Brianna Lesson Plan 2 Reflection

         For my second lesson, students were in centers and at one center they worked on discovering answers to questions they had from another text. From the previous lesson one question that still remained was "If a toad hibernates in winter, what does a frog do?" I began by asking if they remembered any of my questions from Monday, when the previous lesson was, but most students focused on a different question which I did not want to focus on that day ("Why did the toad just walk into Frog's house?").But it was the question they most remembered from the story, rather than the question I wanted them to remember, however it did bring up a good conversation at the end of a lesson of whether or not it is alright that a question does not have an answer. Next time,however, I think that I would remind them of the previous questions and write them down, rather than have them remember on their own, so they would have a visual to look at and know their questions have been remembered and therefore are important. As for the informational text, I read from an article that I had printed out from the internet,  but next time to keep them more engaged I would try and find the answer in a picture book that I could read so their attention stayed more focused. I still think they did a good job on finding answers in another text and now they are better at remembering these other sources we can find answers to questions in rather than the book they came from and I think that with practice they will get even more successful at it, and eventually they will learn to do this process on their own.

          Most students struggled with recalling questions from the previous lesson which had been two days prior to this one. So next time I would be sure to write the questions down that we had, so students would know that their questions were important and had been saved from the previous lesson, they would also then have something to look at and recall from, even if they cannot read yet. Students also struggled with paying attention while the informational text was read aloud, so next time I would use a book with pictures to hold their interest instead, then they would be more likely to pullout the information I was asking them about and realize for themselves they can learn from another source about a totally different book rather than just have to believe me when I tell them that. And next time I use a source without pictures, I would be sure to warn them they will have to see the pictures in their mind which I did not do this time. For students who need additional help finding information from additional sources, I can help them in smaller groups during centers, and because we did this lesson in centers this time I found that the group as a whole had very similar problems when they had them and so I can differentiate for the groups in the future.