Winter+Literacy+Plan

 So now it is winter, we are a couple of months into school and are into a nice routine. It's time to shake things up a bit and start adding and tweaking some mini-lessons to up the literacy. I need to remember to teach to all the different learning styles. 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.
 * //Remember the fab 5- Reading, Writing, Speaking, Listening and Viewing.//**

**The 6 Compehension Habits** 1. Organizing Text Information by Sculpting the Main Idea and Summarizing Ouline-ish Thoughts-not super exciting, but gets the job done. Read one chapter out of our story. Show students 2 different types of outlines and break down the chapter into the 2 different outlines. Do this on the smartboard together as a class. Then have them get into small groups after we read the second chapter and create their own outline. //Assessment:// Can they organize the information herachically after the reading? Can they recall important details?

2. Connecting to Background Knowledge K-W-L - An oldie but a goodie. After reading one page of our story, stop. Have a small class discussion leading with these questions. What do we know? Was it confirmed? What is the source? What do we want know? What we learned? What we still need to learn? //Assessment:// Can they connect this to their life? Can they combine previous exerience with text descriptions?

3. Making Inferences and Predictions Character Report Card - From the story we read pick out a couple of characters to evaluate. Brainstorm possible traits. List characters names and give them grades on traits. //Assessment:// Can they recall important details? Can they recall the sequence of events?

4. Generating and Answering Questions Hot Seat- This is one of my favorite ideas. I'll have the student assume the role of one of a the characters from a story. Have other students come up with questions to ask to verify knowledge. After our reading we will divide into group 6 groups of 5. I will already have the groups determined to ensure they are equitable with any exceptionalities being taken into account. Each group will be assigned a charater in the book to "interview" They need to come up with questions they would ask that character. Each group will come up with questions whose answers can be found in our reading today. After your group has completed coming up with their questions, take turns being in the hot seat by having your group ask you a couple of the questions. Make sure everyone has a turn. I will be hopping between groups to ensure understanding. After each group has their questions completed and has taken turns being in the hot seat. We will start our Group hot seat as a class. They will take on the role of interviewee. Each person will need to answer at least one of the questions being asked by the interviewer group. The group assigned to come up with the questions for that interviewee will be asking the questions. Each of them needs to take a turn reading a question.
 * Class hotseat. ** I will call one of the groups up to the front of class and sit in our “hotseat” chairs.

//Assessment:// Can they come up with questiong that happened after reading the selection? Can they generate relevant implicit and explicit questions?

Use Year Long

Assessment Page

Back to Home Page