by Maryellen Rooney Moreau April 22, 2020 1 min read
Yesterday’s mini-lesson featured an “at-home” assignment about a Farm. It was a paragraph about an upcoming trip to a farm and the animals expected in that setting. There were questions to answer about the actions within this setting with suggested answers. It ends with the question “What do they see at the farm?” to pull the text together. At the side of the page, there were small pictures ( barn, animals, tractor) to color. Those pictures could be cut out and utilized in a discussion to follow the filling out of the homework.
During the actual “doing” of the assignment, Casey and her mom did it earlier in the day. It took about a 15-minute time span, including the coloring of the animals, barn and tractor. The video re-cap was done about 3:45 in the afternoon. Time of day is important as well, as this is their usual morning routine especially during these uncertain times. In essence, this lesson was an information text which led to a personal narrative.
To broaden this lesson about settings and our conversation about a farm, we are providing other setting references: Big Red Barn by Margaret Wise Brown is the selection for today’s mini-lesson reading. Other suggestions are provided in the handout.
Maryellen Rooney Moreau, M.Ed., CCC-SLP, is the founder of MindWing Concepts. She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Communication Disorders at University of Massachusetts at Amherst as a Commonwealth Honors Scholar, and a Masters of Education in Communication Disorders at Pennsylvania State University. Her forty-year professional career includes school-based SLP, college professor, diagnostician, and Coordinator of Intervention Curriculum and Professional Development for children with language learning disabilities. She designed the Story Grammar Marker® and has been awarded two United States Patents. She has written more than 15 publications and developed more than 60 hands-on tools based on the SGM® methodology. Maryellen was awarded the 2014 Alice H. Garside Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Dyslexia Association, Massachusetts Branch.
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