finished reading, we discussed our annotations and talked about what happened in the chapter. I
also had the students create two QAR questions each.
I was very pleased at the student interaction throughout the whole lesson. They were
engaged and involved throughout and they responded when prompted. They were enthusiastic

and really seemed to enjoy the lesson. When it comes to future instructional goals, I would like
for the students to learn the other three types of QAR questions. I want to teach them different
ways to ask questions and I want them to feel confident when they do ask questions.
Overall, the lesson went really well. The students came up with great questions and they
were involved in answering each others questions. They were excited about the book and they
felt accomplished when they were able to create questions and annotations. If I could change
anything, I would have given them further background knowledge on QAR questioning so that
they could better understand why I was having them learn it. I hope to be able to work with these
students again in the future and introduce them to techniques.