Running Record Mini Lesson

Candidate’s Name: Kylie Hubbard

Grade Level: 5rd Grade

Title of the lesson: Verb Tenses

Length of the lesson: 20 Minutes

Central focus: Students will practice identifying words or phrases they are struggling with while reading short stories. Students will create their own sentences with the lessons featured words. Knowledge of students: Students will draw on their prior experience of reading the short story Mystery at the Beach to help understand when and how to use verb tenses. Students will then write their own sentences using the featured words in various tenses.

Key questions: What words do you find your struggle with? Or find hard to remember? What words do you find hard to identify their meanings? What is a verb tense? When do we use them? Many students have experiences reading stories in and out of school. They should be familiar with the layout of reading a story, as well as producing their own story in words and illustrations.

Common Core State Standards Phonics and Word Recognition: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.5.3 Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.5.3.A Use combined knowledge of all letter-sound correspondences, syllabication patterns, and morphology (e.g., roots and affixes) to read accurately unfamiliar multisyllabic words in context and out of context. Fluency: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.5.4 Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.5.4.A Read grade-level text with purpose and understanding. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.5.4.B Read grade-level prose and poetry orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.5.4.C Use context to confirm or self-correct word recognition and understanding, rereading as necessary.

Support literacy development through language This lesson will help to clarify when and how to verb tenses. Vocabulary ●     Words students were struggling with: volunteer, volume, sense, smell, mystery, mysterious, resembled, repeated, dragged, bring, though, thought, think, look, fall-off, fall over, surmised, surprised, joined, gone. Sentence Level ●       Sentence structure will include: a subject, verb, and object. Discourse ●     Students will work to identify plurals and similar looking words.

Learning objectives Students will be able to identify when to use verb tenses. Students will be able to use the vocabulary words in complete sentences. Students will be able to understand what they are reading in provided text.

Formal and Informal assessment Were students able to identify words they struggled with? Were students able to make an appropriate word selection? Did students need to make any corrections?

Instructional procedure: Review the meaning of a verb tense. Explain to students the difference in the following words: volunteer, volume, sense, smell, mystery, mysterious, resembled, repeated, dragged, bring, though, thought, think, look, fall-off, fall over, surmised, surprised, joined, gone. Instruct students to create a sentence for each word using the proper verb tense, which is to be recorded in their notebook.

Reflection Were students able to create complete sentences using the appropriate verb tense? Were students able to complete the task on time? Are students more comfortable with verb tenses?