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Name: Rachel Porter

Lesson Content
What Standards (national or state)
relate to this lesson?
(You should include ALL applicable
standards. Rarely do teachers use just
one: theyd never get through them
all.)

LAFS.4.RI.1.1: Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and
when drawing inferences from the text.
LAFS.4.RI.1.2: Determine the main idea of a text and explain how it is supported by key details; summarize
the text.
LAFS.4.RL.1.1: Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and
when drawing inferences from the text.
LAFS.4.RL.1.2: Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text; summarize the text.
LAFS.4.RL.4.10: By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and
poetry, in the grades 45 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the
range.

Objectives- What are you

Students will make connections to text and summarize the story.
teaching?
(Student-centered: What will students
know and be able to do after this
lesson? Include the ABCDs of
objectives: action, behavior,
condition, and degree of mastery, i.e.,
"C: Given a sentence written in the
past or present tense, A: the student
B: will be able to re-write the
sentence in future tense D: with no
errors in tense or tense contradiction
(i.e., I will see her yesterday.)."
Note: Degree of mastery does not
need to be a percentage.)

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Evaluation Plan- How will you

know students have mastered your
objectives?

Formative:
*Observation with notes

Address the following:

What formative evidence will
you use to document student
learning during this lesson?
What summative evidence will
you collect, either during this
lesson or in upcoming lessons
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Summative:
*Worksheet (summary of narrative)

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Step-by-Step Plan
(What exactly do you plan to do in
teaching this lesson? Be thorough.
Act as if you needed a substitute to
carry out the lesson for you.)

Time

Who is
responsible
(Teacher or
Students)?

7 min

Teacher

Where applicable, be sure to address

the following:
How will materials be
distributed?
How will students transition
between activities?
10min
What will you as the teacher do?
What will the students do?
What student data will be
collected during each phase?
What are other adults in the room
doing? How are they supporting
students learning?
What model of co-teaching are
you using?
12min

Teacher

Teacher

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Name: Rachel Porter

Step-by-Step Plan
Preview:
Quickly review the stories that students began writing last week.
Pass out the text Choosing Love
Instruct students to quickly skim the text to discern whether it is a narrative or
expository text.
Ask students what type of text it is. Explain why. Who is the main character?
Read 1:
Introduce the topic: making connections. Including connections to self, world, and
other text.
Students will read the first section of the passage.
Teacher asks:
if students need clarification on any vocabulary.
what connections were made while reading
an example of text to self connection
for a prediction of what will happen in the story
Students will finish reading the story
Students will discuss a few more connections to the text
Read 2:
Instruct students to read the passage again.
After reading passage students will discuss their thoughts about the plot of the
passage. (Beginning, Middle, End)
Review the elements of a good summary.
Students will complete a worksheet summarizing the text.
Wrap up: Ask students to share one section of their worksheet with a partner.

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Meeting your students needs as

people and as learners

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If applicable, how does this lesson connect to the interests and cultural backgrounds of your students?
Students are learning about making connections to self, to the world, and to other text. Students will be
able to connect certain aspects of the text to their own lives.

Differentiationbased on the
This is a Response To Intervention group that is tailored to specifically meet their needs as learners. This
needs of your students how will you group focuses on comprehension.
take individual and group learning
differences into account.
Relevant Psychological Theories
and research taken in
consideration when planning this
lesson

Sternbergs theory of Successful Intelligence is taking place as students will be analyzing the text, practicing
making connections, and creating a summary of the text.