Pre service Teachers Name: Annaliese Collison

Mentor Teachers Name: Ryan Moseley

Primary School

School: Pearcedale

Year level: year six

Lesson Focus: Comprehension: Monitor and fix up
Lesson Time and Date: Tuesday 15th/3/2016
Duration: 60 minutes

Lesson

Learning Outcomes (What do you want the students to learn in this lesson? i.e. what new
Knowledge/understandings, Skills, Values and attitudes will they be able to demonstrate?)
Students will have a better understanding of Comprehension of the Novel Someone like me?
Students will have further developed the skills to understand how to comprehend what is
happening within text they read.
Students will be able to respond and have an understanding of the main Characters, setting of the
story, genre of the novel, and the main problems presented in the novel.

Links to curriculum (use appropriate curriculum framework e.g. AusVELS,

Victorian/Australian curriculum)

Australian Curriculum
Literacy: Interpreting and analyzing, evaluating:
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Use Comprehension strategies to interpret and analyse information and ideas,

comparing content from a variety of textual sources including media and digital
texts. (ACELY1713)

Analyse how text structures and language features work together to meet the
purpose of a text. (ACELY1711)

Students Prior Learning (What has already been taught/learned about this content/skill?)
Students will have already have learnt comprehension strategies including: what the main idea of
the book is. Students will have developed an understanding through the term of comprehension
strategies as part of the DAILY 3S.

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Teaching and Learning Preparation (What resources will you need to prepare?)
Someone like me Novel
Comprehension cube print outs

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Teaching and Learning plan

Lesson Phase
Orientation /Introduction
How will you motivate and
explain the learning intention
of this lesson?
What kinds of questions
might you ask?
This should link to prior
learning experiences.

I will motivate students by accessing students prior knowledge

before explaining the comprehension questions. This including
what the story is about.
I will ask questions such as :
- What is this chapter about?
- What type of text is the book? Fiction or Non Fiction?
- What do they predict will happen in the next chapter?

Teaching strategies/
Learning Activities
What strategies will the
students be engaged in to
achieve the learning
outcomes?
How will you cater for a
diversity of learning needs?
How will you manage
transitions between various
lesson phases/activities?
What kinds of questions might
you ask?
What formative and/or
summative assessment
strategies will be used in this
lesson?

Students will be engaged in a variety of ways this includes a class

discussion at the beginning to ask students what they know about
the chapter that has been read. Students will then be then given
the opportunity to create reading comprehension cubes and roll
them with a partner to ask questions such as what is the main
event in the chapter read. Students will also be engaged by writing
down their answer in their writing book. Therefore catering to
different student learning abilities.
I will cater for diverse learners: This is shown by catering to
different learning styles, including students who are linguistic who
can participate in the class discussion. This lesson also caters to
students who are Kinesthetic as students are able to create
comprehension cubes, this also extends to visual learners who are
able to use the cube pictures to help them understand what is
meant by each comprehension question.
Summative assessment:
During the class discussion this will guide me as a teacher to what
students are understanding about comprehension.
Formative assessment:
The formative assessment will be from the students answers they
write down after rolling the cube.

Conclusion /Closure
How will you capture the
main ideas of the lesson?

To close this lesson, we will have a class discussion, in which I will

ask students what they think of each question was from the cube.

What kinds of questions will

you ask?

Including:
Who are the main characters?
Whats the story about?

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Also consider:

I will use the answers students write down in their book to

evaluate what students have learnt.

What processes and data will

you use to see if/ what
students learned?

Students learning outcomes will be recorded from their

written answers in their writing book.

Students voices will be heard throughout the lesson,

including at the beginning where they are required to draw
on their prior knowledge of comprehension.

How you will you record

student learning outcomes?
How will you include the
student voice in assessment?

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Pre-service teacher self-assessment

Needs Improvement
Aspect of the lesson
Introduction to the lesson

Progressing
How would you assess
yourself?
Achieving well

Achieving Well
Comments
Good introduction, explained
well. Need to be clearer of
where to write their answers.

Planning & organisation of

materials, resources
Communication with students;
explanation, questioning skills
etc.

All materials well prepared.

Achieving well
Achieving well

Communication good,
questions formulated well at
the beginning. However I
must ensure I formulate
questions throughout the
whole lesson.

Selection of learning activities

Progressing
Monitoring/assessment/feedbac
k of student learning throughout
the lesson

Progressing
Further questions, and
summative assessment of
lesson is needed throughout
the lesson.
Eg) ask questions, as
students progress through
the activity.

Conclusion of lesson; transition

to next lesson/session

progressing

Needed more of a closure to

help students formulate what
they have understood.
Eg) Asking students what
they have written about the
genre of the novel, the
characters.

Overall quality of the lesson

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I was overall pleased that

students understood what
was required of them to do
within the task. I was also
pleased with the level

engagement. However in the

future I should ensure the
lesson stays within the
DAILY 3 time frame of 15
20 minutes.

Reflection
What do you think was successful about this lesson? Why?
Students engagement with the predictions and questions about what they understood about the
novel.
Students engagement and motivation to complete the task.
My explanation of the task.

What could have been improved? What strategies might you use in the future based on
your learning from this lesson?
I need to improve on ensuring I close the lesson by formulating questions to students about what
they have learnt during the lesson. Therefore in the future I will ensure I leave 5- 10 minutes at the
end of the lesson to have a class discussion on their understandings and to clarify any confusion.

Mentor Teachers Feedback

Aspect of the lesson
Introduction to the lesson

Planning & organisation of

materials, resources

Communication with

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Your assessment

Comments

students; explanation,
questioning skills etc.
Selection of learning
activities

Monitoring/assessment &
feedback of student
learning throughout the
lesson
Conclusion of lesson;
transition to next
lesson/session
Overall management of
the lesson

Any other comments: (including learning goals for next teaching activity)

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