How To Read Aloud Reflection

I believe the strengths of my lesson were keeping the students on task and including all students in the lesson. I kept students on task by explaining my expectations and showing enthusiasm before the lesson. This made the students aware of their behaviors and became engaged because they sensed my enthusiasm. I grabbed their attention by doing a small version of Simon Says. For example, I said, “If you are ready to learn, touch the sky.” I did 3 of these at a time and reminded the students to sit crisscross applesauce. This grabbed their attention by stretching their bodies when they, “touched the sky,” and prepared them to learn. Throughout the lesson, if students were talking, when they were not supposed to, I gave a reminder. If the talking continued, I regrouped the students and gained their attention through another version of Simon Says, but with new actions. I also included all students by waiting 7 seconds before I called on a student. This is because there were several students who raised their hand for every questions, and I did give them their turn to share, but I also made sure those students who take a little more time to raise their hand, also had a turn to participate. Lastly, I used vocabulary cards in …show more content…
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The challenges I faced in my read aloud lesson were students talking during the extension activity. I did not have anything else for the students who finished very quickly, so I allowed them to talk to their neighbor if their neighbor was also finished. This distracted students who were still working; therefore, not all students completed the extension activity to the best of their ability. Another challenge I faced was keeping the lesson 20 minutes long. My lesson was about 25 minutes when cleanup was finished because students did take more time to complete the extension activity than I anticipated.

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