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Lesson Plan Template

Instructors name: Kathy Rappaport Week of: Feb 10-13 Course/Grade: Reading Unit Name: Reading Strategies for Literature and Informational Texts

Common Core/ NM Content Standards: Craft and Structure Literacy.RL8.4 Determine the meaning of words and phrases in a text Key Ideas and Details Literacy. RL.8.1 Analyze what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drown from the text Writing Standard Literacy .W.8.1b Support claims with relevant evidence. Demonstrate an understanding of the topic or text.

Essential Question(s): How do I support claims by using relevant evidence from the text?

Other considerations (modifications, accommodations, acceleration, etc.): Ninth grader will be reading a different text, Greater Than Angels

Connections (prior learning/prior knowledge): Reading strategies: asking questions as you read, rereading for comprehension, looking for main ideas and supporting ideas; Post reading strategies: answering questions that ask students to recall explicit ideas and infer implicit ideas, summarizing. Writing strategies: using examples and quotes to support ideas Editing and revising: students have used a graphic organizer to find mistakes in grammar, punctuation and spelling and correct those mistakes. Resources/Materials Because of Winn-Dixie Greater Than Angels

Assessment (How will you monitor progress and know students have successfully met outcomes?) Daily: Do Now checks for understanding of the previous days lesson. Questions check for understanding of each chapter. This Week: Students will complete a five-paragraph essay. Time allotted MONDAY Learning TargetStudents will review and revise worksheets from Lesson activities for instructor and students Assignment(s) DueReview and revise worksheets 8-12

Winn Dixie Students will complete worksheets for Chapters 13-14 Students will write an essay showing life lessons Opal learns from meeting various people in Because of Winn Dixie. Students will review how to use the transition, for example, in an essay. Students will include an introductory paragraph, two body paragraphs that include a topic sentence, supporting details (examples and quotes), transitions between paragraphs and a conclusion.

Students will analyze complex characters in Chapter 13-14 and answer questions. Students will cite evidence from a text to support claims by writing an essay about Winn Dixie. Students will use appropriate transitions to create cohesion and clarify relationships among ideas by putting transitions between paragraphs in their essays.

TUESDAY Learning TargetStudents will read aloud chapters 15-19 and demonstrate understanding of main ideas, both explicit and implied ideas by writing answers to questions and sharing ideas in a discussion. WEDNESDAY Continuation from yesterday

Assignment(s) DueWorksheet for chapters 15-19

Assignment(s) DueContinuation

THURSDAY Learning TargetStudents will demonstrate their understanding of vocabulary words from Winn Dixie by choosing the correct definition and by writing sentences using these words as they take a quiz. Students will demonstrate an understanding of main ideas in Chapter 20, both explicit and implied, by writing answers to questions.

Assignment(s) DueStudents take a vocab quiz.

Questions for Chapter 20

FRIDAY Learning TargetStudents will analyze the development of a theme over the course of the text by answering questions about how a major theme is expressed in chapter

Assignment(s) Due-

Questions for Chapter 21

21. Students will show an understanding of formal English by correcting fragments and run on sentences as they take a quiz. Quiz

Post-Teaching Reflections on Lesson

What went well?

What needs to be improved? Why?

Strategies to consider for improving lesson: