Lesson Plan Format

NAME:
Lesson Topic: Fluency

Grade level: 4

Total Time: 30

# Students: small group

Learning Goal:
(Content
Standard/Common
Core)

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.4.2

Target Goal or Skill:

Identifying the main idea and details of the text

Essential Question(s):

How does an author express an idea?

Topical question(s):

How does recognizing and understanding the main idea and

supporting details help me comprehend what the author is trying to
say?
Students will be able identify the main idea of a text. They will be
able to identify key idea
Formative Assessment:

Instructional
Objective(s):
Assessment
(Criteria / Look Fors/
Performance Tasks)

Disabilities/Diverse
Needs Represented
Student
Accommodations and/or
Modifications

Instructional
Procedures
(including specific
times)
Introduction:

Determine the main idea of a text and explain how it is

supported by key details; summarize the text.

Graphic Organizer
Summative Assessment:

LZ-> SLD -> language processing difficulty -> pre-teaching of

concepts; additional time to process information when presented
orally. Student can answer orally and information is written down
to be transcribed.
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Introduction:
Review of KWL chart from previous day.
Introduce the Book:

(including motivational
hook where applicable)

Learning Activities:

Book walk: Have students preview the book by review

the front cover and the pages.
Introduce the comprehension task:

Main Idea Details worksheet

Closure:

Academic Language and

Student Language
Demands required in
the lesson
Communication Skills
(see Handout)
5 Questions (Blooms or
DOK)
Curriculum (APA)
e.g.
Investigations in
Number, Data, and
Space. (2012).
Pearson.

Materials

Notes