Student Teaching edTPA Lesson Plan Template

4th Grade

Subject: Reading Central Focus: Defining Theme

and Main Idea
Character Traits

Essential Standard/Common Core Objective: Date submitted: Date

taught:
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.4.2
Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem
from details in the text; summarize the text.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.4.3

Describe in depth a character, setting, or event

in a story or drama, drawing on specific details
in the text (e.g., a character's thoughts, words,
or actions).

Daily Lesson Objective: Students will be able to analyze their own text to find the main
idea, themes, and main characters with 80% proficiency.

21​st​ Century Skills: Academic Language Demand

Collaboration (Language Function and
Problem Solving Vocabulary):
Social Skills Character
Main Idea
Theme

Prior Knowledge: Students should be able to understand their individual leveled books with
high comprehension. Students should know the basics of what a character is.
 Activity Description of Activities and Setting
Time

1. Focus and Telephone Game 5

Review minutes

2. Statement of Students will be able to tell a classmate what the main idea of
Objective their book is as well as the theme and who is mostly talked
for about in the book.
Student
3. Teacher Input Teacher: Class today I am going to read aloud The Secret 20
Olivia Told Me so everyone come sit on the floor so you can minutes
hear. While I am reading pay close attention to the
characters, theme, and main idea.
*Read the book*
Teacher: Now class we are going to talk about those terms
that i asked you to look for while I was reading which were
characters, theme, and main idea.
Teacher: What is a character?
*Turn and Talk for 1 minute*
*Teacher will also writ answers on the board*
Student:
Teacher: The people or animals in a book.
Teacher: In our book we had a lot of characters and some of
them are Olivia, Olivia's friend, Ayanna, Stephanie, Tony,
Jalen, etc
Teacher: So what is a main character?
*Turn and Talk for 1 minute*
*Teacher will also writ answers on the board*
Student:
Teacher: So the main character is the most important
person(s) in the stories because there could be a lot of
characters in the book.
Teacher: So in our book the person telling the story is the
main character.
Teacher: What is your definition of main idea?
*Turn and Talk for 1 minute*
*Teacher will also writ answers on the board*
Student:
Teacher: The main idea of a story tells you what the story is
mostly about.
Teacher: So our main idea of our book is Olivia told her friend
a secret and her friend told someone and the secret was soon
not a secret anymore because so many people knew so
Olivia’s friend confesses that she told someone her secret.
 Teacher: What is your definition of theme?
*Turn and Talk for 1 minute*
*Teacher will also writ answers on the board*
Student:
Teacher: A theme is the message or lesson of a story.
Teacher: Can someone give me an example of a theme?
*Turn and Talk for 1 minute*
*Teacher will also writ answers on the board*
Student:
Teacher: These are also some examples of theme
compassion, kindness, hope, taking a stand, and hard work
pays off.
Teacher: The theme of our book Isco Etsy, secrets, and
friendship.

4. Guided In your groups you will read the short read The Little Red 20
Practice Hen. We will discuss the theme, main idea, and main minutes
characters.

The board will have

Main Idea Character Themes

The students will have sticky notes and they will answer all 3
questions and table by table they will get to come up and stick
their answers on the board after everyone has finished the
teacher will read the answers and we will discuss the answers
as a class. For the character section as a class we will decide
which character or character is the main character and I will
circle those sticky notes.

Theme: Hard work pays off

Help others
The importance of earning
 Main Idea: The importance of helping others and to be
helped.

5. Independent Students are already broken into their leveled reading groups 10
Practice in which they are reading separate novels. So with their group minutes
members they will analyze their text to find their main idea,
theme, and main character(s). On one of the group members
desk their will be
Characters Main Idea Theme
The group members are responsible for putting sticky notes
under each section 1 per group member for each section.
After they have each participated they will need to go back to
their character section and circle the MAIN CHARACTER.
When the entire group is finished all group members will need
to lay their heads down so that they the teacher can know
that she needs to come and check their work.

6. Assessment Students will use their novels from their leveled groups to fill about a
Methods of worksheet about theme main idea and characters.
all
objectives/skills: 1 point for circling main characters
4 points for writing at least 5 characters
1 point per each theme
2 points for the main idea

So out of 10 points

Picture of assessment is at the end

7. Closure Review it 5
Stand for YES minutes
Sit for NO

1. Main Idea is the message or lesson in the story NO

 2. A character is a person or animal in a novel, play, or
movie YES
3. Theme is the message or lesson in the story YES
4. Main Idea is what the story is mostly about YES
5. The main idea of The Secret Olivia Told Me is honesty
NO
6. The theme of The Little Red Hen is hard work pays off
YES

8. Assessment
Results of
all
objectives/skills:
Targeted Students Student/Small Group
Modifications/Accommodations Modifications/Accommodations

Direct Teacher Help Students will only have to come up with 2 or 3

Allowed More Time themes as a group instead of 1 per group
Smaller Groups member.

Materials/Technology:
White board
Sticky Notes
Pencils
Books
Individual copies of the Little Red Hen

Reflection on lesson:
For my reading lesson plan I taught about main idea, theme, and characters. I actually
really liked teaching this lesson because it was interactive so the children were engaged.
For teacher input I did a read aloud with the book ​The Secret Olivia Told Me​ which was the
perfect book because it explicitly said the theme of the book. After I read the book I asked
my students what did they notice and some of my students comments were I noticed the
ballon got bigger and bigger and another student asked why and she said because it
represented the secret and since the friend kept telling more and more people the secret
which is the ballon got bigger. Some of my teachers positive comments about the teacher
input and guided practice were that I used a mentor text, the use of a game to get them up,
the game reiterated the theme of the mentor text, assigned jobs and time limit, students
had to signal completion with putting their heads down on their desk, and clapping to signal
I wanted students attention. Some of the constructive feedback was to stop during the read
aloud and ask students what they notice, and prior to beginning the lesson reinforce what
main idea and theme are. I loved my wrap up. I use to not know what the closure part of the
lesson plan was but know I love the closures because I get to do something fun with the
students that is interactive.

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Reading Small Group
Guided Reading: Leveled Reading Group

Freckle Juice Group

Chapter 4
2 male students
Materials: The book Freckle Juice and the worksheet

The students would take turns reading one page. After each of them read a page I would ask
them for the main idea of the 2 pages to make sure they understand what they are reading.I
would also if they misread a word ask them to reread that sentence or word. We also looked up
one of the vocabulary words that they did not understand which was appendicitis. After they
answered a question I would ask them where in the passage did you find that answer. For
example one of my questions was why is his tummy hurting. The intended outcome of the
activity is for the students to read the chalet go over any vocabulary that they do not understand
and to answers the question for comprehension. We only got through chapter 4 so we could not
answer every question but the questions we could answer they both got right. One student said
the wrong answer at first and the other student said that’s not right and showed him where in
the passage the right answer was. This was a really short lesson because the students were
distracted because the other students were playing Kahoot with the sub.