2 day 2 Block Literacy Instructional Plan

Monday: February
Block:
10-11 Word Study and
Language

Time:
Read Aloud
(15 Minutes)

10-11 Word Study and

Language

Vocabulary
work (15
minutes)

10-11 Readers
Workshop

Independent
Reading Total
of 30 Minutes

1-2 Readers
Workshop

Mini Lesson
(15 Minutes)

Plan
Read: When Lightning Comes
into a Jar By: Patricia PolaccoFocus on Descriptive and
Precise Language
Objective: Students will listen
and be involved in a
Interactive read aloud where I
will highlight descriptive and
precise words and phrases.
They will make a list and jot
down words or phrases that
they like from the text.
Objective: Students will work
on tier two vocabulary that we
choose from When Lightning
Comes into a Jar. They will
make their own sentences
using the new words they
gather from the text.
Students need to be reading
on their own they should be
either reading their literature
circle books or their
independent reading books.
They can also write book
letters to me or their
classmates during this time.
Teacher will be having
meetings with students
assessing their reading skills
with informal reading
conferences and having them
summarize texts. She will be
noting topics children are
having trouble with so that she
can make mini lessons for the
following day.
Understanding metaphors
Objective: Students will be
picking out metaphors from

1-2 Readers
Workshop

Independent
Reading (30
Minutes)

1-2 Writers Workshop

Independent
Writing (15
Minutes)

Tuesday: February
Block:
9-10 Readers
Workshop

the When Lightning Comes

into a Jar and they will be
using their background
knowledge, and text clues to
figure out the meaning and
what the text is comparing.
They will also learn to
understand why writing
metaphors in a personal
narrative are more enticing
and descriptive.
Students will be independently
reading their own personal
novels or their literature circle
novels. The teacher will be
having informal meetings and
assessments with students.
She will focus on metaphors
and she will choose metaphors
from the texts they are
reading to talk about so she
can see if they understood
how to decipher a metaphor.
Students will work on editing
their personal narratives. They
will add the list of words they
chose in the morning into their
personal narratives to make
their language more precise
and descriptive.
The teacher will be having
informal short meetings with
the children to find out what
they are writing about and to
see if they are adding/ editing
descriptive words into their
text.

Time:
Plan
Mini
Mini Lesson on inferencesLesson (15 Students will use the Patricia

Minutes)

Polacco Book to understand how

they came up with what Lightning
in a jar means. They will use text
clues and prior knowledge to
describe their thinking. They will
also use examples such as As tall
as a cows back to figure out what
that exactly means.

9-10 Readers
Workshop

Independe
nt Reading
(30
Minutes)

9-10 Readers
Workshop

Literature
Circle
Meeting
(15
Minutes)

Students will be reading their

literature circle books or
independent books. Or they will
be getting ready for literature
circles or writing letters to me or
their reading partners. They will
post it note an inference or
prediction they are able to
produce while reading. The
teacher will have informal
conferences with students
assessing their understanding of
their individual books and
listening to fluency. She will also
be helping students understand
Literature Circle books especially
to those students whose levels
are lower than their lit circle
books.
Students will have student driven
conversations in their literature
circles. They should all be half
way through their books. They will
talk about connections,
predictions, symbols and things
that they found interesting in the
novel. The teacher will not
intervene during the meeting. She
will walk around during the
meetings making sure that
students are engaged and doing
what they are suppose to be
doing. She will also be checking to
see if students are reading their
novels and documenting thoughts
and ideas in their readers
notebook or on post its.

1-2 Writers Workshop

1-2 Writers Workshop

1-2 Word Study and

Language

Mini
Teacher will use Salt Hands by
Lesson (15 Jane Aragon as a mentor text to
Minutes)
teach precise and descriptive
language. She will have them
compare the text that she edited
with less precise language with
Jane Aragons actual text. They
will go into the text find words
they want to edit just like how
they will edit their own writing.
Objective- students will pick out
words in Jane Aragons Rewritten
text to change they will write
these down and then they will see
actual text from Jane Aragon
Independe Students will edit their own
nt Writing personal narratives. They will be
(30
adding precise descriptive
Minutes)
language and phrases. They will
be adding words that Jane Aragon
specifically uses. They should add
at least one word.
Read
Aloud (15
Minutes)

Students will listen to Jane

Aragons Salt hands using the
actual picture book. They will
notice and talk about how the
descriptions without the pictures
visualize pictures in their own
minds and if those pictures match
the illustrations for the book.
Objective- Students will be
comparing their own imagery
pictures with the actual text in the
Illustrations.
Teacher will be emphasizing the
visual descriptive language as
well and introducing mood.