Teacher Education Lesson Plan Template

Teacher: Jasmine Erickson Date: February 15, 2018

Title of Lesson: The Very Hungry Caterpillar Cooperating Teacher: Victoria Zano

Core Components
Subject, Content Area, or Topic
Language Arts: Reading
Student Population
42 students
• 23 Girls
• 19 Boys
Learning Objectives
TSW retell a story
TSW recognize the beginning, middle, and end of a story
Virginia Essential Knowledge and Skills (SOL)
K.1 The student will demonstrate growth in the use of oral language.
a) Listen to a variety of literary forms, including stories and poems
K.9 The student will demonstrate comprehension of fictional texts.
f) Retell familiar stories, using beginning, middle, and end
C/T K-2.1 Demonstrate an operational knowledge of various technologies.
a) Use various types of technology devices to perform learning tasks.
* Use appropriate buttons, gestures, menu choices, and commands to manipulate the
computer when completing learning tasks.

Materials/Resources
Promethean board and pen
The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle flip chart
At Work With Eric Carle core click - http://www.scholastic.com/coreclicks/
High Yield Instructional Strategies Used (Marzano, 2001)

Check if Used
Strategy Return
Identifying Similarities & Differences 45%
Summarizing & Note Taking 34%
Reinforcing Efforts & Providing Recognition 29%
Homework & Practice 28%
Nonlinguistic Representations 27%
Cooperative Learning 23%
Setting Goals & Providing Feedback 23%
Generating & Testing Hypothesis 23%
Questions, Cues, & Advanced Organizers 22%
DOES YOUR INSTRUCTIONAL INPUT & MODELING YIELD THE POSITIVE
RETURNS YOU WANT FOR YOUR STUDENTS?
Check if Used Strategy Return
Teach Others/Immediate Use of Learning 95%
Practice by Doing 75%
McDonald’s Draft (2010). Modified by Kreassig and Gould (2014) for use with student teachers.
Revised August 2015
 Discussion 50%
Demonstration 30%
Audio Visual 20%
Reading 10%
Lecture 05%

Time
(min.) Process Components
*Anticipatory Set
• TTW ask students what they like to eat when they are really hungry
• TTW call on several students to share their answers
*State the Objectives (grade-level terms)
• I can retell a story.
*Instructional Input or Procedure
• TTW tell students The Very Hungry Caterpillar is a book about a caterpillar that loves to
eat
*Modeling
• TTW use an electronic flip chart of The Very Hungry Caterpillar to read the story

*Check for Understanding

• TTW ask if they found a pattern in the foods the caterpillar was eating
• TTW ask why some of the foods gave the caterpillar a tummy ache while others didn’t
• TTW ask the students what happened at the beginning, middle, and ending of the story
*Guided Practice
• TTW guide the students through the At Work With Eric Carle core click by using
the read and analyze tools
*Independent Practice
• TSW come to a consensus about the appropriate answers to the Analyze It
questions on core clicks
• TSW use the promethean board to complete the Analyze It quiz
Assessment
• Teacher observation

*Closure
• TTW go over the analyze it answers
• TTW transition the students into a writing lesson based on the story read

Differentiation Strategies (enrichment, accommodations, remediation, or by learning style).

• This lesson plan has audio, visual, and kinesthetic portions to accommodate multiple learning styles
Classroom Management Issues (optional)
• TTW use “hey, class!” with their response of “oh, yes!” to draw students back from discussion
• TTW have students raise their hands when they want to contribute
Lesson Critique. To be completed following the lesson. Did your students meet the objective(s)? What part of the lesson
would you change? Why?
The students met their objectives. Only one of the questions was answered wrong in the Analyze It
section and I took steps to make sure students understood what the correct answer should have been.
McDonald’s Draft (2010). Modified by Kreassig and Gould (2014) for use with student teachers.
Revised August 2015
I wouldn’t change anything if I were to reteach this lesson.
*Denotes Madeline Hunter lesson plan elements.

Intern Signature Cooperating Teacher Signature Date

McDonald’s Draft (2010). Modified by Kreassig and Gould (2014) for use with student teachers.
Revised August 2015