Language Arts - Grade 1 TEKS 1.12F - Drawing Conclusions from Texts by Sherri Johnson

Category:  Language Arts
Grade Level:  1st Grade
Objective: 

Language Arts TEKS 1.12F  Reading/Comprehension.
The student uses a variety of strategies to comprehend selections read aloud and selections read independently.  The student is expected to: make and explain inferences from texts such as determining important ideas and causes and effects, making predictions, and drawing conclusions.

Music TEKS 1.6A  Response/Evaluation. 
The student responds to and evaluates music and musical performance.  The student is expected to: distinguish between beat/rhythm, higher/lower, louder/softer, faster/slower, and same/different in musical performances.

Behavioral Objectives: 

Language Arts -  The student will draw conclusions from the poem.

Music -  The student will distinguish between beat and rhythm.

Materials: 
Overhead of poem Hey, Diddle, Diddle, The Cat and the Fiddle by Mother Goose; white board; markers; tuned and non-tuned percussion instruments; overhead projector.

Activities: 
We will play the phone game, and I will start.  We will then talk about how people embellished what was originally said and how people interpreted it differently.  Then I will split them into groups to read the poem Hey, Diddle, Diddle, The Cat and the Fiddle.  Then, in groups, they will talk about how they made conclusions about why the characters in the poem did the things they did.  Then we will come back as a group and list on the board the different ideas the groups came up with.  We will then come up with some words that are from the poem, and then some that relate to the poem.  For example: 1) cow, 2) dish ran away, 3) silly

Process:

• Say the words with entire group.

• Divide into groups.

• Groups say words - start with steady beat (one syllable).

• Add body percussion to words.

• Drop words - body percussion alone.

• Move to non-tuned percussion with words.

• Drop words - non-tuned percussion alone.

• Move to tuned percussion with words.

• Introduce instruments from low to high.

• Drop words - tuned percussion alone.

• Once everyone is comfortable with their parts, add the chant rhythm (i.e., words) in a high glockenspiel or xylophone.

	Beat 1	Beat 2	Beat 3	Beat 4
High = snap = triangle				Silly
Middle = clap = claves	dish	ran       a	way
Low = pat = hand drum	cow	COW	COW	COW

Evaluation: 
I will observe the children explaining how they can draw conclusions about certain things they read or hear.  We will then read a story and before we read it, see if they can figure out what is going to happen, and do that throughout the story.  While they are playing their instruments, I will see if they understand how to keep a beat and stay in rhythm.