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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. Writing Standard Grade 7.2a Compare and Contrast information, Identify Cause and Effect. 7.3 Write narratives of imagined experiences.
Essential Question(s): What are effective strategies for reading fictional and informational texts?
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. (prior learning/prior knowledge): Resources/Materials Informational Text on Helen Keller Time for Kids Flowers for Algernon
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, and summarizing main ideas.
Time allotted MONDAY Learning TargetStudents will show their ability to determine the
Lesson activities for instructor and students Assignment(s) DueVocab Worksheets K-L-W Worksheets
meaning of academic vocabulary and vocabulary that is related to a specific domain by matching words to meanings, using words correctly in a sentence, creating their own sentences using vocab words and by taking a multiple choice test. Students will show an ability to tap into prior knowledge about a subject by filling out a What I Know worksheet. Students will show their ability to predict what the text will be about by looking at chapter headings and photos and making predictions that they present to the class.
Write down predictions about the text and present to the class.
TUESDAY Learning TargetStudents will show their ability to identify main ideas and supporting details, and also draw inferences from implicit ideas by answering questions about each chapter in the reading.
WEDNESDAY Learning TargetStudents will show their ability to write creative narratives by writing a narrative about what it might be like to be deprived of a certain sense.
THURSDAY Learning TargetStudents will demonstrate their ability to understand words and phrases in a story as they fill in the blanks of a CLOZE reading from a word list. Students will identify main ideas and supporting ideas as well as draw inferences from implicit ideas as they read Because of Winn Dixie and answer questions.