Student Teaching Lesson Plan Template (Direct)

Subject: Central Focus: Write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a

point of view with reasons and information.
ELA 5th grade

Essential Standard/Common Core Objective:CCSS.ELA- Date submitted: Date taught:

LITERACY.W.5.1.A

Introduce a topic or text clearly, state an opinion, and

create an organizational structure in which ideas are
logically grouped to support the writer's purpose.
(CCR Anchor standard 6)

Daily Lesson Objective:

Performance: Students will be able to clearly identify the author’s purpose of a work.

Conditions: In pairs

Whole Objective: Clearly identify the author’s purpose in a variety of works through working with a partner and
supplying proof as to why that is the author’s purpose.

21st Century Skills: Collaboration Academic Language Demand(s)

● Language Function: Identify

● Content/Academic Vocab: Author’s Purpose, persuade, inform,
entertain

Prior Knowledge:

Knowing the three types of author’s purpose: to inform, entertain and persuade the reader and key questions to ask
when trying to classify.

Activity Description of Activities and Setting Time

“We are going to keep covering the topic of author’s purpose. Can someone
tell me what the three possible purposes an author is writing can be for?”
*Call on three different students for answers and write them on the board in
1. Focus and Review a t-chart form*

“Great, okay what do we need to be looking for to help us identify what the
author’s purpose is when reading a text?” *Call on students to receive
answers for all three.*
 “Working in partners you are going to have to collaborate together to create
two examples of each author’s purpose that we will then share with the rest
2. Statement of Objective of the class.”

for Student *Pair up students*

“You are going to use your notebooks to write these down and I want you all
to write it, not just one of the partners.”

“Let’s say I am going to write a letter to someone trying to get them to come
visit me for the holiday season, what type of work am I writing to my
reader?” *call on students for answers and ask them how they know that is
the author’s purpose of the writing.*
3. Teacher Input
“What if I am writing a skit for a comedy show, what type of work is this?”

“Now if I have to write a research paper on the life-cycle of frogs what type
of text is this paper going to be?”

“Let’s start by all coming up an example of a sentence for each all together.”
4. Guided Practice *Collectively as a whole-group come up with examples and write on the
board in the t-chart for students to use as a resource when working.*

“Now, you all are going to write your examples with your partners for each
of the types of author’s purpose we have been learning about. Once you and
your partner have completed this I want you each to pick your favorite
5. Independent Practice example you have come up with together and write a paragraph continuing
your story by yourself. You and your partner should have different stories
because this is to be done on your own, I want to see your thinking on the
paper.”

6. Assessment Methods Formative - Walking around as the students are working with their partners and looking
over their examples to see who is grasping the concept.
of all objectives/skills:
Summative - The work that students will have in their notebooks will be evaluated once
Tip: Identify methods as completed to see if their examples and final paragraph show understanding of the
formal and/or informal. concept.

7. Closure: 2-3 mins

Tip: This should bring *As a whole group students will share their examples that they and their
lesson full circle and partner came up with during the exercise, the rest of the class will guess for
address the Daily each of the examples by raising their hand in a particular symbol to show if
Objective and the they believe the example is persuasive, informative or entertaining.*
Language Function(s)

8. Assessment Results of

all objectives/skills:
Targeted Students Modifications/Accommodations Student/Small Group Modifications/Accommodations

Materials/Technology: Notebooks, examples on board

Reflection on lesson:

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