Exploring Standard-Based Lesson Plans

The age/grade level lesson plan that I have chosen to use is for the preschool group (3-5 year old). I chose this age group, because I find myself always retuning to a preschool classroom when I drift off into other journeys. Although I am wanting to be more of an administrative role in a early childcare, preschool is the age group I love most. Looking around online for sample plans that connected the OELD standards was a challenge, so I decide to take the advise of my professor and use one of the lesson plans from Columbus States own Early Childhood Development and Education program. In this lesson the plans focus is on a read aloud Mama Cat Has Three Kittens (Literacy). The children are expected by the end of the lesson to be able to to predict what happens next and be able to name and sequence events within the story.

This lesson plan does not require the use of the Common Cores, instead for this age group the Ohio Early Learning and Development Standards are used, OELD for short. The area or domain I guessed right from the beginning after reading the name of the activity/area of interest and found out after reading the plan in it's entirety that I was correct in my guessing that the plan fell under the domain of Language and Literacy Development. The strand used was reading and the topics reading comprehension and print concept. Being a little familiar with the OELD Standards and the preschool age group, I recognized that all parts of the chosen lesson plan addresses the domain selected by the creator. The part that stood out most to me was open-ended questions and scaffolding comments. One could really see the standards at work here.

If I were to adopt this plan and implement it to a group of children I would start by putting the book, a large cat and three small kittens on a table near where I would sit. I would encourage the children to explore what they see as I take notes. I would then ask if they wanted to hear the story book to find out what happens to the kittens. As i read I would stop to key in on the part that is going to be repeated and ask the children to say the part with me as I go on. I would then carry on much like the creator stopping every now and then to have the children predict what is going to happen next. 

I would not anticipate any problems other then the children complaining that they cannot see the book and in this case I would adjust the book so that everyone can see, or give a nod to a co-worker to adjust the children in the area as I continue to read. As for other challenges, I would be kind of concerned about them not really grasping the standard of the print concept, so I would include some writing at the end. I would ask the group what they though would happen if we continued the story and write it down as they talk, then later have then draw pictures of what they said or write some of the words which ever would be more developmentally appropriate for each of them.  By the end on the day we would have our own class book with there words, pictures and print.

For more information about where I obtained my sample lesson plan please visit the link below

https://courses.cscc.edu/webapps/blackboard/content/listContent.jsp?course_id=_56634_1&content_id=_6037950_1