Week 8

I chose the unit called All About the ABCs-A Language Arts Unit on the Alphabet for my second grade class.
1. This unit impresses me because of the preparation and thought put into this lesson made it amazing. There were also so many different strategies used for all the different kinds of learners in the classroom. Such as, brainstorming, learning centers, pre-assessment, think-pair-share, independent and group projects, learning profile-based activities, and tiered assignments.

2. I learned about differentiation from this ABC unit that differentiation really can take place in a unit, and in the end every student can get the end product. I love this unit because there was different groups for everything, so everyone was able to be assessed as a class and also work with their groups to get their end result or goal. Everyone gets to make a book in the end, and the "getting there" part is important for their learning, but something that isn't always remembered. It's the end result.

3. I seem to understand it very well, after reading over it again and again.

4. I would need to teach them the basic letter sounds, brainstorming (because that is a term they may have not used or heard of before), think-pair-share may also be another concept they will need to learn or understand, understand poems, riddles, and different used of the ABC we will need to use for second grade.

5. I would modify it so my students are learning the appropriate curriculum, and so they are learning the best way possible, and understand that different strategies being used so they can use them for other concepts being taught.

6. I would modify these things by getting the corresponding curriculum for second grade, and assessing my students to see what they know or don't know. I will be able to find many things by doing a few simple assessments, which will also help me place them in their correct learning groups and give them the correct tiered assignments.