The purpose of this artifact is used to demonstrate the effectiveness of teaching the knowledge of reading, writing, and oral communication. This is a unit plan made for early literacy classroom This artifact was a good experience to have because it opened my eyes to teaching a different level than I expected. The purpose of this assignment was to be able to write a lesosn for a classroom with a specific demographic.

6B- My unit plans for “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” demonstrates all of the knowledge Indicators of Standard six of the Illinois Professional teachings standards. One on the overarching themes that my book demonstrates and helps students think about is that acceptance of differences and changes. The caterpillar goes through changes and its start from an egg and grows into being a butterfly. Students will be able to connect to the text because as they grow that will be changing as well.

6G-My Unit lesson also develops my students’ own abilities to practice reading strategies. Students will be taught in a manner that allows then to work through a thinking process as well as being having the teacher model what is expect from them. The start of the unit is a book walk that allow them to gather preliminary information to to engage their prior knowledge, next students will use that information to make conclusion on the story. Student will be walked through the information that will assist them in easier comprehension of the story.

6I-The classroom as a wide variety of students that require an intense amount of differentiation in the classroom. Students in the classroom include general education students, students with a specific learning disability and students that are English language learners. In the unit plan, I have included many resources to give all students the equal opportunity to learn the connect at the same pace. During our vocabulary lesson, students will receive flash cards dependent of their level of comfort ability of reading comprehension.

6I- Along with an understanding of student’s abilities and skills I have also include different methods to teach the unit plan. I have included physical texts, the use of technology, and even the use of manipulative. Along with that I also included a craft that will allow for the creative and cognitive levels of thinking when interpreting the text.

This lesson has taught me to code switch for the demographic for the classroom you are working with. Realize that not all things are a one size fits all and that you will need to learn to adapt to the environment of students that you are working with.