Student Teaching edTPA Lesson Plan Template

Subject: Reading Central Focus: Comprehending Non-Fiction Text

Essential Standard/Common Core Objective:

3. RIT. 1. Ask and answer questions to demonstrate
Date submitted: 4/13/17 Date taught: 4/3/17
understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the
text as the basis for the answers.
Daily Lesson Objective:
The students will correctly answer comprehension questions and take notes using a specific strategy for nonfiction text
with at least 80% accuracy.
21st Century Skills: Students need to comprehend Academic Language Demand (Language Function and
text they read in order to be college and career Vocabulary): comprehend, various vocabular from the 3rd grade
ready. texts
Prior Knowledge: phonemic awareness, phonics, decoding

Activity Description of Activities and Setting Time

1. Focus and Review
2. Statement of Objective
for Student
3. Teacher Input
4. Guided Practice
5. Independent Practice
6. Assessment Methods of
all objectives/skills:
7. Closure
Today we are going to use a new strategy for taking notes while reading 1 min
nonfiction text.
After this lesson, I will have some questions about the text that I want you to 1 min
answer with at least 80% accuracy.
Nonfiction stories often answers questions we may have about the topic. 5 min
Lets look at the title of our book The Aye-aye. What are some questions you
may have about the topic of this book? Look at the picture to help you come
up with questions. Now open to the table of contents and see if that helps you
come up with questions. If student have difficulty give an example or two.
The questions that you are looking for are: What is an Aye-aye? Where do
Aye-ayes live? How do Aye-ayes get their food? What do they eat? Why do
they look so strange? Lets read and see if we can answer some of those
questions. Read page 1 out loud. What type of questions did the first page
answer? It answered a what question for me. What about you? That page
answered the question: What is an Aye-aye? So I am going to write the what
what on my paper and next to that I will draw an answer and write an Aye-
aye is
Now we are going to take turns reading about the Aye-aye. After each page, 10-15 min
we will stop and see if the new information we read answers any questions
you may have. Have the students take turns reading and after each page work
together as a class to write down questions. Slowly scaffold instruction so you
help the student less and less with forming the questions they have.
Now you are going to practice this on your own with a different book. Make 15 min
sure you are take notes like we practiced because there will be questions at the
end. Have students read another short nonfiction book by themselves and
then answer questions after they finish reading.
Summative: The assignment will consist of a total of 10 points. The students will receive 1
point for each question answered correctly (x5). The student will receive 5 points for
including at least 5 questions/answers in their notes (partial credit can be given here).
Formative: Students will be observed throughout the lesson for on task behavior.
Fantastic job using this strategy. Remember you can use this strategy for 1 min
nonfiction text and if you dont like it, you can always use one of the other
strategy you know. This is just another tool you can use while reading to
prepare you for the EOGs.
 There were 5 students total for this lesson. Student 1- 80%, Student 2- 90%, Student 3-
8. Assessment Results of
70%, Student 4- 80%, and Student 5- 100%. Overall, 4 out of 5 students achieved the
all objectives/skills:
objective.
Targeted Students Modifications/Accommodations Student/Small Group Modifications/Accommodations
I would provide more guided support if students are not If this was with a single student I might have the student do all
understanding the strategy or cannot figure out the reading out loud, but not have him/her read the whole book.
questions. If students continue to have difficulty, I will I would probably have a shorter guided practice because she/he
have students come up with all the questions before would be receiving more targeted instruction.
they read, write them all out, and then answer them. I
would do this and then scaffold to the original
assignment.
Materials/Technology: 2 nonfiction books (one of each for each student), an assessment with 5 questions for each student,
2 pieces of paper for each student, and pencils for each student
Reflection on lesson:
The lesson went well. I had to do this lesson with a small group because I was with the reading specialist, however, the
group still loved it. I was not able to get to the independent practice because the students took a lot longer to read then
anticipated. To accommodate this problem, I simply asked them the questions orally and they wrote them down. This was
not ideal, however, they still did really well and completely understood the process.

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