Time

8:10- 8:25

8:25-8:40

8:40-8:50

8:50-9:35

Two-Day Instructional Plan In Literacy

Monday
Activity
Teacher Role
Student Role
Interactive
Teacher will
Students will
Read-Aloud
read a chapter be listening to
from Out Of
the text,
Reading Unit:
My Mind by
answering
Social Issues
Sharon Draper. questions,
Teacher will
making
model
connections,
inferencing
making
skills,
predictions,
monitoring
and discussing
comprehensio social issues.
n skills, and
pointing out
social issues.
Interactive
Teacher will
Students will
vocabulary
work with
be given the
groups of
choice of what
students on
interactive
vocabulary
vocabulary
work.
activity they
will complete
as a group.
Comprehensio Teacher will
Students will
n Mini-Lesson
directly teach
be engaged in
comprehensio classroom
n strategies by activities by
utilizing a
observing
mentor text
teacher
and a release
modeling and
of
by
responsibility
participating in
model.
classroom
discussion.
Independent
Teacher will
Students will
Reading
confer with
read and
individual
respond to
students
just right
offering
texts they
specific
have selected.

support.
Literature
Study

Teacher will
circulate
classroom to
ensure
students are
having
productive
conversations
and asking
guiding
questions.
Teacher will
ask students
to share with
the class how
they used
comprehensio
n strategies
during
independent
reading and/or
literature
study.

9:35-9:40

Group Share

9:40-9:50

Effective Leads Teacher will

Mini-lesson
model
effective use
of paragraphs
in writing.

9:50-10:40

Independent
Writing

Teacher will
confer with
individual
students on
their
narratives,
giving specific
feedback.

Small group of
students will
discuss the
literary a
shared text.

Students will
participate in
classroom
discussion.
Students
called upon
will share how
they used
comprehensio
n strategies to
monitor their
own
understanding
s of texts.
Students will
engage in
classroom
discussion
about effective
paragraph
usage.
Students will
work to use
paragraphs
appropriately
in their
narratives.
Students will

continue
writing their
narratives.

Time
8:10- 8:25

8:25-8:40

8:40-8:50

Tuesday
Activity
Teacher Role
Interactive
Teacher will
Read-Aloud
read a chapter
from Out Of
Reading Unit:
My Mind by
Social Issues
Sharon Draper.
Teacher will
model
inferencing
skills,
monitoring
comprehensio
n skills, and
pointing out
social issues.
Word Work
Teacher will
confer with
individual
students about
word work. If
teacher
establishes
common errors
in several
students work
she will bring
these students
to the rug for
extended help.
Inferencing
Teacher will
Mini-Lesson
directly teach
inferencing
skills by
utilizing a
mentor text

Student Role
Students will
be listening to
the text,
answering
questions,
making
connections,
making
predictions,
and discussing
social issues.

Students will
be given the
choice of what
word work
activity they
are to
complete,
utilizing the
word list at
their level.

Students will
be engaged in
classroom
activities by
observing
teacher

and a release
of
responsibility
model.
8:50-9:35

Independent
Reading

Guided
Reading

9:35-9:40

Group Share

modeling and
by
participating in
classroom
discussion.
Teacher will
Students will
conference
read and
with individual respond to
students about just right
their
texts they
independent
have selected.
reading,
guiding
students to
learn skill that
will help them
develop their
skills as
readers.
Small group of
students will
Teacher will
discuss a
work with a
teachersmall group of chosen text to
students to
learn
explicitly teach processing
reading
strategies.
processing
skills.
Teacher will
Students will
ask students
participate in
to share with
classroom
the class how
discussion.
they used
Students
inferencing
called upon
skills in their
will share how
reading.
they used text
evidence and
background
knowledge to
create
inferences in
their reading.

9:40-9:50

Effective Leads Teacher will

Mini-lesson
introduce
various
effective lead
strategies to
students.

9:50-10:05

Independent
Writing

Teacher will
confer with
individual
students on
their
narratives,
giving
supportive
feedback.

10:05-10:40

Investigations

Teacher will
guide student
collaborative
groups to aid
in research
process.
Teacher will
guide students
to learn social
studies and
writing
content.

Unit:
Colonization of
the New World

Students will
engage in
classroom
discussion
about effective
lead
strategies.
Students will
work to
develop an
effective lead
for their
personal
narrative using
the lead
strategies
introduced in
the minilesson.
Students will
work in groups
to complete
research
projects that
incorporate
Social Studies
content and
effective
communicatio
n.