Then Diana Noonan was visiting one day and I asked her what a lesson plan for a reading class based on comprehension methods would look like. Like Paul, she tossed what is below off the top of her head for another formal observation I had scheduled for that week. I am very grateful to Paul and Diana for these really fine lesson plan designs, Paul’s for a story class and Diana’s (below) for a reading class:
Slavic Lesson Plan – January 27, 2011
French 2, 4th period
Learning Objective: Students will comprehend what they read in French, aligning with Colorado Model Content Standard for Foreign Language:
Standard 1: Communication in Languages Other Than English for Novice-Mid or Novice-High –
2. Comprehend short learned exchanges (written or oral) on learned topics that use learned vocabulary and grammatical structures (interpretive mode) (page 34) Novice-Mid or
2. Comprehend exchanges (written or oral) on a variety of familiar topics using both high-frequency vocabulary, new vocabulary, and learned grammatical structures (interpretive mode). Novice-High (page 31)
Evidence Outcomes:
a. Identify main ideas from oral, visual, or written sources
b. Identify the meaning of unfamiliar words using decoding skills…. (as per chart in classroom)
c. Interpret meaning using oral, visual, and contextual clues
Assessment: Students demonstrate understanding of the vocabulary via:
1. hand comprehension checks – scale of 1-10, 10 is understood at 100%
2. an aural quiz given at the end of the class period.
3. a major grade translation test on 25% of the text, given in the following class period. (So that students can study the text at home before the test, the entire reading text is posted at our class website – www.classjump.com.)
[Note: besides the exit quiz and the hand comprehension checks, the evidence that students understand will be a combination of choral and individual response. I want to encourage responses from all students with leveled questions relative to their own degree of mastery. Pls. refer to seating chart notes re: which students are fast and slow processors – this will help me see to what degree I am reaching all the students in the room and will help in your observation of these students as the class rolls along.]
Method of Instruction: Comprehensible Input methods