Reflection: Lesson Presentation; ELA unit

You are never quit ready to present anything. I was watching my fellow classmates present and realized that I did my presentation wrong, lol. I am doing a novel study with the book, The Watson's go to Birmingham. I did my presentation on my unit as a whole and not on just one of my lesson plans. That was funny but redeemable. I think I did pretty good in adding in my standards, what topics my novel study would touch on which is vocabulary, reading, and writing, materials needed and some more stuff. I think it came together pretty good. I got really excited to present it and even had to jot down some ideas that I got while presenting from my instructor.

I think my classmates presented very good. There were some good videos presented, websites that were shared, and some really cool interactive projects. One classmate used a very cute and simply explained video that would help students in the 1st or 2nd grade with writing opinion papers. I loved the video and I know it works because I used the videos for when I had to sub for a 1st grade classroom that was writing opinion papers. Another classmate shared a website called BrainPop Jr., my district that I currently work in, uses this website and it's very resourceful and good. Lastly, another classmate shared about an interactive story retelling activity that is good for lower grades for oral retelling and comprehension. It was really cute. I looked up some pictures. Below is a picture from www.orientaltrading.com of a story runner which is the activity for retelling.





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  1. UnknownJune 1, 2020 at 5:22 PM

    Yes! That is exactly what I was picturing when I said I wanted an aisle runner! Thank you for finding that. Although, it may be really cheap to make with butcher paper as well and that way you can customize it to fit your lesson. I really enjoyed your presentation though. It was nice to hear what your whole unit will be about! I think by the end of it you will have a unit you can be really proud of.

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    1. Laura ThompsonJune 1, 2020 at 5:25 PM

      I don't know why it is saying unknown. It is Laura.
      Yes! That is exactly what I was picturing when I said I wanted an aisle runner! Thank you for finding that. Although, it may be really cheap to make with butcher paper as well and that way you can customize it to fit your lesson. I really enjoyed your presentation though. It was nice to hear what your whole unit will be about! I think by the end of it you will have a unit you can be really proud of.

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    2. April GrobJune 2, 2020 at 4:18 PM

      I don't know why it says unknown either, sorry about that and thank you for the compliment. You all had better presentations though.

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  2. Zachary CampbellJune 3, 2020 at 8:40 AM

    I was really hoping the brainpop Jr. would work because I dont know if many other students in our class are familiar with the brainpop people but they are awesome. They have so many different subjects they have presented on and in fun and funny ways!

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