Fish Bedroom Observation: Alyssa, Iris

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In the beginning of my lesson, I started off by asked my three students Alyssa, Iris, and Violet several different questions. The main question that I asked my students were what they thought the story was going to be about by simply just looking at the cover. Of course, all three guessed diferent things. Alyssa, did not cooperate very well with the lesson. She did not even want to guess or look at the story. Finally, when Alyssa did guess she guessed one thing that the story was going to be about a snail named sticky that lived in the fishtank. Iris’s guess was what the cover had on it which was a fish tank. Therefore, Iris assumed that it was going to be a story about something involving that fish tank. She was enthused and wanted to read …show more content…

My students were the type of students who had short intesnin spans. I could never keep them interested in stories, let alone have them guess what they thought the story was going to be about. As I began to ask questions I noticed that the students became involved. All of my students wanted to predicted what they thought the story was going to be about, besides Alyssa. Alyssa did not want to participate in this actvivity because turns out she had already read the story, therefore, she already knew what it was going to be about. By the end of this activity, I was very excited to see how much attention my class paid when I read the story out loud to them. I even asked my students at the end of the story what kept their attention to the story so well. They were more than happy to tell me that they just wanted to beat their friends. The predictions turned out to be a little competition between each other. This kept their attention throughout the whole story that way they would know exactly whose prediction was right. Starting off I did not think anything would be able to get my students to focus on my lessons, but having them be able to compete against each other grasped their attention very well. I even watched Alyssa get into the competiton, which of course she won because she had already read the story. I overheard all three students talking to each other

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