SJC LESSON PLAN FORMAT

Name: Erin Gorey

School: Bosti Elementary

Course: C.S 414

Date of Lesson: 12/1/15

Cooperating Teacher: Mrs. Dana Keyes

Grade: 2

Specific Lesson: Rural Communities

Group Size: 16

Curriculum Area: Social Studies/ELA

Central Focus:
The students will determine characteristics of a rural community.

Learning Objectives:
a.) The students will be able to listen to a read-aloud about a rural community.
b.) The students will be able to write descriptively about a rural community using a thinking
map.
c.) The students will be able to write a paragraph about a rural community.

NYS Common Core Learning Standards:

Standard 3: Geography
Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of the
geography of the interdependent world in which we live- local, national, and global- including
the distribution of people, places, and environments over the Earths surface.
*Standard 3 will be accomplished when the students listen to a read-aloud about rural
communities and develop a paragraph.
W 2.2- Write informative/explanatory texts in which they introduce a topic, use facts and
definitions to develop points, and provide a concluding statement or section.
*W 2.2 will be accomplished when the students use descriptive language to write an
interesting paragraph about rural communities.
W 2.5- With guidance and support from adults and peers, focus on a topic and strengthen writing
as needed by revising and editing.
*W 2.5 will be accomplished when the students conference with the teacher and edit their
paragraph later in the day.

SL 2.1- Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about grade 2 topics and
texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups. a.) Follow agreed-upon rules for
discussions (e.g., gaining the floor in respectful ways, listening to others with care, speaking one
at a time about the topics and texts under discussion).
*SL 2.1 will be accomplished when the students participate in a Turn and Talk activity
about what one might see, hear, smell, taste and touch in the country.

Rationale:
Yesterday the students learned about what makes a community. Today they will be
learning about rural communities. This week they will be learning about urban and suburban
communities. Since September the students have been organizing their thoughts using graphic
organizers. Over the course of the next few months they will practice writing paragraphs with an
interesting topic sentence.

Materials:
SMART Board
Elmo projector
Computer with internet access (YouTube video called Farm Sound by Relaxing Soundzzz)
Pictures of rural communities/Collage of Ireland
Cynthia Rylants, Night in the Country
20 Bubble Map graphic organizers
Students Writers Notebook

Development/Procedures
Introduction/Motivation:
a.) The teacher will ask the students if they remember what makes a community.
b.) The teacher will show the students pictures of the country and ask what they see.
Instructional Strategies:
1.) The teacher will read the picture book, Night in the Country by Cynthia Rylant
(author) and Mary Szilagyi (illustrator.)
2.) The students will Turn and Talk with a partner about what one might see, hear, smell,
touch or taste in the country. A few students will share.

3.) The students will quietly walk back to their seats and the teacher will play a video of
sounds on a farm. The students will share what they heard.
4.) The teacher will read a paragraph aloud about what one might see, hear, taste, touch
and smell in a rural community showing the students what they will be accomplishing
by the end of the lesson.
5.) The students will organize their thoughts by completing a bubble map about life in a
rural community. The teacher will model the first few bubbles with the class.
6.) The students will write a paragraph about a rural community using the information
from their own bubble map including an interesting topic and closing sentence.
7.) The students will draw and color their own picture of a rural community.
8.) If a student finishes early, he/she may watch a Brain Pop video about rural, urban, and
suburban communities or add a community poem into their poetry journal.

Academic Language:
Rural, communities, country, farm, bubble map, five senses, descriptive words, paragraph

Differentiation:
Joseph has difficulty seeing the board. I will be sure to write largely and legibly so that he
can see easily. Declan and Jaclyn often chat during lessons, so I will keep a close eye on them to
be sure they remain on task and add use of visual cues if necessary. Tayba is a selective mute. I
will give her opportunities to volunteer in class discussion.

Technology Component:
The teacher will use the SMART Board and the Elmo projector to display pictures of a
rural community, the model paragraph, and the bubble map. The teacher will use the computer
to play a YouTube video of farm sounds.

Closure:
a.) The students can share their paragraph by reading it aloud to the class.
b.) The teacher will ask the students, What have you learned today? If we were in a
rural community right now, what would we see, touch, hear, smell and taste? How
did we make our writing more interesting?

Assessment:

The teacher will informally observe how the students are understanding a rural
community when the class responds after the Turn and Talk and during completion of the bubble
map. As a formal assessment, the teacher will evaluate each students paragraph.

Re-engagement:
If a student is struggling with completing the bubble map, the teacher will show them
more pictures of the country and farms, and let them flip through Night in the Country at their
desk. If a student has trouble writing his/her paragraph, the teacher will give them an opening
sentence and guide them sentence by sentence as they write information from each bubble (ex:
I see I hear etc.)

A rural community means

country. I see a bright, red barn. I
hear loud cows mooing outside.
Do you smell those stinky, dirty
pigs rolling in the cool mud? I can
touch soft, green grass. I taste
yummy, warm apple pie. I would
love to live on a farm!