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6.04 Supporting English Learners - Original Lesson Plan

 


Plan Author: David Riddick
Date Created: 1/24/2003 3:44:07 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 cooperative grouping to encourage academic learning and language proficiency.

Concept(s):
Students learn cooperative grouping allows EL students to work cooperatively with native speakers of English to increase students’ opportunities to hear and produce English and to negotiate meaning with others.

Standards:

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

• Standard : CSTP: Standard for Planning Instruction and Designing Learning Experiences for all Students
TPE: D. Planning Instruction and Designing Learning Experiences for Students
CSTP Description: Teachers plan instruction that draws on and values students’ backgrounds, prior knowledge, and interests. Teachers establish challenging learning goals for all students based on student experience, language, development, and home and school expectations. Teachers sequence curriculum and design long-term and short-range plans that incorporate subject matter knowledge, reflect grade-level curriculum expectations, and include a repertoire of instructional strategies. Teachers use instructional activities that promote learning goals and connect with student experiences and interests. Teachers modify and adjust instructional plans according to student engagement and achievement.

• CSTP Key Element : Modifying instructional plans to adjust for student needs.

 Question : adjust the lesson plan to make content relevant and accessible to each student?


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 cooperative grouping encourages academic learning and language proficiency.

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

Criteria: Given a comprehension handout, the students will demonstrate his/her ability to answer comprehension questions of "McBroom the Rainmaker" with 70% accuracy.

Prerequisite Background Skills/Knowledge:
Students are familiar with the topic and unit them of the story "McBroom the Rainmaker." 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: exaggeration, Tall Tale, merciful, skeeters,confounded, parched, ornery, drought, mischief, regard, parched, drought, genuine, prairie

Materials:
1) Pencil & Paper
2) Transparencies
3) Transparency pen
4) Open Court Anthologies
5) Comprehension questions "McBroom the Rainmaker"

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 we will be working in cooperative groups to locate main ideas and details. This lesson will be broken down into 3 sections:
1) Pick the Helpers
2) Work in Cooperative Groups
3) Class Discussion

4th: Pick the Helpers: Class will be given a comprehension handout on "McBroom the Rainmaker." Students will read the story and answer comprehension questions. Students who score the highest on the first 4 problems will be the cooperative group Helpers.

5th: Work in Cooperative Groups: Helpers will quickly choose who they want to work with. Together, the Helpers will assist students who are struggling in finishing the comprehension handout. Helpers will not give the answer, but guide in achieving the correct answer.

6th: Class Discussion: Elicit higher level thinking questions by allowing students to explain their answers in a grand conversation.


Guided Practice:

I will model how students should correct on another in cooperative groups. The goal is for students to work as a team, without one member of the group dominating.

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 comprehension handout questions.

Students will work in cooperative groups of 2 or 3 to answer and support their reasoning of the comprehension handout "McBroom the Rainmaker."

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 strategies that work to build comprehension.

Assessment:
The students will complete a comprehension worksheet on the story "McBroom the Rainmaker" with an accuracy level of 70% accuracy.

Assessment/Rubrics:
 

Reflection: