edTPA Lesson Plan Template

Subject: 3rd Grade Informational Text Central Focus: Evaluate Pictures and Text

Essential Standard/Common Core Objective:

RI.3.7 Use information gained from illustrations
(e.g., maps, photographs) and the words in a
Date submitted: Date taught: March 22, 2017
text to demonstrate understanding of the text
(e.g., where, when, why, and how key events
occur).

Daily Lesson Objective:

Performance- Students will be able to use pictures and context clues to help them understand and
explain what is happening in illustrations in a text.
Conditions- Students will be working as a whole class and independently.
Criteria Students need to receive at least 8 out of 10 points on the exit ticket to show mastery.

21st Century Skills:

Critical Thinking and Problem Solving-
Students show this when they are answering
the questions posed in the lesson.
Academic Language Demand (Language Function
Communication and Collaboration- Students
and Vocabulary):
will work together as a group to answer the
Understand and explain- Students will be able to
questions in the folktale Rabbit Races with
understand and explain what is happening in the
Turtle.
pictures using context clues in the text.
Information, Media, and Technology Skills-
Students use Razkids to read the folktale How
Zebras Got Their Stripes.

Prior Knowledge:
Students should have knowledge of how to use Razkids and a flipchart.

Activity Description
Today, we are going to read a new folktale called Rabbit Races
With Turtle. We are going to continue to practice using
1. Focus and Review
strategies to help us analyze and answer questions based on
the text. Can anyone tell me what a folktale is and what some
other folktales we have read are?
2. Statement of Objective By the end of this lesson, you will be able to answer some
for Student multiple choice questions based on the folktale Rabbit Races
With Turtle.
3. Teacher Input The teacher will have the students sit in the area of the carpet
and give each student the folktale Rabbit Races With Turtle
and some multiple choice questions. The teacher will also
have the folktale up on the SmartBoard for everyone to see
 as well. First, we are going to read our folktale to figure out
what the folktale is about. I want you all to follow along with
me in your own copy as we read. The teacher will read-
aloud the folktale. Once the teacher has read the folktale, ask
the students what some of the vocabulary words in the
folktale mean. What does the word boast mean? What
does the word glinting mean? What does the word
exaggerate mean? Now that we have all read the folktale, I
want you all to flip to the last page in your packet that has the
questions on it. The teacher will have these questions up on
the SmartBoard, as well. I am going to answer the first
question and then we are going to answer the last three
questions together. The first question is, What happens in
the first picture of Rabbit Races with Turtle? First I am going
to look at my answer choices so that I know what to look for
when I go back to look at the picture. Now I am going to go
back and look at the first picture. If I look at answer choice
a.Rabbit and Turtle began to argue fiercely., I am going to go
look at the picture. It looks like they might be arguing but to
make sure I am going to look back in the text too. If I read the
first paragraph of the folktale, it says, Rabbit heard about
Turtles claim, and they began to argue so fiercely that
everyone agreed the only way to settle the matter was to
have a race between the two. It looks like choice a could be
the correct answer but I am going to go through and check
the rest of my answer choices to make sure there isn't a
better answer choice that may fit better. The teacher should
go through the same process for the other two answer
choices and the correct answer is a.
4. Guided Practice Now that I have shown you how to answer the first question, I
want you all to help me answer the other three questions. The
other three questions are, What happens in the second picture
of Rabbit Races with Turtle?, Based on the third picture, what
is the meaning of the word ridge?, and What happens in the
last illustration of Rabbit Races with Turtle? Read the first
question out loud to the students. What should I do first to
answer this question? Students should reply with, Read all of
the answer choices. Good! Now, lets go back and look at the
picture. Should we look at only the picture? Students should
reply with no. What else should we look at to help us figure out
this question? Students should reply with the text. I want you
all to look back in the story and try to find a sentence that can
support an answer choice for this question and the picture.
Give the students some time to look for the answer. Can
someone tell me the page that they found their answer on?
Flip to the page on the SmartBoard that the student has found
their answer on and have them come up to the board and
underline the sentence. Good job! Now let's go back and look
at the question and the answer choices given again. Do one of
these answer choices match up with the detail that (students
 name) gave us? Depending on the detail the student gave, the
students should reply with yes. Students should say the answer
choice is b.Turtle comes up with a plan to defeat Rabbit.
Repeat this process with the other 2 problems on the
worksheet.

5. Independent Practice Now that we have gone through how to use the text to support
the illustrations/pictures in the text, I want you all to go back and
reread the folktale How Zebras Got Their Stripes on Razkids. I
have a few questions that I want you all to answer on your own
practicing answering questions just like we did today. Give
students a worksheet with questions:
What happens in the picture on page 6 of How
Zebras Got Their Stripes? (a.)
What happens in the picture on page 8 of How
Zebras Got Their Stripes? (c.)
What happens in the picture on page 12 of How
Zebras Got Their Stripes? (b.)
What happens in the picture on page 15 of How
Zebras Got Their Stripes? (b.)
What happens in the last illustration of How
Zebras Got Their Stripes? (a.)

6. Assessment Methods of
all objectives/skills:
7. Closure
Students will turn in their answers for the questions on the
folktale How Zebras Got Their Stripes as as exit ticket. They will
receive 2 points for each question making a total of 10 points.
Students need to receive 8 out of 10 points in order to show
mastery.
To end this lesson, I want to review some of the main points
that help us answer the types of questions that we went over
today.

85% of the students in the class achieved mastery by earning

at least 8 out of 10 points on the questions for the folktale How
Zebras Got Their Stripes. Based on the performance of the
students, they showed strengths in underlining the supporting
8. Assessment Results of
details for the questions as well as being able to understand
all objectives/skills:
how the text supports what is happening in the pictures. For the
10 points
students who did not achieve mastery, they had a hard time
figuring out which supporting detail supported the picture being
asked about in the question.

Targeted Students Student/Small Group

Modifications/Accommodations
4 points
English Language Learners- I will provide
students with the folktales in their first language
along with the english version.
ADHD- Allow students to get up and walk
Modifications/Accommodations
4 points
For students who need extra help on the folktale
questions, we will create a small group that
focuses on walking through each one of the
questions together. The teacher will talk through
around the room or lay out in a certain space of the questions with the students and will allow
the room during the lesson time. them to listen to the folktale they are supposed
to read alone.

Materials/Technology:

Smart Board, folktale Rabbit Races with Turtle, the folktale How Zebras Got Their Stripes,
chromebooks, and the worksheets for the questions to go along with How Zebras Got Their
Stripes.

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