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Standard: Craft and Structure: Identify the front cover, back cover, and title page of a book
Language Demands:
This lesson requires that students understand academic English
III. CURRICULUM CONNECTION (How lesson fits into larger unit sequence):
The lesson that would come before this would be students asking questions about key details in the
book with prompt and support from the teacher. The lesson that would come after this would be to have the
students identify other aspects of the book such as periods, exclamation marks and question marks. They
would also have to understand that certain words have specific meanings.
IV. INSTRUCTION
A. ENGAGEMENT (Motivational Activity):
Anticipatory Set: Speak about the book you will be reading to the students. Mention the storyline and the
main character of the book in order to get the kids excited to read the book.
Purpose: Students are learning this because this is the first step in beginning to learn that letters and words
have a specific meaning. Overall, this leads to learning to read.
Step #2: Ask students what they think the book will be about according to the title
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b. Student response: Check for understanding: active participation: think pair share, choral response,
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Step #3: Begin to read while pointing to the word. Ask questions as you go.
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b. Student response: Check for understanding: active participation: think pair share, choral response,
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Step #4: Ask student how they think the item will feel and what will be behind the item (pop-up
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b. Student response: Check for understanding: active participation: think pair share, choral response,
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Step #5: Ask students about the story, list the different textures.
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b. Student response: Check for understanding: active participation: think pair share, choral response,
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Step #6: Introduce second book: Zoo animals. Ask students to identify book elements that they were
taught with the previous book.
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b. Student response: Check for understanding: active participation: think pair share, choral response,
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Step #7: ask students what sound does the animal on the current page makes.
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b. Student response: Check for understanding: active participation: think pair share, choral response,
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Step #8: ask students about the story and which was their favorite animal.
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b. Student response: Check for understanding: active participation: think pair share, choral response,
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Step #9: Ask students to help teacher identify the book elements.
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b. Student response: Check for understanding: active participation: think pair share, choral response,
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Step #10: ask student to practice identifying book elements with their partners.
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b. Student response: Check for understanding: active participation: think pair share, choral response,
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C. APPLICATION ACTIVITY (Practice and/or Reflection): We will work with a group of students and
guide them during the lesson.Show students once again where to find elements of the book as well as how
to hold it.
Find those elements together.Ask students to find elements of the book by themselves and then show a
partner.
Formative: During lesson ask students to as a group point out what they believe is the front cover, back
cover and title.
Summative: At the end of the lesson have the students identify the aspects of the book with prompting
from the teacher.
The way we will help struggling learners is by partnering them up with a high achiever and have them
work together.