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Reading Lesson Plan


Teach the reader, not the book.

Readers:
Date:

March 18, 2015
Text and Author:
Reading Level:
A Visit to a Butterfly Greenhouse, by Rita Crosby
E

Check new words using multiple sources of information (visual, syntax, and
Reading Focus:

Choose 1 Word
Solving/Fluency
Choose 1
Comprehension

Before Reading:

meaning)


Main Idea 1 Topic: State the topic of a descriptive text.

(5 minutes)
Introduction to the Book:

The name of this book is A Visit to a Butterfly Greenhouse. Take a look at the cover.
What do you see? Do you think this book will be fiction or nonfiction?


Reading Strategy:

Remember that every book has a main idea. The main idea is what the book is mostly
about. The book also has supporting details. The supporting details are the smaller
pieces of information that tell us about the main idea. As you read the book, I want
you to find the main idea. Think about what pieces of information are the supporting
details.
(Have students restate the reading strategy.)

Vocabulary in Context:
Have the students read the vocabulary words on the inside cover.


During Reading:

Listen in on each student reading.

After Reading:

First,

Students read independently

Inference: adding up the


clues to figure out what is
not being said.
Critical Thinking: Adding
up the clues from the
whole text and
combining that with
personal
experience/knowledge to
make an interpretation.

What did you read about?


Then, diagnose student confusion + prompt for ideal student thinking and
response. Ask a mix of factual, inferential, and critical thinking questions.

Factual questions and answers:
What is the indoor home of a butterfly called? (greenhouse)
What does a butterfly drink from flowers? (nectar)
What comes out of a butterfly egg? (caterpillars)
What do caterpillars eat? (eggshells, plants)
When it is done growing, what does a caterpillar make? (a chrysalis)
What happens inside the chrysalis? (the caterpillar turns into a pupa. The
pupa turns into a butterfly.)
What breaks out of the chrysalis? (the butterfly)


Inferential Questions and answers:

Look at the picture on page 9. What does the picture show you about the
chrysalis? (The chrysalis is like a hard shell.)
Why do people keep some butterflies in a butterfly greenhouse? (so that
they can watch a caterpillar turn into a butterfly. So that you can learn a lot

about butterflies. Butterfly greenhouses are exciting.)


Critical thinking questions and answers:
What is the main idea of the book? (A butterfly greenhouse is an indoor

home for butterflies where you can watch a caterpillar turn into a butterfly.)
Give three pieces of evidence from the text that support the main topic. (any
answers from the factual questions section)


Finally, to help students develop their metacognitive knowledge of
themselves as readers, prompt them to name the reading strategy they
are using:
Good job thinking about the book today. What reading skill were we working on?
Finding the main idea.

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