Lesson 3

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

• Students learned about authors purpose and discussed ideas on why the big book “Jungle Drum” could have been written and also why the author did certain things with the text. For example the book had a lot of sounds the animals made written out. The student then chose an animal that lives in the jungle and they illustrated their own page and wrote a sentence about what “they heard” in the jungle and then they had to write the sounds the animal makes on their page to make a class book. I had to do more prompting when it cam to talking about the text in the book but the students thought of good ideas as to why the author may have written the book.

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

• From their responses about why the author wrote the book such as “so we can help animals”, and from their own illustrations of animals I can tell it is something that interests a lot of the students and it great to see them put time into the little project.

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

• They need more prompting when it comes to a more in depth discussion topic and it is not a topic I would have them discuss in partners or small groups yet. They do have ideas about word choice and my CT and I related it to their writing time.

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

• During the work time on their illustrations if a student needed help with words and how to write sounds I helped them with sounding it out. This topic of word choice and looking at why the author may have used certain words or fonts or placement of words is something that will come up in later lessons as well, but for additional support I could just refer to the examples from the book and find other examples I could read during read aloud time in the future to have an additional discussion about the topic.

· 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 did have another book I read aloud to the students where the author used similar techniques when it came to writing sounds the animals were making but I would have more prompts prepared ahead of time for this specific part of the discussion to really get them to think about the text.