Direct Instruction Lesson Plan Template

Grade Level/Subject: 3rd grade

Central Focus: Lessons and Morals of stories
Essential Standard/Common Core Objective: RL.3.2-Recount stories, including fables, folktales, and myths from
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diverse cultures; determine the central message, lesson, or
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moral and explain how it is conveyed through key details in
the text.
Daily Lesson Objective: Students will be able to identify lessons and morals from the book
KEEPERS and explain how they might apply to their own lives.
21st Century Skills:
Academic Language Demand (Language Function
Creative thinking
and Vocabulary):
Information Literacy
Familiar: well-known
Flexibility
Stroke: A sudden lack of oxygen to the brain caused by
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blocking or breaking of a blood vessel.
Reminder: Something that helps a person remember
Wallop-bat day: (made up word) a good day for hitting
baseballs
Clenched: Squeezed
Tribe: Group of people who share the same ancestors,
customs, and laws
Antique store: store selling old objects, such as furniture,
dishes, and jewelry
Rich aroma: very good smell
Prior Knowledge: Students should know from the last lesson how people can learn important
things from animals lives. Students should also have an understanding of what a moral and
lesson is.
Activity

1. Focus and Review

2. Statement of
Objective
for Student
3. Teacher Input

Description of Activities and Setting

Review with students the nonfiction book about different
animals that they read last lesson. Remind students that in
the previous lesson they read about Elephants. Students will
turn and talk with their partners about what are some things
they can learn from elephants. After about a minute,
students will come back together. Ask students to volunteer
what they and their partner talked about.
Tell the students: Today we are going to read the book
KEEPERS and learn about how to identify lessons and morals
in the story. You will learn how to identify morals and lessons
in stories.
The teacher will start by doing a read aloud of the book
KEEPERS to the class and show students the pictures. The
teacher will explain what a moral is and how some stories

Time

5
minutes

Less
than 5
minutes

10
minutes

4. Guided Practice

5. Independent
Practice

6. Assessment
Methods of
all objectives/skills:

7. Closure

have morals. During the read aloud, the teacher will stop at
marked pages to ask students what has happened so far in
the story. During these questions, students will turn and talk
with a neighbor. After about a minute, students will come
back and share what they talked about with their partner.
Students will be put into groups of four and will be given a
10
copy of the book KEEPERS. Together, students will come up
minutes
with the lessons and morals of the story.
On their own, students will write a paragraph explaining
what a moral is, what the moral from the story KEEPERS
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with three reasons from the text to support what the moral
minutes
is, and how they can apply the lesson learned to their own
lives.
Summative Assessment: The paragraphs students write explaining
what a moral is and what the moral of the story KEEPERS is will be
collected after students have an opportunity to share them with the
class. Students will have to correctly define what a moral is and give 3
reasons to support what the moral of the story is.
Formative Assessment: The teacher will walk around while the students
work during the guided and independent practice. The teacher will ask
students questions during this time about how they are finding and
determining the moral of the story to assess their understanding.
Students will have a chance to volunteer to share their
paragraphs they wrote to the class. The teacher will then
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recap what the book KEEPERS was about and what the moral minutes
of the story is.
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8. Assessment Results
of
all objectives/skills:
Targeted Students
Modifications/Accommodations:
This lesson can be adapted in a number of
ways. For struggling readers, the teacher
could allow them to work with a TA to help
them while they read in groups. The teacher
could also provide extra support and
guidance for students if they need extra
help. Students who finish early or need
more of a challenge may pick out another
book to read and try to identify the moral of
that story.

Student/Small Group
Modifications/Accommodations:
Students will have the ability to pick their own
groups and if the groups do not work they will
have to work independently. Students may use a
dictionary if there is a word in the book they are
reading that they do not understand.

Materials/Technology:
(Include any instructional materials (e.g., worksheets, assessments PowerPoint/Smart Board slides, etc.) needed to implement the lesson at
the end of the lesson plan.)

KEEPERS (enough copies for each group)

Paper
Pencil
Dictionaries
References:
Reflection on lesson: