Rachel Howard

EDUC 4230
Lesson Plan #1
Student Teaching Lesson Plan Format
Lesson Title
Introduction to Theme
Long Range Objective
Students will be able to convey a theme of a text and will be able to support the theme with specific details from
the text. Students will be able to communicate their personal opinions successfully, clearly, and appropriately.
Instructional Objectives (GLEs)
1. Key Ideas and Details (Literature): Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text
says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
2. Craft and Structure (Literature): Analyze how a particular sentence, chapter, scene, or stanza fits
into the overall structure of a text and contributes to the development of the theme, setting, or plot.
Instructional Considerations
Students read and comprehend at different reading and instructional levels. Students may need more practice
than others in understanding the concept of theme. The teacher will provide books of different reading levels for
students to read at their own pace and ability.
Instructional Strategies
1. Lecture whole group: Students will watch/participate in a PowerPoint presentation presented by the
teacher.
2. Partner work: The teacher will read a short story to the class, and the students will think-pair share
and discuss
thoughts with the class. The teacher will use a graphic organizer web on chart paper to express the
theme in the middle and the supporting details around the theme.
3. Organizing thoughts: The students will read a short story on their own, filling out a graphic
organizer expressing the theme and the supporting details.
Materials and Media
PowerPoint Presentation
82 Graphic Organizers
Short stories with focus on theme
82 Exit Tickets
Student Practice
1.
Supervised: Students will think-pair-share to determine the theme of a short story read by the
teacher to the class. The teacher will listen to students and will help guide the conversation
where needed. Students will discuss supporting details that led to discovering the theme.
Students may also share their opinion of the short story with one another. The teacher should
be moving around the group spending time with each one.
2.
Independent: Students will read a short story and will write the theme of the story and the
supporting details that go with it in a graphic organizer. The short story will be given to
students based off of their reading level. The students can use a highlighter to highlight the
supporting details. Each of the short stories will be labeled for the students reading that story.
Supplemental Activities
1.
Enrichment: Students will write their own short stories, share those stories with classmates,
and the students will express the theme of their classmates story.
2.
Re-teaching: Students will work with a partner and will create a picture that will help them
remember the definition of theme.

Evaluation
The teacher will use the graphic organizers to see where students are individually with grasping the concept
of theme. The students will complete an Exit Ticket about theme.