ELA Lesson Plan 1st Grade

Activity-based lesson adjusted to Common Core.

Lesson topic: Close Reading Nonfiction

Grade level: 1^st Grade

AIM questions:

1.     What learning objectives/main ideas do students need to know (maximum of 3)?

·       Students will be able to retell important information learned from the text

·       Students will be able to read and take notes about a topic

2.     What common core skills will be introduced or reinforced during the lesson?

·       Readers will be introduced to informational text features

·       Readers will identify what the text is mostly about (main idea) and locate related facts (key details)

3.     Which content area standards are addressed in this lesson?

·       RI.1.1 Ask and answer questions about key details in a text

·       RI.1.2 Identify the main topic and retell key details of a text

4.     What academic and content specific vocabulary is introduced in this lesson?

·       Academic Vocabulary: close read, retell

·       Content Vocabulary: orbit

5.     What materials (e.g. Map, Song, and Activity Sheet) will I present to students?

·       Let’s Visit the Moon

·       These Facts Stick in our Mind- Graphic Organizer (Teacher anchor and Student worksheet)

6.     How will I open the lesson (motivation) and capture student interest?

Raise your hand if you ever read something and then you could not answer a question about what you just read? There are times when I am rushing, and I just read but I don't really know what I just read. This happens because sometimes we just keep reading and we do not stop and think “Did I get what I just read?” Today I want to teach you that when you are reading sometimes you have to read, cover, remember what you read, and then retell without looking at your book. When you are reading it is important to take notes about the topic because then you will really understand and be able to answer questions about the topic. There are 4 steps to follow.

1. Read!
2. Cover!
3. Remember (It is ok to peek but try not to)
4. Retell!

7.     What additional individual/team/full class activities will I use to help students discover what they need to learn (suggest three)? If these are group activities, how will student groups be organized?

·       Teacher will model for the students

·       Students will turn and talk

·       Partner read

8.     How will I differentiate instruction with multiple entry points for diverse learners?

·       Students will be reading independent reading level  

·       Students will read at their own pace  

·       Students will write in yellow notebooks after reading

·       Teacher will walk around and assist students

9.     What H.O.T. (Higher Order Thinking) questions will I ask to engage students in analysis and discussion?

·       What does it mean to orbit?

·       What does the moon orbit?

·       What does the Earth orbit?

·       Why should we cover the text to help us retell?

10.  How will I assess student mastery of the skills, concepts and content taught in this lesson?

·       1-1 conferencing

·       Expectations Rubric

11.  How will I bring lesson to closure (summary questions)?

·       What did you learn today?

12.  How will I reinforce and extend student learning?

·       Classroom application/follow up- Students will share graphic organizer

·       Enrichment activities- Graphic organizer

·       Homework- No homework

13.  What topics come next?

·       Tomorrow- determine and clarify meaning of unknown words or phrases

14.  Day after- Use the illustrations and details in a text to describe key ideas

15.  How do I evaluate this lesson?

·       Strengths- Did the students understand the lesson

·       Weaknesses- give students more time to read

·       Areas to work on- reading below level, ignoring text features

·       Things to change- stretch lesson to 5 days