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Lesson Plan Template

Instructors name: Kathy Rappaport Week of: Feb 24-28 Course/Grade: Reading Unit Name: Reading Strategies for Literature and Informational Texts

Common Core/ NM Content Standards: Craft and Structure Literacy.RL8.4 Determine the meaning of words and phrases in a text Key Ideas and Details Literacy. RL.8.1 Analyze what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drown from the text Writing Standard Literacy .W.8.1b Support claims with relevant evidence. Demonstrate an understanding of the topic or text.

Essential Question(s): How do I support claims by using relevant evidence from the text?

Other considerations (modifications, accommodations, acceleration, etc.): Ninth grader will be reading a different text, Greater Than Angels

Connections (prior learning/prior knowledge): Reading strategies: asking questions as you read, rereading for comprehension, looking for main ideas and supporting ideas; Post reading strategies: answering questions that ask students to recall explicit ideas and infer implicit ideas, summarizing. Writing strategies: using examples and quotes to support ideas Editing and revising: students have used a graphic organizer to find mistakes in grammar, punctuation and spelling and correct those mistakes. Resources/Materials The Tiger Rising by Kate DiCamillo Greater Than Angels

Assessment (How will you monitor progress and know students have successfully met outcomes?) Daily: Do Now checks for understanding of the previous days lesson. Questions check for understanding of each chapter. This Week: Students will complete a five-paragraph essay. Time allotted MONDAY Learning TargetLesson activities for instructor and students Assignment(s) Due-

Students will write imagined narratives (stories) that incorporate themes from Winn Dixie, dialogue, conflict and resolution, symbolism and similes. TUESDAY Continuation

Final Project for Winn Dixie

Assignment(s) DueContinuation

WEDNESDAY Students will determine words and phrases in an informational text and find main ideas by defining challenge words in TFK and by answering questions.

Assignment(s) DueRead TFK and complete worksheets

THURSDAY Continuation

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FRIDAY Learning TargetDetermine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text. Students will cite specific textual evidence to support insights they have about a novel.

Assignment(s) DueWorksheet on how to use context clues to understand vocabulary Students will begin reading The Tiger Rising by Kate DiCamillo

Post-Teaching Reflections on Lesson

What went well?

What needs to be improved? Why?

Strategies to consider for improving lesson: