Topic: Composing and Presenting Date: Content Area:

Autobiographies and Biographies ESL/Reading for Information/SS

Getting Started
State Standards: Materials:
-NYSAA- Social Studies- Recognize at least one Adapted Book
Computers
classroom rule (91111)
IPad
AAC Devices
NYSAA ELA W11.1-Identify an area of Smart Board
interest and gather relevant evidence Realia/Munipulitives
from a source. (93121) Teacher-Made Memory Game Cards
Frutaba App on IPad
Proloquo App on IPad
- NLAPW.1.9-10.-Writing-Centered
Activity: Use pretaught words and
phrases to complete cloze paragraphs
that use a formal style to introduce Vocabulary:
claims and counterclaims, support them Autobiography
Biography
with sound reasoning and relevant
Borough
evidence and conclude an argument

CDOS-Universal Foundation Skills

3a-communicate effectively and help
others learn a new skill.

Content Objective: After a whole group read-

aloud of a sample about me book, students
will be able to compose their own power point
book about themselves or a partner.
Language Objective: Through referencing the
model and using choices, students will be able
to complete cloze sentences to introduce claims
about themselves.
Teaching Point:
Task: Organize Pre-taught Academic Vocabulary
Daily Message: (Do Now)
Step Time Teacher Does: (A Students Do Remarks
combination of 1 or
2 of the following
activities)
Mini Lesson 10- 1.Teacher reviews 1. Students engage in reading the class Staff Assignmen
15 instructional agenda for objectives and agenda. Ed Assistants will
min the day: prompting, focusi
st
1 -Adapted Book at Smart
Board 2. Students participate in filling in the K and students througho
2nd Small Group Activity at W part of the KWL chart through verbal group read-aloud.
Computers responses, written responses or picture also take data to
3rd- Review Activity at the choices via the Proloquo Application on the knowledge.
Smart Board
Ipad.
2.Teacher facilitates
whole group activity of 3. Student take turns reading, answering
filling K and W comprehension questions and identifying
 section of K-W-L chart. vocabulary terms/phrases throughout the
text.
3. Teacher facilitates a
whole-group read aloud 4. Students participate in whole-group
of adapted
practice of the skill/activity that they are
informational text.
about to engage in during the small group
4. Teacher models and section of the lesson.
facilitates whole group
practice of the lessons
small group
skill/activity.
Individual or 15- Teacher circulates TI TII TIII Staff Assignmen
Small Group 20 classroom and assists Students Students Students will Ed Assistants will
Activity Min students with their will will complete sentence small group activi
activities. complete complete starter that make all technological e
sentence sentence claims about
starters starters themselves.
that make that make Students will either
claims claims write their
about about responses with Assessment Too
themselve themselve text-only options -Data Collection S
s through s through or write their -Student Work Sa
the use of the use of responses -Rubrics
2-3 picture 3-5 text independently, -Observations
choices. and picture through
choices. referencing the
text (adapted
social story that
we read as a whole
group).

Sharing 10 Assessment: Report Staff Assignmen

min 1.Assess students 1. Students will gather at the Smart Board to will help engage s
while reviewing the take turns presenting their About Me Books review. They will
small group activity from the Small Group Activity with their that can be used
as a whole group. preferred method of communication.
Students will engage in
2.Assess students by -Asking and answering questions individually
introducing new (Indiv)
situation/application -Think-Pair-Share (Pair)
questions about -Students asking other students the review
lessons topic: questions with preferred methods of
(Example: What is communication(small group)
your friends favorite
subject? What skills 2. Using their preferred method of
do you want to work communication, students will either explain or
on this year? identify (with choices) appropriate pre-taught
vocabulary/phrases to use while discussing
3. Teacher prompts answers to new questions.
students to fill in the
L section of the KWL 3. Using their preferred method of
chart. communication, students will give responses
to fill in the L section of the KWL.
Homework-
Point System Review and Collection