Lesson Plan

For students in 2^nd grade

The standards that this lesson will address are: preparing for reading by previewing, activating prior knowledge, generating questions and making judgments about their reading and making connections between what they have read and their own experiences.

Book used - The Art Lesson by Tomie dePaola

1. Tell the students they will be reading this book to increase their comprehension.
2. After the students receive the book, instruct them to look at and read the cover. Ask the students what they think the story will be about and what might happen.
3. Ask the students if they ever went to an art lesson and if they enjoyed it. Tell the students that they will read a story with a surprising ending.
4. Take a picture walk of the story with the students until about the middle of the book and ask them what they think is happening on every page. As you go through the story point out words that students may have difficulty with, for example Irish, photograph, and wrinkly.
5. Tell the students to read the selection silently to see if they can figure out the ending.
6. After the students finish, discuss the reading. Discuss what his friends' favorite activities were. Ask students what their favorite things to do. Ask students what his cousins, the real artists, told him to do and if they agree. Ask student where Tommy's pictures were hung. Ask students if they have pictures hung up anywhere and why. Ask students why they think Tommy was so excited for art lessons and why he was disappointed in Kindergarten and again in first grade.
7. Have students read selected section aloud.
8. Ask students to explain why Tommy was allowed to get a second paper.
9. Ask students what happened at the end of the story.
10. Explain to students that an autobiography is a book written by someone about himself. Ask students if they think this story is an autobiography.
11. Ask students what Tommy received for his birthday. Encourage students to draw pictures of what they want to get as their birthday present.