Student Teaching edTPA Lesson Plan Template

Subject: Central Focus: Main Idea

ELA
Essential Standard/Common Core Objective:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.4.2
Determine the main idea of a text and explain Date submitted: Date taught: 3/21/18
how it is supported by key details; summarize
the text.
Daily Lesson Objective: Students will independently be able to summarize the main idea of a short passage about Spring
using supporting details. Students will be able to create a foldable with at least 80% accuracy.
21st Century Skills: Academic Language Demand (Language Function and
Vocabulary):

Prior Knowledge:

Activity Description of Activities and Setting Time

Before class, take a paper bag and fill it with three to four items that pertain to
Sports (such as a tennis ball, a soccer ball, and a baseball glove)
Present the bag to the class and pull out the items and let the class pass them
around. Once they look at each item tell students that each item represents a
1. Focus and Review
main idea. “This bag represents a main idea. Looking at these items, what do
you think the main idea of this bag could be?” Allow students to answer.
Tell students that the items they are holding are called supporting details, that
help determine the main idea of a story.
Tell students “Today we are going to look at a story about spring and talk
2. Statement of Objective
about how we can find the main idea with supporting details and then
for Student
summarize it.”

Pass out the passage “Spring” (page 6 of pdf). Students will have the choice of
reading by their student number (popcorn reading) or independently. After
3. Teacher Input students read the passage ask about some details they may have noticed in
each paragraph. Then, ask students to think about what the main idea of the
entire

Pass out the template with the “table” to each student. Allow the classroom
helpers to pass out scissors and have students cut out the template. When
students are done ask them to think about the paragraphs we talked about.
“We know that one paragraph doesn’t summarize a whole story, but the main
4. Guided Practice
idea does! To find that, the paragraphs we talked about earlier will help us. In
each paragraph we have sentences called supporting details which helps us
find the main idea and summarize the story”

Students will then fill out their table independently to find the main idea of the
reading. Explain to students that they will need to state the main idea in the
middle or on the table top, and then find four supporting details and fill in the
5. Independent Practice
legs with those details. After, students can glue in or tape in their table to
their main idea section in their journals.

6. Assessment Methods of
all objectives/skills:
7. Closure
Students will then be handed a sheet that asks for the main idea of each paragraph (4
questions). Students will use two to three sentences to state the key detail and cite the
evidence in the passage.
Ask students what they learned through the lesson. “Any new information
about Spring? What about how we look for the main idea?”
Students can discuss as class comes to an end.

Majority of the class was able to answer each question in three or more sentences. Students
were able to explain what the main idea of each paragraph was, why they thought that
8. Assessment Results of
based on the key detail, and where they found the key detail. Overall 85% of the class could
all objectives/skills:
identify the main idea in key details.

Targeted Students Modifications/Accommodations Student/Small Group Modifications/Accommodations

Materials/Technology: Tennis ball, baseball glove, soccer ball, 20 copies of assessments, passages, and table graphic
organizers.
Reflection on lesson: Overall the lesson went really well. During the engagement, the students had a little trouble keeping
it together when presented with the sports items, so we had to wrap that up a quicker than expected. We popcorn read the
passage and discussed it after. Students asked questions and were able to grasp the concept well based on their
assessments.

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