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Lesson Plan

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Each session tutors come with an lesson  plan filled out. Tutors are to complete the lesson plan before coming to the session. At the end of the session the tutors have time to add feedback to the template.

 

 

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Setting the Stage
Games (Phonemic Awareness)
Letters and Sounds (Letter Name and Sounds)
Wonderful Words (Sight Words)
Open Pages (Read/Reread Books)

Setting the Stage is the part of the lesson plan where students and tutors learn more about each other and prepare for the session to begin. This should be the first section completed. Tutors can ask students how their day was or what they did over the weekend. During the first week of the session an interest inventory was given to quickly gain an insight into what their student enjoys.

In the game section, students work with games and activities that help students build  their phonemic awareness skills. Phonemic awareness is the understanding that spoken words are made up of individual sounds that can be blended together to make words (The National Reading Panel Report,2000).

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Also in this section students work with games and activities to build phonological awareness. "Phonological awareness is the understanding of different ways that oral language can be divided into smaller components and manipulated" (Chard & Dickson, 2015).

In the Letters and Sounds section, students worked on identifying letters, both upper and lower case and the sounds of each letter. 

In the Wonderful Words section student work using different games and activities to work on their Sight Word and High Frequency Words sills. Sight Words are words that are often phonetically irregular. High Frequency Words are words which occur at a high rate in reading and can be sounded out phonetically and  can be identified quickly.

In the Open Pages section, students listen to their tutor read an authentic text. The book chosen is based on interest of the student, in order to show them that their are books that they enjoy and to show they that reading can be fun. Tutors can base chooses off of their Interest Inventory given the first session.

Example Lesson Plan

Sticker Chart

For an idea of what each lesson plan looked like each week, an example is provided on the right. 

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The tutor fills out the top with their name, session date, and their students' initials. 

For each section of the lesson plan. tutors list the games and activities that they are going to use that week. Once sections are completed tutors make feedback notes about the game or activity next to where they listed it. 

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In the boxes with the emoticons tutors and students mark how they felt that activity went. This is done after each section of the tutoring session. Shown are three ways these could be done. The first way is in the top box with both the tutor and student's initials with how they felt. The second way is shown in the third box down with the tutor and student's initials with a color that goes along with the actual emoticon. The third way is shown in the fourth box down, where the actual emoticon is colored in and the initials of both the tutors and students are under the one they felt best represents that section. 

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The circled numbers along the left side of the chart represents the orders that the tutor completed the lesson plan. The first section was always Setting the Stage, after that tutors got to choose which order the rest was completed in.

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Lastly, at the top of the chart, tutors can communicate any urgent issues. This could be that tutors were in need of a material or that they were struggling to teach their student a certain skill and needed other ideas. 

Then after the session the site supervisor reviews the plan and address any urgent issues.

In some cases tutors struggled to keep their student motivated throughout the entire session. In order to help tutors and students stay on track an sticker chart was created. Once students completed a section they placed a sticker in the box on the right, at the end of the session if students had a sticker in each box they got to pick a reward at the end of the session.

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