Target Area

Emilee Patzker TE 802 Inquiry II, Part A 1.My target area for guided lead teaching will be vocabulary. The students will develop vocabulary skills through reading and learning about the fun in working together to grow, prepare, and share food for themselves and others. 2.Approximately 35 minutes per day is allotted for my instruction in this area. 3.The common core standards that I will work toward during this unit are: •RL.K.4 Ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text •RI.K.4 With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text •L.K.4 Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple meaning words and phrases based on kindergarten reading and content •L.K.5c Identify real-life connections between words and their use 4.Teaching this target area is very important and will provide my students with a variety of skills. Vocabulary is a building block for my students and will enhance their abilities to begin reading and make deeper connections while reading. My students need to learn vocabulary in order to begin and also further their skills in literacy. 5. A lot of the classroom talk will be whole group and most likely teacher-led. The norms for interaction I would like to build would be that everyone is actively participating in the discussions during the lessons. 6.The core practices that I want to work on developing and improving on as I teach this target area are explicit instruction and authentic application activities. I also want to focus on how to assess my students’ knowledge of vocabulary. I think that conducting meaningful activities can be challenging but are effective so having this be my core practice will help build my skills and benefit my own professional learning. 7.The resources I have in the classroom are, a promethean board, which I will use in order to incorporate technology into my lessons. Crayons, pencils, books and paper, Harcourt Trophies teacher’s edition book. 8.I do not think I need to obtain any other materials at this time. Besides worksheets and activity materials that I will be using during my lessons, but I’m not sure exactly what those will be yet. 9.In order to pre-assess my students in their knowledge of vocabulary I would have the students do a sorting activity, which causes my students to have to categorize and sort (food) items based on their knowledge of those certain vocabulary words. Since my unit will be dealing with food, I might have my students cut and paste different pictures of food into a food group chart based on the food group they belong to. Depending on how my students group the pictures of food will let me know if they understand the meaning of the words dairy, fruits, vegetables, grains and meats. 10.Besides pre-assessing my students to see what their vocabulary skills are like, another thing I would need to find out about my students are their general interests so I could plan and implement a vocabulary lesson that will interest my students and keep them engaged. This will also create an authentic experience for them and as a result my students will get more out of the lesson. 11.I want to learn how to best assess kindergarteners on their knowledge and progress of learning vocabulary? Also, how do I get students to participate in a way that is enhancing their learning of vocabulary? 12.One of my concerns for teaching this unit is how to properly adapt each lesson plan to accommodate the English language learners in my class and also the students who are considered intensive.