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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 ...

Description:  Build student engagement strategies with specific protocols to develop oracy, fluency and comprehension with your students!  Perfect for multilingual students, this 4th grade bundle of four independent lessons is based around the fable "The Crow and the the Pitcher".  Your students will:

• 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 synthesize, summarize and infer the purpose of this fable
• Create a graphic novel to demonstrate their understanding of the moral/lesson

 

CCSS: RL.4.1, RL.4.2, RL.4.3, RL.4.4

Skills: Work with partners to collaborate, ask and answer text dependent questions with the support of strategic sentence frames in order to... Practice using context clues ...

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• Integrating science standards and learning into the teaching of reading is the way to go! In this 5th Grade fully scripted 1 hour lesson based an informational text "The Mendenhall Glacier".  Your students will:
  • Work with partners to collaborate, ask and answer text dependent questions with the support of strategic sentence frames in order to...
  • Practice using context clues to determine meaning of unknown words
  • Synthesize key details in the text
  • Determine causes & effects
  • Create a visual comparison of glaciers and ice cubes

CCSS: RI.5.1, RI.5.2, RI.5.3, RI.5.4

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 ...

Description:  Build student engagement strategies with specific protocols to develop oracy, fluency and comprehension with your students!  Perfect for multilingual students, this 5th grade bundle of four independent lessons is based around the fable "The Crow and the the Pitcher".  Your students will:

• 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 synthesize, summarize and infer the purpose of this fable
• Create a graphic novel to demonstrate their understanding of the moral/lesson

Fifth Grade bundle of ELA lesson plans containing 4 independent lessons based around a fable. These lessons include: close reading comprehension techniques, creation of a graphic novel, writing a summary, and creating a cartoon strip.

CCSS: RL.5.1, RL.5.2, RL.5.3, RL.5.4

Skills:   Work with partners to collaborate, ask and answer text dependent questions with the support of strategic sentence frames Brainstorm, plan and write their own ...

Description: We learn to infer from pictures first!  Perfect for multilingual children learning English, this 3rd Grade bundle of lessons (4 independent lessons 30-60 minutes each) is based around analysis of photographs and 2 informational texts.   Your students will:

• Work with partners to collaborate, ask and answer text dependent questions with the support of strategic sentence frames
• Brainstorm, plan and write their own informational "book" based on causes & effects
• Participate in a science connection activity
• Write a Haiku poem based on glaciers and ice cubes

CCSS: RI.5.1, RI.5.2, RI.5.3, RI.5.4

Skills: Work with partners to collaborate, ask and answer text dependent questions with the support of strategic sentence frames Determine the key details and setting Create ...

Description: Engaging students in reading and developing reading for meaning skills, this fully scripted bundle of lesson plans (4 separate segments 45-60 minutes each) is perfect for your 3rd graders!  Using the fable "The Crow and the Pitcher" your students will:

• Work with partners to collaborate, ask and answer text dependent questions with the support of strategic sentence frames
• Determine the key details and setting
• Create a graphic novel that summarizes their understanding of the components of a fable

 

CCSS: RL.3.1, RL.3.2, RL.3.3, RL.3.4