Subject: Informational

Skills:   Participate in a shared read aloud looking for diagrams and labels Students draw an apple and label the parts

Description: First Grade, 1 hour ELA lesson plan using the picture book Apples, by Gail Gibbons. Includes:

• Shared read aloud looking for diagrams and labels
• Students draw an apple and label the parts

CCSS: RI.1.7

Skills: Focus on using illustrations and details in a text to describe key ideas Complete a chart using adjectives to describe apples with a sentence frame. ...

Description: First Grade, 1 hour informational text lesson plan using the picture book Apples, by Gail Gibbons.  Students will:

• Focus on using illustrations and details in a text to describe key ideas
• Complete a chart using adjectives to describe apples with a sentence frame.
• Write informative/explanatory text in which they tell all about apples based on information from the text

CCSS: RI.1.7, W.1.2

Skills: Participate collaborative conversations by asking and answer questions using sentence frames Analyze details and make inferences Compare & contrast the two photographs using a mind ...

Description: Perfect for English Language Learners, this fully scripted Kindergarten/First Grade, 1 hour "Closer Looking" lesson is based on the analysis of two photographs. Students will:

• Participate collaborative conversations by asking and answer questions using sentence frames
• Analyze details and make inferences
• Compare & contrast the two photographs using a mind design

CCSS: RI.K.1, RI.K.3, RI.K.7, RI.K.9, SL.K.1, SL.K.2 & RI.1.1, RI.1.3, RI.1.7, RI.1.9, SL.1.1, SL.1.2

Skills: Targeted oral language practice to describe information Writing and drawing in a Brainstorming Design with partners or individually

Description: Scripted 1 hour  informational writing lesson based on the text "Firefighters" includes:

• Read aloud with guided oral practice describing firefighters
• Brainstorm and write words/sentences using a Brainstorming Design

CCSS: RI.K.3, W.K.2, SL.K.1, SL.K.4

Skills: Segment 1: identify text features to help determine word meaning. Segment 2: students collaborate to complete a brainstorming design about firefighter characteristics. Segment 3: students ...

Description: Bundle of 3 scripted lesson plans (30-60 minutes each) based on an short informational text about firefighters.  Includes printables.

CCSS: RI.K.3, RI.K.4, RI.K.6

Skills: Building reading for meaning, in this 1 hour fully scripted close reading lesson based on an informational text based on an informational text, “Apples” your ...

Description: Building reading for meaning, in this 1 hour fully scripted close reading lesson based on an informational text based on an informational text, “Apples” your students will:

• Participate in an interactive shared read aloud of the  informational text, “Apples”
• Practice identifying informational text features (bold words & headings)
• Build language with sentence frame supports to determine adjectives to describe apples

CCSS: RI.K.4, RI.K.6