Lesson Plans #1

Teacher: Ms. L. Wells

Date: August 25- 29, 2008

Subject: Reading

Grade Level: 4th

OBJECTIVES

PROCEDURES

MATERIAL

EVALUATION

· The student will identify and produce grade level appropriate synonyms, antonyms, and homonyms.

DOK Level: 2

Teacher will write the following sentence on the board:

We saw a movie that made me laugh.

Students will be asked to volunteer to replace the underline word with an appropriate synonym and antonyms.

Teacher will explain to students that antonyms mean the opposite and synonyms mean the same.

Student will be asked to name synonyms and antonyms for the following: sad, shout, smile.

Students will work in groups to complete synonyms/ antonym word sort.

Student will complete independent synonyms/ antonyms activity.

Textbooks

Handouts

Teacher Made Test

Performance Task

· The student will identify and produce grade level appropriate synonyms, antonyms, and homonyms.

DOK Level: 2

Student will work in groups to complete bride map activity to review synonyms and antonyms.

Teacher will write the following sentences on the board:

Please don’t play the radio full volume.

What is the volume of the swimming pool?

Students will be asked to identify the homonyms in the sentences.

Student will create their own sentences using grade appropriate synonyms.

Student will complete independent homonyms activity.

Textbook

Handouts

Maps

Teacher Made Test

Performance Task

· The student will identify facts, opinions, or tools of persuasion in text.

DOK Level: 2

Selected students will be asked to take a sentence from a bag, read it, and tell whether or no it is a fact or an opinion.

Student will work with a partner to turn factual statement into opinion vice versa.

Student will complete fact/ opinion activity.

Textbook

Handouts

Teacher Made Test

Performance Task

· The student will identify facts, opinions, or tools of persuasion in text.

DOK Level: 2

Teacher will give students an index card with the word fact on one side and the word opinion on the other side.

Teacher will read fact opinion statement

Students will hold up correct index card.

Students will use newspapers and magazines to find fact and opinion statements. Students will share their finding with class.

Textbooks

Handouts

Index Card

Newspapers

Magazines

Teacher Made Test

Performance Task

Common Weekly Assessment

Common Weekly Assessment

Common Weekly Assessment

Standard (1d), (2e)
Student who have accomadations will have more times and are allowed to work in small groups.
Students will watch synonyms, antonyms, and homonym video.

Teacher: Ms. L. Wells

Date: September 1-5, 2008

Subject: Reading

Grade Level: 4th

OBJECTIVES

PROCEDURES

MATERIAL

EVALUATION

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LABOR DAY

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LABOR DAY HOLIDAY

LABOR DAY

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LABOR DAY

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·        The student will apply knowledge of text features, parts of a book, text structure, and genres to understand interpret or analyze text.

DOK Level: 2

Teacher will review text features by having student identify a text feature in one or more of their text book.

Teacher will use transparencies as a guide to review terms.

Students will complete buckle down text feature activity independently.

Text Books

Handouts

Overhead Tranpances

Teacher Made Test

Observation

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·        The student will identify and produce grade level appropriate synonyms, antonyms, and homonyms.

DOK Level : 2

Teacher will review synonyms, antonyms, and homonyms by asking selected students to give definition and examples.

Students will use a bridge map along with their reader to find synonyms, antonyms and homonym pairs.

Student will complete independent practice activities.

Text Book

Handouts

Maps

Teacher Made Test

Observation

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·         The student will interpret increasingly complex literary nonfiction, and informational text to compare and contrast information, citing text-based evidence.

DOK Level: 3

The teacher will ask two students to come to the front of the class.

Students will complete double map on the board to compare and contrast the two students.

Students will read a passage and compare and contrast the two things in the passage.

Student will complete compare and contrast activity independently from worksheets.

Textbooks

Handouts

Teacher Made Test

Observation

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Common Weekly Assessment

Students will review fact and opinions by having students write one fact about themselves and one opinion about themselves.

Student will read each statement about themselves to the class and have them determine which statement is a fact and which is an opinion.

Student will completer independent teacher made fact and opinion activity.

Textbook

Teacher Made Test

Observation

Standards (1d), (2a), (2d)

Student who have accomadations will have more times and are allowed to work in small groups.

Students will watch video on fact and opinion and compare and contrast.

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