LESSON PLANS

Teacher: Breonica Carter	Date(s): January 7-11	Reading	Grade Level Fourth
OBJECTIVE	PROCEDURES	MATERIALS	EVALUATION
2b DOK 2 The students will analyze texts in order to identify, understand, infer or synthesize information.   1g DOK 1 The students will reference materials to determine the meaning, pronunciation, syllabication, synonyms, and antonyms for unknown words.                                                           ;	Monday Anticipatory Set: Students will list the five steps in the writing process in sequential order from first to last. Modeling: The teacher will read a short story and pinpoint key words related to sequential order. Guided Practice: Teachers and students will read a short story to distinguish sequential order key words and events within the story. Independent Practice: Students will summarize the story and add additional sequential details of what could happen first, second, and third. Closure: Recap on sequential order key words.  Introduce vocabulary terms and define key terms.   Tuesday Anticipatory Set: Ask students to think about some possible consequences of missing school. Inform students that each consequence is a result (effect) of a reason (cause). Identify key words because, in order to, so, as a result Modeling: Give at least two cause and effect sentences and work with students in figuring out the cause from the effect. Guided Practice: Pinpoint cause and effect sentences and sequential order key words. The students will write the sentences, underlining the cause and circling the effect. Closure: Recap cause and effect and sequential order.   Wednesday Review Cause and Effect: Review that the cause is the reason something happens and the effects tells why it happened. Sequential Order: Recap on key words and the order in which events happened. Intro. Antonyms and Synonyms Have students to use the dictionary or thesaurus to find words that mean the same as the vocabulary terms. Closure: Have a student to come up and review skills and meaning.   Thursday Review the story events orally. Students will create a timeline of events from the story from their lists of sequential events written earlier in the week. Students will display time line events on position paper.   Friday Assessment	Sequence chart Dictionary Thesaurus Pencil Paper Markers Posters Ruler Test	The students will be assessed informally by observation and formally by assessment on Friday.

Reteach: The students, who score less than a 70, will be worked with one on one.

Enrichment: The students who have mastered objectives will be able to share their timeline with the class.

Technology: Tape recorder, overhead projector (for those who may not be able to read off the board)

INTASC: 1-9

LESSON PLANS

Teacher: Breonica Carter	Date(s): January 14-18	Reading	Grade Level Fourth
OBJECTIVE	PROCEDURES	MATERIALS	EVALUATION
The students will analyze text using main ideas, supporting details, and summarization. The students will apply knowledge of transitions or cue words to identify and sequence major events in a narrative.	Monday Whole Group Anticipatory Set: The teacher will read an excerpt from a level reader and ask students questions that foster choosing the main idea and supporting details. The teacher will encourage the students to look for the topic sentence and supporting details from the passage. The students must be able to use prior knowledge to analyze the passage based on facts and details from the story. Small Group Modeling: The teacher will ask the students to analyze each sentence separately and decide which sentence in the passage contains the most useful information about the entire passage. Guided Practice: The teacher and the students will discuss and complete the main idea activity. The teacher and the students will discuss and answer related questions about the passage.   Tuesday Whole Group Review main ideas and supporting details from prior lesson. The teacher must reinforce the main idea, topic sentence and supporting details in the passage. Small Group Group Practice: The teacher will group students together to work cooperatively on small group activities where students will read short passages to discuss the main ideas and supporting details. Independent Practice: Students will read short passages and think about the main idea. Students must use details from the story to support the main idea.   Wednesday Whole Group Anticipatory Set: The teacher will place a transparency of a comic strip on the overhead and asks students to decide which sequential order each strip will follow. Modeling: The teacher will provide students with short passages that have been rearranged and ask students to use various signals words such as like, first, next, last, before, after, during, while, now that relates to distinguishing sequential order of the text in order to put each sentence in the correct order. Guided Practice: The teacher and the students will use handout materials to guide their understanding of how to arrange sentences within a passage in sequential order.     Thursday Whole Group Review sequential order signal words and how they are used to b ring meaning to the text. Students may ask questions about sequential order signal words and how they are used to make understanding of the text clearer. Independent Practice: Students will complete sequential order activities using various reading materials containing sight words. Closure: The teacher will review sequential order and the tips that sis students learning of signal words.   Friday Assessment	Worksheets Pencils Paper Test Manipulatives Overhead Projector Tape recorder headphones	The students will be assessed informally by observations throughout the week and formally by a test on Friday.   Students that score 70 or below will be involved with reteach. Students that score 71 or higher will be allowed to complete the enrichment activities.

Reteach: The teacher will reteach any students that score 70 or below. Those students will be allowed to listen to the stories in the listening center.

INTASC: 1-9

Technology: Overhead projector

Enrichment: The students that have mastered the objectives will be allowed to make a story board.