Watch the video in the video section of this module entitled, Component 7: Lesson Delivery. In a reflective response, answer the following questions:

1. What do you observe about the classroom setup?

2. What do you observe about the student population of this class?

3. What subject area, standard AND possible objective is the teacher targeting?

4. Is this lesson mostly teacher-centered or mostly student-centered? Explain your response.

5. What are 3 teaching strategies the teacher implements in her lesson?

6. How does the teacher provide feedback to her students during her lesson?

7. How can the teacher assess her students after this lesson?

Then process to…

The purpose of this activity is to highlight the important information related to phonological awareness and create focal points as you view the video through the questions. Complete your answers briefly. This is for your note-taking and study purposes. There is a 1 point award for submitting your completed notes. Processing through this activity builds your background knowledge about phonological awareness. Phonological awareness is a concept you will need to know well in order to successfully teach learners to read. It is also critical you are able to distinguish between phonological awareness and phonemic awareness.

REACH Workshop Series: Phonological Awareness (Links to an external site.)

• Think about what you are viewing and what you are learning in this class.
• What is phonological awareness?
• What is phonological awareness composed of?
• Why did one teacher use blank cards when asking students to identify how many words they hear in a sentence? Why?
• Why are icons, hand gestures, and chips or markers being used instead of actual written words?

Then proceed to..

The purpose of this activity is to highlight the important information related to phonological awareness and create focal points as you view the video through the questions. Complete your answers briefly. This is for your note-taking and study purposes. There is a 1 point award for submitting your completed notes. Processing through this activity builds your background knowledge about phonemic awareness. Phonemic awareness is a concept you will need to know well in order to successfully teach learners to read. Research shows, the stronger a child’s phonemic awareness is, the more likely she/he will learn to read well.

Monday Mornings with Marisa: Phonemic Awareness (Links to an external site.)

• Listen to the lesson being presented.
• While this is a demonstration for content available to a specific text and series, the video is full of quality, accurate content that relates to phonemic awareness.
• What is the focus of this lesson?
• What are the students being asked to do? Why?
• What differentiates between a phonemic awareness lesson and a phonics lesson?