5. Acquisition Lesson 6

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

Lesson Essential Question:
How does the reader use inference, paraphrasing and summarizing to determine main idea of a narrative text? 

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


Assessment Prompt 1: What is inferencing, and how does it help the reader determine the main idea?
Assessment Prompt 2: How do I paraphrase text?
Assessment Prompt 3: Effective summarizing strategies
Activating Strategy:
See attached FCIM Inference lesson
Key vocabulary to preview:
main idea, inference, paraphrase, summarize 

Teaching Strategies

Graphic Organizer:
Constructing Support 
Instruction:
AP: What is an inference, and how does it help the reader determine the main idea?
AP: How do I paraphrase text?
AP: Effective summarizing strategies
Extending Thinking Activity:
Constructing Support
Summarizing Strategy:
The Important Thing or Write 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
Various adopted programs (Daybook, rBook, Voyager, Read XL, etc.), graphic organizers, trade books
Time (in days):
0
Attached Documents:
Summarize Rubric

Rubric(s):

View As PDF

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?