Reading Lesson Plan Format

JMU Student Name: Kelsie Glass Grade Level: PreK Date/Time you plan to
teach the lesson: 11/7 at 11 AM

Lesson Type: READ ALOUD

Title, Author & Summary of the Text Used in this Lesson:

Roberto: The Insect Architect by Nina Laden
Roberto, a termite, pursues his dream of becoming an architect while all of his friends
and family laugh and tell him not to.

Describe how and provide a rationale for the way you have grouped
students for this lesson:
I will read this book to the entire class because I think that every child will enjoy it and
can benefit from it.

Standard(s) Addressed:
Oral Language:
a) Listen with increasing attention to spoken language, conversations, and texts read aloud.
b) Make predictions about what might happen in a story.
c) Use complete sentences to ask and answer questions about experiences or about what has been
read.
d) Listen attentively to stories in a whole class setting.
e) Use appropriate and expanding language for a variety of purposes, e.g., ask questions, express
needs, get information.

Objectives:
The students will… be able to ask and respond to questions about the story’s plot,
characters, and word choice.

Tier Two Vocabulary Words and Student Friendly Definitions:

Architect: a person who designs buildings
Blueprints: a picture that shows the plan for a building

Materials needed/preparation of the learning environment:

“Roberto: The Insect Architect”

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 Reading Lesson Plan Format

JMU Student Name: Kelsie Glass Grade Level: PreK Date/Time you plan to
teach the lesson: 11/7 at 11 AM

Plans for differentiation:

I will ask many different types of questions. Some one word answers and some that are
more complex to account for differences in student comprehension. I will also ask
questions that can be answered nonverbally (thumbs up), to help students that do not
have the verbal skills to answer other questions.

Before Reading
Engage: Before showing the book: Time
Describe how - Raise your hands and tell me, what is one of your 3 min
favorite things to play with in the classroom?
you will: - What do you like to build with the blocks?
● capture - Raise your hands and tell me, do you know what a
students’ person is called whose job is to design buildings?
interest and Show cover, introduce title, author.
introduce the
text;
● activate
students’
background
knowledge;
and
● set the
purpose for
listening

Explore: - Can someone give me a thumbs up if you know Time

Describe how what an architect is? 2 min
- Roberto is an architect, so we know that his job is
you will: to design buildings.
● preview the - Can someone raise their hand and share, what
text kind of buildings do you think Roberto will design?
- Do you think it’s an easy job?
- Roberto is a termite, and termites eat wood.

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 Reading Lesson Plan Format

JMU Student Name: Kelsie Glass Grade Level: PreK Date/Time you plan to
teach the lesson: 11/7 at 11 AM

During Reading
Explain: - Page 1: Can someone raise their hand and remind Time
Describe how you me what an architect is? 6 min
will: - Page 2: It sounds like the other termites are being
● model/explain kind of mean to Roberto, how do you think that
your thinking makes him feel?
- Page 6: They don’t have any place to go, what do
(list page
you think Roberto is going to do? How can he help
numbers and
them? Share with your partner your ideas.
what you will - Page 8: Give me a thumbs up if you know what a
say/do) blueprint is.
● invite - Page 10: Does anyone know what anonymously
students to means?
model/explain - Page 15: What kind of museums have you all been
their thinking to? Raise your hands and tell me.
about the
words? (list
page numbers
and what you
will say/do)
After Reading
Elaborate: - How did Roberto feel in the beginning of the story? Time
Describe how - How did he feel at the end? Give a thumbs up if you 1 min
you will: think he was happy at the end.
● engage
students in
developing a
more
sophisticated
understandin
g of the
purpose for
listening

Evaluate: - Can someone raise their hand and tell me, what did Time
Describe how Roberto do to make himself happy? 1 min
- How did Roberto make the other bugs feel?
you will: - Raise your hand and tell me, what is something you do
● encourage that makes you happy?
students to

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 Reading Lesson Plan Format

JMU Student Name: Kelsie Glass Grade Level: PreK Date/Time you plan to
teach the lesson: 11/7 at 11 AM

assess their
understandin
g and
abilities
● evaluate
(formally)
student
progress
toward
achieving the
educational
objectives

Closure: - ___, you said Roberto was going to ____. Were you Time
Describe how right? 2 min
you will: - Can someone remind me what an architect is? And a
● remind blueprint?
students of
the lesson
objective
● link the new
learning to
future
learning

What could go wrong with this lesson and what will you do about it?
Children may not be engaged in the story, and if this happens I will ask them questions
to get them engaged. They may have trouble getting back to the story after a question,
and if this happens I will put the book down and use the clapping song my CT uses to get
their attention. The students may not understand the story. If this happens I will discuss
the book and make it more clear what happened.