Date

Friday

Lesson Plan

Lesson Five: Expository Writing: Main Idea

(Unit Test)
Location: Online Classroom, Asynchronous/Synchronous
Objectives:
Students will be able to:
Produce clear and coherent writing in which the
development, organization, and style are appropriate to
task, purpose, and audience.
Write routinely over extended time frames (time for
research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time
frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of
discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences.
Materials:
Read180 workbook
Writing Organizer
Rubric/Checklist for Writing Assignment
Evernote
Technology:
Webex
Popplet
Evernote
Computer/Cell phone
Task One-Warm-Up: Synchronous
-Students will log into a scheduled WebEx to work with the
teacher.
-Students will read over a writing sample, and identify the main
idea of the text by underlining. They will circle the supporting
details. Students can work in a break out session for this
activity.
-A class discussion will be held to discuss their answers.
-The teacher will explain how their familiarity with text
organization can now be used to organize their own writing
pieces. He/she will also explain how the organization of text
structure will impact readers comprehension.
-They will create a class chart with the essential ingredients
needed to organize a paragraph-main idea and supporting
details.
Whole Group: Synchronous

-The teacher will explain to students that they will write a

paragraph following the structures encountered in the text that
they have read, where the main idea is organized generally as a
topic sentence. Students will also write three supporting details
for their topic sentence.
-As a class, the teacher will read a crime article. Students will
then discuss in a break out session, the best way to summarize
the article.
-As a class, they will share their summaries. Each summary will
have the topic sentence highlighted along with the supporting
details circled by the class as a whole.
Independent Activity: Asynchronous
-Students will take a vocabulary unit test.
-They will start researching a news article to summarize. The
teacher will provide a listing of sites to research from.
-Once students select an article, they will need to draft the
paragraph with an organizer. They will need to craft their
paragraph based on the provided checklist along with rubric.
***All task activities will be posted or turned into the teacher to
allow for continual monitoring of students reading progress and
development.
Differentiation:
-list of vocabulary words
-list of transition words to use
-graphic organizer
-Sentence Starters to select from
Post-Assessment: Asynchronous
-Students will post their summaries onto a classroom discussion
board. A classmate will evaluate each summary, where he/she
will identify the main idea along with supporting details. The
classmate will use a Web 2.0 tool such as Popplet, Voki, or
Bubbl.us to share their response.
Extension:
-Students will research an additional article to summarize and
share with their classmates on the classrooms discussion board.