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Guided Reading 3.18

 


Plan Author: David Riddick
Date Created: 12/9/2002 6:24:12 PM PST

 

School:
Dyer St. Elementary

Grade Level:
5

Students:
31 Students. 20 boys and 11 girls. 10 E0s; 10 RFP's 10 ELD4-5: 1 ELD2. GATE class - advanced learners

Subject Area(s):
Reading

Goal(s):
Students will have an appreciation of guided reading strategies to locate main ideas and details.

Concept(s):
Students learn a variety of guided reading strategies such as making predictions, asking questions, and clarifying to locate main ideas and details.

Standards:

CA- CCTC: Aligned CSTP's and TPE's

• Standard : CSTP: Standard for Engaging and Supporting all Students in Learning
TPE: C. Engaging and Supporting Students in Learning
CSTP Description: Teachers build on students’ prior knowledge, life experience, and interests to achieve learning goals for all students. Teachers use a variety of instructional strategies and resources that respond to students’ diverse needs. Teachers facilitate challenging learning experiences for all students in environments that promote autonomy, interaction and choice. Teachers actively engage all students in problem solving and critical thinking within and across subject matter areas. Concepts and skills are taught in ways that encourage students to apply them in real-life contexts that make subject matter meaningful. Teachers assist all students to become self-directed learners who are able to demonstrate, articulate, and evaluate what they learn.

• CSTP Key Element : Using a variety of instructional strategies and resources to respond to students’ diverse needs.

 Question : use a variety of strategies to introduce, explain, and restate subject matter concepts and processes so that all students understand?


CA- California K-12 Academic Content Standards

• Subject : English Language Arts

• Grade : Grade Five

• Area : Reading

• Sub-Strand 2.0: Reading Comprehension (Focus on Informational Materials)
Students read and understand grade-level-appropriate material. They describe and connect the essential ideas, arguments, and perspectives of the text by using their knowl-edge of text structure, organization, and purpose. The selections in Recommended Readings in Literature, Kindergarten Through Grade Eight illustrate the quality and complexity of the materials to be read by students. In addition, by grade eight, students read one million words annually on their own, including a good representation of grade-level-appropriate narrative and expository text (e.g., classic and contemporary literature, magazines, newspapers, online information). In grade five, students make progress toward this goal.

• Concept : Comprehension and Analysis of Grade-Level-Appropriate Text

 Standard 2.4: Draw inferences, conclusions, or generalizations about text and support them with textual evidence and prior knowledge.

Objective(s):
Cognitive: Students will learn different strategies to build comprehension through guided reading.

Observable behavior: Students will follow along with teacher in beginning of the lesson, and continue the story reading independently.

Criteria: Given a comprehension handout, the students will demonstrate his/her ability to answer comprehension questions of "The Book That Saved The Earth" with 70% accuracy.

Prerequisite Background Skills/Knowledge:
Students are familiar with the topic and unit them of the story "The Book That Saved The Earth." Students have been introduced and are familiar with the words in the vocabulary section.

Vocabulary / Language Skills:
Listening: Students listen to verbal instructions given during directed lesson. ELD students are given help by peer tutors as teacher speaks.

Speaking: Students participate in directed lesson by raising hands and answering questions.

Writing: Students will take notes and write their Language Arts notebooks.

Reading: Students read from Open Court anthology.

Vocabulary: frigid, variable, amateur, insignificant, primitive, cease, necessity, vain, conceited, trifling, stabilize, frequently, revolutionized

Materials:
1) Pencil & Paper
2) Transparencies
3) Transparency pen
4) Open Court Anthologies
5) Comprehension questions "Book That Saved Earth"

Classroom Management:
During directed lesson, students are seated in assigned seats, which are 2-person desks.

I will give out extra credit points for students who participate and cooperate with lesson.

Extra credit points for actively engaged students

Procedure:
Procedure: Open

As an attention getter, I call on students who have transitioned well into Reading to be the first volunteers to share what they know about "The Book That Saved The Earth."


Procedure: Body

Input:

1st: Point out the standards we are working on (posted).

2nd: Establish a sense of academia by reviewing vocabulary for this lesson, and deepen their understanding by allowing students to demonstrate their knowledge of the words.

3rd: I will inform the students of the guided reading strategies they will be doing to locate main ideas and details. Strategies include:
1) Making Predictions
2) Asking Questions
3) Clarifying

4th: Making Predictions: In this activity I will introduce the story and tie the theme to activate students prior knowledge. As a group, we will browse the 1st few pages of the story. The students will make predictions of what they think the story will be about and what might happen.

5th: Asking Questions: In this activity students will ask questions of the text to guide their independent reading. I will read the first 2 paragraphs and model how to ask higher level thinking questions such as:

What would happen if...?
Why did...?
If..., what might have happened next?
If you were...what would you...?
What did...make you think of?
What did you like best about this book?

6th: Clarifying: After a grand conversation of different higher level questions, students will read independently to ask and clarify their own questions silently.

7th: Students will be given a comprehension handout to answer questions about the story they read.


Guided Practice:

I will describe how using a variety of guided reading strategies promote reading comprehension.

I will activate their prior knowledge of the story and theme.

To check for understanding, I use non-verbal hand cues to assess for confusion and clarification.


Independent Practice:

Students will read independently to answer their own higher level thinking questions.

Students will complete the comprehension handout on "The Book That Saved The Earth."

High achieving students will be allowed to expand their understanding by making their own comprehension questions and presenting them to the class.

Procedure: Close

To close the lesson students will share words that gave them difficulty. In a grand conversation, we will discuss multiple meanings of the vocabulary for these words.

Assessment:
The students will complete a comprehension worksheet on the story "The Book That Saved The Earth" with an accuracy level of 70% accuracy.

Assessment/Rubrics:
 

Reflection:
The objective of the lesson was achieved. Students were able to complete a comprehension worksheet on "The Book That Saved The Earth" with an accuracy of at least 70%. The story was grade level appropriate for my students.

The next time I use guided reading strategies I will be sure to circulate them (making predictions, asking questions, clarifying) throughout the text. In this lesson, I introduced the strategies as if they were courses of a meal, one at a time. I will be sure to intermingle them in future guided reading lessons.

In the future, while students are reading independently, I will read with students who are struggling. I will ask them for strategies that have aided their comprehension in the past.

I have discovered making predictions is an engaging strategy to focus students on the lesson. However, I must insist students keep their predictions plausible to the story. A couple of students made predictions to be humorous, and drove the class off task. I was able to redirect the class by insisting predictions are plausible to the story.