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Lesson Plan Template

Instructors name: Kathy Rappaport Week of: Oct 21-25 Course/Grade: ELD 2 Unit Name: Reading Strategies for nonfiction

Common Core/ NM Content Standards: Reading Standard for informational texts Grade 7: 2. Determine two or more central ideas in a text, 4. Determine the meaning of words and phrases in a text. Writing Standard Grade 7.2a Compare and Contrast information, Identify Cause and Effect. 7.3 Write narratives of imagined experiences.

Essential Question(s): What are effective strategies for reading informational texts? Other considerations (modifications, accommodations, acceleration, etc.):

Connections (prior learning/prior knowledge): Review strategies for reading comprehension Resources/Materials Stories about Pandas: Black and White and Red Pandas Teacher:

Students: Assessment (How will you monitor progress and know students have successfully met outcomes?) Daily: Do Now checks for understanding of the previous days lesson. Written assignments and quizzes check for understanding of daily lessons. This Week: Students will fill out reading packet that focuses on vocabulary, comprehension, inferring information, and summarizing main ideas. Unit: Reading Comprehension

Time allotted MONDAY Learning Target- Testing

Lesson activities for instructor and students Assignment(s) DueTesting

TUESDAY Learning Target- Testing

Assignment(s) DueTesting

WEDNESDAY Learning TargetStudents will be able to match letter patterns with

Assignment(s) DueComplete phonics worksheet and practice saying words aloud.

English sounds and apply their knowledge by reading words aloud correctly. Students will be able to identify definitions of vocabulary in the reading and show their knowledge by matching target vocabulary to definitions, by using vocabulary appropriately in sentences.

Complete vocab worksheets.

THURSDAY Learning Target- Students will identify main ideas and supporting details and show their knowledge by taking notes on main ideas and details and writing summaries.

Assignment(s) DueStudents read Giant Pandas and fill out graphic organizers that require students to write down main ideas and details, and write summaries. Assignment(s) DueStudents will listen to an article about a panda that escapes from the zoo, and write a narrative from the point of view of the panda that escaped.

FRIDAY Learning Target- Students will create narratives by writing a story from the point of view of an escaped red panda.

Post-Teaching Reflections on Lesson

What went well?

What needs to be improved? Why?

Strategies to consider for improving lesson: