First+Lesson+Taught+Reflection

Reflection on Lesson 1 The first lesson that Lorien and I taught was one where we did a read aloud of Katie’s Trunk. I believe that this was an extremely successful lesson because we were able to get the students to stay engaged, listened actively, answered questions successfully, and made connections to the text. We were able to co-teach the lesson, which is something our special education teachers have been stressing this semester and we were proud to show we understood what they had been teaching all semester. We were also very proud of how well we were able to transition from one person to another especially while reading. We made sure that the students knew the vocabulary that they needed to know beforehand to successfully understand the story. The students also gave us strong predictions showing that they could look at cover and attempt to guess what would happen in the story we were about to read. The students after were able to successfully relay what the story was about after the reading as well as relate it to themselves. During this reading however, I believe we could have possibly paused in more places and gotten more student involvement. The more involved the students are to a story the more they can relate it to themselves.