Name: Sarina Castella Cooperating Teacher: Johnson
Subject: ESL Date of Lesson: 02/20/19
CLS #1 - Objective:
The students will take turns reading a short story aloud in order to practice their English literacy and speaking skills.
The students will write two supporting details of a short story in order to give evidence for the main idea and to
demonstrate their understanding for the expansion of ideas in English literacy.
CLS #1 - Learning Targets (CLS/CCS) for lesson:
Critical Learning Standard RI.3.2: Determine main idea of a text; recount the key details and explain how they support
the main idea.
WIDA Level 4 Expanding: Interpret information or data.
CLS #2 - Introduction (anticipatory set):
The teacher will give the students the short story worksheet that they will be working on and have them flip it to the
backside. The teacher will tell them to draw what they think a hexagon looks like without giving them any prior
information about it. Then, the teacher will have them compare their drawings to each other and define the differences
if there are any. The teacher will explain to them that they will be reading a short story about snowflakes and that all
snowflakes, even though they look different are in the shape of a hexagon.
CLS #3 - Teaching Input:
● To begin this lesson, the students will each need one worksheet that contains the short story and graphic
organizer for their main idea and supporting details as well as one pink and three blue flash cards.
● The students will begin by sitting in their assigned seats around a round table so that everyone can see each
other.
● The students will take turns reading the short story until they come to the end.
● Once they finish the reading, the teacher will ask the students to set up their flashcards as shown on the
picture of the graphic organizer on the worksheet with the pink flash card at the top and the three blue
flashcards under it, forming a pyramid.
● The teacher will ask the students what they thought the main idea of the short story was and then clarify that
it is that not one snowflake is alike another.
● The students will write the main idea in their own words on the pink flash card.
● The teacher will ask what sentence from the short story supports the main idea. The answers will vary.
● The students will write their answer down on the first blue flash card to the left making this their supporting
idea #1.
● The teacher will ask the students for another sentence from the short story that also correlates with the main
idea. The answers will vary.
● The students will write their answer on the second blue flash card from the left making that their supporting
detail #2.
● Then, the teacher will ask the students for one last sentence from the short story that supports their main
idea. The answers will vary.
● The students will write their answer on the last blue flash card from the left making that their third and last
supporting detail.
● The teacher will explain that they have created a makeshift graphic organizer that has the main idea at the
top of the pyramid on the pink flash card and their three supporting details on the blue flashcards
underneath their main idea.
CLS #4 - Checking for Understanding:
The students will flip their sheets to the back of the paper and use their supporting details to illustrate a concept that
they wrote down. For example, if they wrote that each snowflake's size is determined by the amount of moisture in the
clouds, they can draw different sized clouds. The students will explain to the teacher why they drew their picture and
which supporting detail it referred to.
CLS #5 - Follow up/Closure:
"Today we created our own graphic organizer by utilizing our context clues after reading a short story about
snowflakes. We had to choose specific facts from the story and organize them into their correctly assigned spots on
our flashcards. Now, when it snows we know that each snowflake is different in it's own way. We also learned what a
hexagon looks like and will be able to use that information in our math lesson next week."
Instructional Materials/Supplies:
● Pencil
● One pink flash card
● Three blue flash cards
● Short story worksheet