5. Acquisition Lesson 16

Plan for the Concept, Topic, or Skill -- Not for the Day

Lesson Essential Question:
How do readers identify cause and effect relationships? 

What do students need to learn to be able to answer the Essential Question?


Assessment Prompt 1: How do you know why something happened? (late for school, argument, good grade, etc)
Assessment Prompt 2: How do we change the results of something by our actions?
Assessment Prompt 3: Does the author always tell us what caused something or do we have to infer?
Assessment Prompt 4: How do we use understanding of cause and effect to aid our comprehension of the text?
Activating Strategy:
  Prediction Guide  (if...then...)
Key vocabulary to preview:
 predict, cause, effect, results

Teaching Strategies

Graphic Organizer:
Fish Bone
Cause and Effect
 
Instruction:
 AP: How do you know why something happened? (late for school, argument, good grade, etc)
AP: How do we change the results of something by our actions?
AP: Does the author always tell us what caused something or do we have to infer?
AP: How do we use understanding of cause and effect to aid our comprehension of the text?
Extending Thinking Activity:
Deductive Reasoning
Summarizing Strategy:
 Ticket Out the DoorWrite to summarize
Differentiation:
 Plan for the accommodations needed in order to meet the interests, learning styles, and abilities of all students.
Resources and Materials:
Appropriate grade level materials
Above activities and attachments.
Time (in days):
1
Rubric(s):

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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 writing

Launch 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)