Week 6 ELA Reading Lesson Plan

Week 6: Stage 3 Activity-based lesson adjusted to Common Core. Backward Design Stage 3 ELA Reading Assignment: 5th grade reading Tuck Everlasting AIM Questions: 1. What learning objectives/main ideas do students need to know (max 3) • Students will be able to analyze how key individuals, events, or ideas are developed throughout a text. • Students will be able to determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text. • Students will be able to explain how the author’s point of view is conveyed in an informative text. 2. What common core skills Will be introduced or reinforced during this lesson? • Students will analyze is detail how a key individual, event, or idea is introduced, illustrated, and elaborated in a text. • Students will be able to determine an authors point of view or purpose. 3. Which content area standards are addressed in this lesson? • Students will be able to read and understand a text. 4. What academic and content specific vocabulary is introduced in this lesson? • Students will be able to describe authors point of view, main idea, and describe in detail key indicates, events, and ideas in the text. 5. What materials (e.g. Map, Song, and activity sheet) will I present to students? • Students will use an evidence map to describe Tuck Everlasting and his traits. 6. How will I open the lesson (motivation) and capture student interest? • The lesson would be opened by asking the students to write a short journal entry asking them what they thought “Tuck Everlasting” would be about based on the cover and phrase on cover which is “What if you could live forever?” 7. What additional individual/team/full case activities will I use to help students discover what they need to learn (suggest three)? If these are group activities, how will students groups be organized? • Students will work together as a class on the evidence map to describe Tuck and his traits. • Students will form groups of 4 where they will prepare together a short paragraph on what the author’s purpose in writing Tuck Everlasting is. • Students will create and present a drawing showing what they believe to author's point of vow to be. 8. How will I differentiate instruction with multiple entry points for diverse learners? • Due to the fact that I will be using verbal group activities, hands on group activities, individual writing activities, and drawing activities, students with diverse learning capabilities will in some way learn the original goal at hand. 9. What H.O.T. (Higher Order Thinking) questions will I ask to engage students in analysis and discussion? • Predict what the story will be about • Interpret the author's point of view • Describe Tuck Everlasting • Demonstrate how Tuck’s character is important to the story 10. How will I assess student mastery of the skills, concepts, and content taught in this lesson? • Students mastery of the skills, concepts, and content taught in the lesson will be assed through vocabulary tests, short answer quizzes, participation in group and class activities, and drawing presentations. 11. How will I bring lesson to closure (summary questions)? • To close the lesson, students will write one question that they have from the lesson learned. Students will discuss in groups and write the answer to their questions in their journal. 12. How will I reinforce and extend student learning? Classroom application/follow up, enrichment activities, homework. • Students will use class and group activity and journal entries to follow up on what was learned. Students will have tests and short answer quizzes where they learn key points of the lesson. Students will have vocabulary and spelling words to take home and review prior to and during lesson. 13. What topics come next? Tomorrow? Day after? • Tuck Everlasting is about immortality, so the the next topic that could arise in the next lesson could be about immortality and the whole focus on Tuck Everlasting. Students could have to in the next lesson write their own story on immortality. 14. How do I evaluate this lesson? Strengths. Weakness, areas to work on, things to change. • My strengths will be weather the students understand in the end the topic of immortality and the character of Tuck Everlasting. Areas to work on will be when students have questions about a point I was trying to make and this can be determined by their journal question at the end of the lesson. If there are multiple students with the same question, then I know that this area was not covered in depth enough.