Step One: Pick your crowd (Lesson Plan Step 1, Knowing your students)

With the help of my mentor teacher I have selected three students to teach my mini literacy lesson to. The three students are Billy, Bobby, and Brenda. They will be taking place in a fluency building lesson, and a pre-writing lesson that I am continuing to plan, to ensure it meets their needs.

I have selected these three students, because of their struggle with fluency and the importance of building pre-writing strategies like creating an outline. Each student seems to struggle when it comes to reading fluently. All three are good students, I have corrected their work before and have no worries that they will be able to gain a lot of information from these two lessons.  I have noticed that when these three students read aloud, they seem to read quite a bit slower than the rest of class, and seem to struggle with some site words. I will be conducting a fluency assessment to find each one's instructional level, and from this will design a lesson to fit their needs.

Each student is a strong writer. However, I have noticed that these students seem to struggle with organization in their writing. Their writing seems to lack coherency and I feel that if they are taught how to outline their writing, their skills as young writers will greatly improve. 

I look forward to working with these three students. I think that these lessons will benefit them, and hopefully help them grow in their literacy development. Also, I know my MT will be pleased with the progress they make. She has mentioned a few times that she wants to focus and work with these three individuals, but doesn't have enough time to do so. She is excited that they will be receiving some individual instruction time, and as a result, I will make sure that they benefit from the lessons.

I look forward to taking the next step of assessing and finding their instructional level. Once I do this, a fluency lesson will be no problem to plan. I hope to make it engaging and educational, and the same thing with my writing lesson. I will keep you posted, not only because it is part of the assignment, but because I know you truly care about the growth of these students. Until then, "Keep calm, and carry on."