Common Lesson Plan

Teacher: Mr. Robel

Grade Level: Fifth Grade
Subject: Reading
Common Core/State Standard(s):
RL.5.5: Explain how a series of chapters, scenes, or stanzas fits together to provide
the overall structure of a particular story, drama, or poem.
W.5.1.A: Introduce a topic or text clearly, state an opinion, and create an
organizational structure in which ideas are logically grouped to support the
writer's purpose.

Planning

RL.5.10: By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories,
dramas, and poetry, at the high end of the grades 4-5 text complexity band
independently and proficiently.
Learning Objective(s): -Students will be able to read the fictional autobiography Where
the Red Fern Grows
-Students will be able to write their own autobiographies.
Describe how this lesson is developmentally appropriate:
What skills and content are needed to master the lesson objective(s)?
- Students will need to be able to write and recall events in a
chronological order
How is this objective relevant to students, their lives, and/or the real world?
- This objective will help the students to understand chronological order
and help them to write a completely original story about their own lives.
This will help them be original authors.
What types of instructional strategies will you use to deliver the content?
- I will read the story to the students and assign them reading to do at
night. Then, we will have Writers Workshops to work on their
autobiographies.
How does your lesson reflect educational theories/theorists?
- Maslows Hierarchy of Needs: This activity to will help students to reach
the self-actualization part of the pyramid by doing discovery learning
about themselves. They will grow as both people and learners.
Pre-Assessment
How will you measure students readiness/level of understanding prior to
teaching this lesson? (e.g., KWL chart, SMARTboard responder quiz, whole-class
Q&A with response cards, individual student pre-test, etc.).
- I will start with questions about autobiographies. I will write it down and
we will make an anchor chart out of it that we can hang up in the room.
After that, I will have the students write down several things that have
impacted their lives in a major way on a piece of paper to help them
guide their stories
Assessment
How will the students demonstrate that they have attained the goals of the
lesson?
- The assessment will be the autobiography the students create. If they
can tell the events of their lives in chronological order, the lesson will be
a success.

Explain how the assessment aligns to the objective.

The assessment aligns with the objects because the students will be
reading a book (Where the Red Fern Grows) at the upper echelon of
the fifth grade reading level and they will be thinking critically about
their own lives while writing about their lives in chronological order
making their own chapter books.
Include a copy of the lesson assessment.
Provide exemplar student responses/products (model outcome).

Post-Assessment
How will you evaluate the students work/performance? ( e.g., rubric, weighted
responses, checklist)
Report results in qualitative and/or quantitative format.
- The students will be evaluated on the stories they have created. The
stories will need to be well written and be a certain length. Also, there
will be a checklist to make sure that they have proper spelling and
grammar along with others of the basic writing principals.
Key Vocabulary:
Technology needed:
List words that you will either introduce or
How will you use technology to
review which build background/schema
engage students in authentic
relevant to the content area.
learning experiences?
If there are confusing or uncommon
-We could have the students
words we will be sure to go through
follow along on a smartboard
them together as a class before we
while I read from a book.
read the designated chapters,
Students will also need laptops
to type their autobiographies.
How will you address diverse
learning needs through technology?
-I will follow each students IEP
Other required materials:

Lesson Plan

Accommodations:
What accommodations/modifications will you include for specific students during
each phase of the lesson? (remediation and enrichment levels)
- I will follow each students IEP
Input
Guided Practice
Independent Practice
Assessment

Lesson Opening:
How will you
activate student interest? I will have the students pair up and tell
their partner about one of the coolest things that has ever
happened to them or that they have ever done.
present the learning objective(s) in an engaging and student-friendly way?
We will make an anchor chart about autobiographies and what
they are.

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Implementation

make connections to past learning? We will discuss together what

chronological order is and discuss further from there.
convey the importance of the learning objective and make it relevant to
your students lives? This assignment will be relevant to the
students lives because it will be strictly about their lives. They
will have the opportunity to tell their story about themselves in
the way they want to. They can be their own rockstar.
explain to students the sequence of instruction? (preview the activities for
the period) Every day, I will read a chapter or two to the class. After
that, we will have a writers workshop period where the students
will write and collaborate on a chapter of their own
autobiographies followed by a three-minute share period.
communicate what knowledge or skills students will be expected to
produce by the close of the lesson? Students will know that they are
working on chronological order, reading comprehension and that
they are to be able to write a story about themselves.
Instructional Input
How will you model/explain/demonstrate all knowledge and skills required of
the objective?
Restate the objective Point over to the autobiography anchor
chart and go over it with the students. Explain to the children
Guided Practice
How will students practice, with your support, all content and skills required
to continue to internalize the objective? (How will students be engaged?)
Students will read along with the teacher in the story. After that,
Independent
Practice
they will
be in charge of writing and cooperating with their
How will you clearly state and model academic and behavioral expectations?
I will read portions of an autobiography that I made of myself. This
will be good for the students because they can see how I arrange
Lesson Closing
my life events and they can also get to know me a little bit better.
How will you
Review the skills/content taught in an interactive manner (whole/small
group, individually)
Students will talk about their own lives and what they wrote with
their partners and then we can talk about the events of the book
again as well.
Reemphasize and clarify the objective
Reassess students mastery of, or progress toward the objective? (if not
already assessed)
After you have administered your assessments (formal or informal) for this lesson,
analyze the results.
How did the students perform on this assessment? To what degree did they
achieve mastery toward the lesson objective(s)?
How will you provide opportunities for remediation and extension?
Reflect on your effectiveness as a teacher based on the analysis of students
performance.
List two things you feel you did well to plan, implement, or assess
instruction.
Describe the changes you would make if you were to teach this lesson