5. Acquisition Lesson 17
Plan for the Concept, Topic, or Skill -- Not for the Day
Lesson Essential Question:
How do readers use context clues to determine the meaning of words?
How do readers use context clues to determine the meaning of words?
What do students need to learn to be able to answer the Essential Question?
Assessment Prompt 1: What is denotative?
Assessment Prompt 2: What is connotative?
Assessment Prompt 3: What are word origins?
Activating Strategy:
Concept of Definition Maps
Teacher and students work together to fine tune their knowledge about each: denotative, connotative, and word origin
Concept of Definition Maps
Teacher and students work together to fine tune their knowledge about each: denotative, connotative, and word origin
Key vocabulary to preview:
denotative, connotative, word origin
denotative, connotative, word origin
Teaching Strategies
Graphic Organizer:
Matrix
Matrix
Instruction:
AP: What is denotative?
AP: What is connotative?
AP: What are word origins?
AP: What is denotative?
AP: What is connotative?
AP: What are word origins?
Assignment and/or Assessment:
Using a matrix
Using a matrix
Summarizing Strategy:
Reflection Questions or Write to Summarize
Reflection Questions or 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 programs (Daybook, rBook, Voyager, Read XL, etc.), graphic organizers, trade books
Time (in days):
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Rubric(s):
Acquisition Lesson:
1. How does the reader determine the main idea or essential message? 2. How does a reader summarize the main idea from text? 3. How do you write a summary? 4. How does the reader set a purpose for reading? 5. How do details support the main idea? 6. How do readers use context clues to determine the meaning of words? 7. How do connotation and denotation help in understanding new words? 8. How do readers determine the correct meaning of words with multiple meanings? 9. How do readers identify word/phrase relationships to make meaning of text? 10. How do readers determine if words/phrases have similar meanings? (synonyms) 11. How do readers determine if words/phrases have most opposite meanings? (antonyms) 12. How do readers determine shades of meaning between words/phrases? 13. What is the author's purpose? 14. How do readers determine author's purpose and use that evidence to construct support for that purpose?15. How does an author's technique contribute to the effectiveness of his writing? 16. How does the information within text support the author's purpose? 17. How does the reader use inference, paraphrasing and summarizing to determine main idea of a narrative text? 18. How does prior knowledge help in making predictions?19. How do readers draw conclusions? 20. How does a reader identify elements of plot structure in a text? 21. How do readers use predicting to comprehend text? 22. How do readers use cause and effect relationships to help with comprehension?