Reading Lesson Overview

The two kindergarten students that I want to work with from my field placement class are the two students that I have worked most with through out my field placement. The boy is the youngest in the class; the girl is very demanding and a little more advanced in the class. I have worked with both of them at their center, in my lessons, in my interviews before, and I want to work with them on their phonemic awareness and connecting. The reason why I want to work with them on these two areas is because that they are kindergarteners, they have just began to learn alphabet this year and they have been slowly introducing to the world of language art by introducing the concepts about print, words or alphabet and phonemic awareness while working at their Literacy Centers and the story telling section in their class. At this time of the year, they have already had a very good understanding of the concepts about print, words or alphabet while doing all kinds of worksheets that the teacher has designed at their literacy centers, but they are still struggling about the phonemic awareness on how to spell and read new words when they are working in groups or with the helpers. The story telling section is divided into two parts, one is the teacher telling a story and asking questions while reading, the other part is student telling their own stories to each other and writes their story down on their special handouts that has a space for them to draw too. My MT encourages me to teach the two books that I have prepared for them, I choose two books for my 2 lessons, and one is The Three Little Pigs by Sue Graves, and the other one is The Fourth Little Pig by Teresa Celsi. The first book is very good to use to teach phonemic awareness because not only does it uses simple easy understanding words, it also has a word bank at the very back of the book which has illustrations as visual aids on top of the words. Since my students are at beginning reading level according to the Tompkins book that children at this level are able to “identify letter names and sounds, use beginning, middle, and ending sounds to decode words, point to words when reading” (Tompkins, P118) and etc. I am aiming to teach the students the words that in the word bank and have them tell me how did they read the words. For my second lesson I want to teach them making Text-to-Text Connections between the two stories. Although the reading says that “text-to-text connections go beyond comparing characters” (Miller, D. P65), my goal is to have them compare these two stories and make connections while I am leading them and asking questions.