Fall+Literacy+Plan

 This is the beginning of the school year. I will want to introduce each of these concepts to my students along with one mini-lesson idea that they can use that will not only help them in Engish Literature class but any other class as well. These are all lessons I would use where appropriate during our reading of literature. All students would have their reading textbooks out to use as needed.

1. Organizing Text Information by Sculpting the Main Idea and Summarizing Sorry, I Lost My Headings - teach them to read the story by breaking down what they have read into sections. I think this is a great mini-lesson to start out the school year. This will serve them well in all of their classes throughout the year. Take a chapter from one of our reading selections and break it down into sections (this is a literature class so our textbooks are different than other clases) Model for the students how I notice and mark the important information in that section. Then I will think aloud how I would create my own heading. Discuss with the students wheather my headings are too general or specific. This will help them to refine their thoughts to be clear and focused. Have the students work in pairs to fill in the rest of the heading then discuss as a class. //Assessment:// Can they recall important details? Can they recall the sequence of events?

2. Connecting to Background Knowledge I'll be teaching literature so this is perfect for getting them started. Catapult Into Literature - Have them look at the cover. Have a little class discussion on What do they thinkthis book is about based on the cover? What does the title mean? What do they infer about it? Who do they think the author's audience is? Then after the discussion let's read page 1-let's break it down a bit and review if our answers are the same after reading the first page. //Assessment:// Can they relate this to their experiences? Can they combine their previous experiences with our text to create useful pictures in their minds?

3. Making Inferences and Predictions Link to Inferences

4.Generating and Answering Questions Try using Jeapordy labs at [] First I will show them the website and create a category with answers and questions from the story we read. Next, this would work great having the students get into small groups. The groups would then come up with a subtopic with our literatrure selection being the topic. They would then generate 5 to 6 answers and questions to make add to the other groups to make an entire class game. //Assessment:// Can they generate thoughtful questions that the author wanted the reader to ask? Can they seek answers to their questions?

**These two I would use all year long. They would be present every day.** //Use All Year//

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