The two lessons that I put together were whole class lessons. I tried to use the …show more content…
When the required twenty minutes was up we moved into our writing lesson. The idea was to stick with the non-fiction theme and teach them how to write an information text. I chose to do a lesson about “What am I good at.” I felt that the time that I had to complete this lesson, twenty minutes, I didn’t have time to require them to write about something that they would have to research. From earlier classes that I have taken at USC, I knew that using the knowledge that the students’ already possessed was the best place to begin. Just like the reading lesson I opened with a class discussion on what information text was and how it was different from fictional writing. I also used this time to demonstrate what I would do if I were given the task to write something about what I was good at. I tried to demonstrate what my thinking would be and show the students what I would do if I were in their place. I used the SMART board to create a graphic organizer and did all my thinking out