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Lesson Plan Template

Instructors name: Kathy Rappaport Week of: Nov 4-8 Course/Grade: ELD 2 Unit Name: Reading Strategies for Instruction Texts and Fiction

Common Core/ NM Content Standards: Reading Standard for informational texts Grade 7: 2. Determine two or more central ideas in a text, 4. Determine the meaning of words and phrases in a text, RL.6.2 Determine a theme or central idea of a text and how it conveyed through details. Writing Standard Grade 7.2a Compare and Contrast information, Identify Cause and Effect. 7.3 Write narratives of imagined experiences. Reading Standard For Literature Grade 7: 10. Read and comprehend literature with scaffolding as needed

Essential Question(s): How does one determine the theme of a fictional text?

Other considerations (modifications, accommodations, acceleration, etc.):

Connections (prior learning/prior knowledge): Continuation of strategies used in the prior week such as pre-reading strategies: defining tier 2 vocab words before reading the text, predicting main ideas; reading strategies: asking questions as you read, rereading for comprehension, looking for main ideas and supporting ideas; post reading strategies: comparing pre-reading predictions with post reading knowledge, answering questions that ask students to recall explicit ideas and infer implicit ideas, requiring students to summarize. Resources/Materials Time Magazine Around the World A to Z Aesops Fables Teacher:

Students: Assessment (How will you monitor progress and know students have successfully met outcomes?) Daily: Do Now checks for understanding of the previous days lesson. Written assignments and quizzes check for understanding of daily lessons.

This Week: Students will fill out reading packet that focuses on vocabulary, comprehension, inferring information, identifying and summarizing main ideas and supporting details.

Unit:

Time allotted MONDAY Apply understanding of vocabulary by using words appropriately in a CLOZE sentence, using words to complete sentences, and by picking the correct definition in multiple choice problems. Students will also show understanding of definitions by thinking up synonyms of some of the words. Identify the correct the moral for each fable by choosing among a series of morals.

Lesson activities for instructor and students Assignment(s) DueFill out vocab worksheets. Read fables and choose the correct moral from a series of selections.

TUESDAY Learning TargetFor 4 fables identify the problem and solution in each one by writing them down. For 4 characters, connect actions and/or things they say to a character trait they have. Apply the structure of how to write a fable by creating an original fable.

Assignment(s) DueFill out problem/solution and character worksheets.

Given a moral, write a fable of your own following a rubric.

WEDNESDAY Learning TargetTap into prior knowledge about the Middle East, Arab countries and Jordan by brainstorming ideas in pairs and as a class. Compare fables from different countries by reading a Jordanian fable and discussing the similarities and differences between its structure and Aesops Greek fables. Cite evidence from the text to support why the moral fits the story.

Assignment(s) DueStudy vocabulary from the Jordanian fable. Then read it and compare it to Aesops fables. Write the moral in your own words.

Explain why the moral relates to the story.

THURSDAY Learning Target-

Assignment(s) Dueprove the moral fits the tale.

Analyze the meaning of fables and make up morals that relate to the meaning of the story.

Study Vocabulary of new fables and write their own morals.

FRIDAY Learning TargetCompare and contrast your lifestyle with the lifestyle of a child in Jordan by listing similarities and differences in a graphic organizer. Then, create a compare/contrast paragraph from your notes. Identify the problem/solution in an article and evaluate the solution in three paragraphs.

Fill out a graphic organizer that helps students compare and contrast information. Then use a graphic organizer to write a 3paragraph essay identifying problems and solutions with water distribution in a Jordanian city. Then evaluate the solution to see if it will work.

Post-Teaching Reflections on Lesson

What went well?

What needs to be improved? Why?

Strategies to consider for improving lesson: