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Lesson Plan Template

Instructors name: Kathy Rappaport Week of: Nov 11-15 Course/Grade: Reading Unit Name: Reading Strategies for fictional and informational texts

Common Core/ NM Content Standards: Reading Standard for informational texts Grade 7: 2. Determine two or more central ideas in a text, 4. Determine the meaning of words and phrases in a text. Writing Standard Grade 7.2a Compare and Contrast information, Identify Cause and Effect. 7.3 Write narratives of imagined experiences.

Essential Question(s): What are effective strategies for reading fictional and informational texts?

Other considerations (modifications, accommodations, acceleration, etc.):

Connections (prior learning/prior knowledge): Connections (prior learning/prior knowledge): Continuation of strategies used in the prior week such as pre-reading strategies: defining tier 2 vocab words before reading the text, predicting main ideas; reading strategies: asking questions as you read, rereading for comprehension, looking for main ideas and supporting ideas; post reading strategies: comparing pre-reading predictions with post reading knowledge, answering questions that ask students to recall explicit ideas and infer implicit ideas, requiring students to summarize. Resources/Materials Time for Kids Teacher:

Students: Assessment (How will you monitor progress and know students have successfully met outcomes?) Daily: Do Now checks for understanding of the previous days lesson. Written assignments and quizzes check for understanding of daily lessons. This Week: Students will fill out reading packet that focuses on vocabulary, comprehension, inferring information, and summarizing main ideas.

Time allotted MONDAY Learning Target- Students will show understanding of vocabulary by writing the definition in their own words and using words in sentences they create.

Lesson activities for instructor and students Assignment(s) DueStudents will find the challenging vocabulary words in Time for Kids and write the definitions in their own words.

Students will brainstorm everything they know about the problems wolves face in America. Students will predict information they will read about by looking at headlines and photos and write them down. Students will write down three questions they hope to have answered as they read the magazine.

Students will write down their predictions and questions and turn them in. Students will read the feature article aloud as a class.

TUESDAY Learning TargetStudents will identify the main idea of each paragraph in the feature article and other articles by answering one question per paragraph and writing down the answers. Students will identify the main idea of an article and supporting ideas without the scaffolding help of premade questions. They will show what they know by writing it down. WEDNESDAY Learning Target- Students will compare and contrast the problems facing coyotes and wolves by filling out a compare/contrast graphic organizer and then writing a couple paragraphs with topic sentences and supporting details.

Assignment(s) DueWorksheet Packet for Time for Kids

Assignment(s) DueStudents will read informational article on coyotes and compare and contrast the article with the article they read on wolves.

THURSDAY Learning Target- Students will define vocabulary words and apply knowledge by choosing synonyms for words, fitting words appropriately into sentences, listing verbs and drawing pictures of nouns. Students will predict what the reading will be about from vocabulary, title and photos and share predictions as a class Student will share what they know about the topic and share their ideas as a class

Assignment(s) DueStudents will turn in vocab worksheets

FRIDAY Learning Target- Students will read story as a class and write main ideas and supporting details after three sections. Students will understand implicit and explicit ideas in the reading and show understanding by answering questions.

Assignment(s) DueStudents will turn in worksheets.

Post-Teaching Reflections on Lesson

What went well?

What needs to be improved? Why?

Strategies to consider for improving lesson: