Lesson 2

· What did students learn and which students struggled with the lesson?

• The students love when we get to read a new big book and the illustrations in this weeks big book were cut paper illustrations which was a focus for the discussion. The students discussed different types of illustrations they have seen in books such as pencil sketches, pictures, cartoons and watercolors. The students learned from each other about other books classmates have read or that we have in our classroom library with unique illustrations such as some students like really liked Eric Carle books, and many students agreed with a classmate who mentioned Particia Palacco since the student saw her last year as a visitor/speaker to their school. The one student who struggled is the student that usually has trouble focusing on a task, he was distracting to other students. (he has just been out on a behavior plan so hopefully that will help)

· What are alternate reads (interpretations) of your students' performance or products?

· There really are no other products besides the notes I jotted down during the discussion and the checklist of if students made some type of text to text connection or text to self connection. It could appear that if a student did not get a check mark on the class list that they did not participate at all which most likely is not the case especially since there was a think, pair, share time.

· What did you learn about your students' literacy practices that extend beyond your objectives?

· They were very observant of illustrations and knew a lot about illustrations and knew styles they liked as well as a few of the students knowing specific authors and illustrations and then other classmates agreeing with them or making a connection to a book as well.

· When and how will you re-teach the material to students who need additional support?

· The next day we will be talking about text in books and techniques authors use and that will be a good time to review what we discussed relating to illustrators before we move on to talking about authors. I can also leave the books out that students mentioned when we were talking about different types of illustrations so they can look through them again during independent reading time.

· If you were to teach this same lesson again, what would you do differently and how do you think the changes would improve students' learning?

· I could have had books ahead of time showing different kinds of illustrations instead of looking in the class library for some of the books as the kids mentioned them. I think it would have been fun to have them experiment with the different types of illustrations, maybe we all make some type of cut paper illustration like in the big book.