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“Breaker Boys: A Light at the End of the Tunnel” Informational Bundle

4th Grade • Lesson Plan Bundle
$6.00
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Quick Facts

Subject: ELA, Informational

Type: Lesson Plan Bundle

Skills:

  • Participate in a series of engaging close reading lessons with many opportunities to develop vocabulary through oral language practice
  • Ask and answer text dependent questions in order to determine primary cause and significant effects 
  • Determine headings for the text by summarizing the main ideas
  • Create a crossword puzzle that demonstrates an understanding of the informational text

Materials Needed:

  • Blank & lined pieces of paper
  • Pencil & crayons/colored pencils
  • Document camera or whiteboard.

Printable Resources: Required:

  • Copies of Informational Text: “Breaker Boys: A Light at the End of the Tunnel” by Jennifer Kaul (1 per student)
Optional:
  • “Exit Slip” –or- blank paper as an assessment component(1 copy per student)
  • Causal Reasoning Design (Focus on Effects) graphic organizer (1 copy per student)
  • “Breaker Boys- Crossword Puzzle” (1 copy per student)
(All optional printable resources can be projected and students can copy them on blank paper.)

CCSS: RI.4.1, RI.4.2, RI.4.3, RI.4.4, & RI.4.5

File Type: PDF Document

Lesson Plan Description

Perfect for multilingual students learning English, this series of lessons includes strategic scaffolding with sentence frames for building vocabulary through collaborative conversations.  Using an informational text: “Breaker Boys: A Light at the End of the Tunnel” by Jennifer Kaul  your students will:

  • Segment 1: Work with partners and academic sentence frames to take a literal interpretation of informational text to evaluation and synthesis using text evidence questions
  • Segment 2: Collaborate with their peers to document the effects of the job on the Breaker Boys
  • Segment 3: Demonstrate the main idea by creating headings for the informational text
    Segment 4: Create a crossword puzzle that demonstrates an understanding of the informational text

These lessons can be taught over the span of a half day or you can use the lessons independently, broken up over several days.