5. Acquisition Lesson 1
Plan for the Concept, Topic, or Skill -- Not for the Day
Lesson Essential Question:
How does the reader use details to look for patterns and determine the main idea o essential message?
How does the reader use details to look for patterns and determine the main idea o essential message?
What do students need to learn to be able to answer the Essential Question?
Assessment Prompt 1: What signal words will help me determine the text structure?
Assessment Prompt 2: How can I use the text structure to determine a pattern within the text?
Assessment Prompt 3: How will the text features help me determine the main idea?
Activating Strategy:
Brainstorm Web
Brainstorm Web
Key vocabulary to preview:
text structure, text features, signal words, main idea
text structure, text features, signal words, main idea
Teaching Strategies
Graphic Organizer:
Matrix
Matrix
Instruction:
AP: What signal words will help me determine the text structure?AP: How can I use the text structure to determine a pattern within the text?AP: How will the text features help me determine the main idea?
AP: What signal words will help me determine the text structure?AP: How can I use the text structure to determine a pattern within the text?AP: How will the text features help me determine the main idea?
Summarizing Strategy:
Write to Summarize
Write to Summarize
Differentiation:
Plan for the accommodations needed in order to meet the interests, learning styles, and abilities of all students.
Plan for the accommodations needed in order to meet the interests, learning styles, and abilities of all students.
Resources and Materials:
Appropriate Grade Level classroom or media library books, graphic organizers, video clips
Various adopted Materials and programs (Daybook, rBook, Voyager, Read XL, etc.), graphic organizers, trade books
Time (in days):
1
1
Rubric(s):
Assessments:
1. What is the text mostly about? (Main idea-inferred) 2. What is the text mostly about? (main idea - stated) 3. What is the text mostly about? (main idea author's purpose)Culminating Activity:
1. RAFT writingLaunch Activity:
1. Introducing the concept of identifying the main idea, author's purpose and inference.Acquisition Lesson:
1. How does the reader use details to look for patterns and determine the main idea o essential message?2. How does classifying help the reader organize information to show understanding? 3. What key points (main idea) should be included to effectively write a summary? 4. How do readers identify word relationships in context (clues) to determine the meaning of new words? 5. How does the strategy of predicting help the reader understand unfamiliar words? 6. How can you use the strategy of comparing and contrasting connotation and denotation to help in understanding new words? 7. How does a reader use text evidence to determine the author's purpose? 8. How does an author's technique contribute to the overall meaning? (abstracting)9. How do readers use inferring to determining the main idea of text? 10. How does background knowledge help the reader to deduce and confirm complex predictions? 11. How does knowing elements of plot structure within a variety of texts help with comprehension? 12. How do readers use predicting to comprehend text? 13. How do readers analyze the author's perspective to identify and classify various themes across a variety of works? 14. How do readers determine the meaning of words with multiple meanings? 15. How do readers identify word/phrase relationships to make meaning of text? 16. How do readers identify cause and effect relationships? 17. How do readers analyze the characteristics of various genre to make meaning? (analyzing perspectives)