Ms.

Delatorres Third Grade Class

Lesson Plan Title: Finally! Chapter One of Third Grade Angels by Jerry Spinelli

Concept: Reading to Comprehend

Technology Used: Smartboard to aide in lesson and class discussion.

General Goals:

1. Students will practice reading with the goal of retention.

2. Students will return to text to answer questions.

3. Students will actively participate in the class discussion.

4. Students will be able to summarize material read and make a prediction about the events of the

next chapter.

Specific Objectives: Students will read chapter one of our current novel, Third Grade Angels,

and be able to respond to questions with evidence from the text. Students will also be able to

summarize text and make predictions about what is to come.

Required Materials:

Third Grade Angels (book)

Pencil

Worksheet

Anticipatory Set: As a class, we will go over the goals for the days lesson. Then after

discussion, the students will silently read chapter one before continuing the lesson.

Step-By-Step Procedures:

1. Students will participate in a quick class discussion of the lessons goal posted on the smart

board.
2. Then students will silently read chapter one with a goal of comprehension.

3. Once everyone has read the chapter we will have a class discussion about the details of the

chapter. This part of the power point will cover the four vocabulary words of the chapter, the five

WH questions including setting, main characters, and what the chapter was about. For this part of

the lesson we will be using the power point on the smart board to engage in a class discussion.

Students will be evaluated on retention of the materials read and class participation.

4. We will then go over the worksheet and its requirements, focusing specifically on the

assessment part of the worksheet, questions 6-9 that there will be a specific rubric for. This

screen will remain on the screen while students complete the worksheet to remind them of the

requirements.

5. When students are finished they will turn the worksheet in and either read quietly or work on

unfinished assignments until the rest of the class is done.

6. Once everyone is done with the worksheet, we will have a discussion about the chapter,

answer any questions, and go over some of the students predictions for the next chapter before

moving on to another subject.

Plan for Independent Practice: Students will independently complete a worksheet. The first

question on the worksheet will ask the students to summarize the chapter weve just read.

Questions two through five will be matching the vocabulary to the definition. The next section of

the worksheet, questions six through nine, will ask students to answer the comprehension

questions with details from the text. The final section of the worksheet will have students make a

prediction for the next chapter. As the students work, I will be walking around monitoring

progress and answering any questions that the students might have. The slide outlining the
requirements for the worksheet will remain on the smart board while the students work on the

assignment.

Modification for Student(s) with Special Needs: I have a student with Autism in my class who

has a difficult time on writing assignments because of his developmental delays. For him, I will

require one to two sentences for the summarization and prediction responses. He will have no

modification for the vocabulary. I will also modify the assessment questions for this student,

instead of three sentences, I will take one sentence with the page number he found his answer on.

He has been practicing this in the resource classroom and I have seen him exceed with this

method. I have another student who is has dyslexia and needs the questions to be read to him.

For this assignment, he will sit at the back table that way I can read the questions aloud to him

without disrupting his peers. This will be his only modification. I also have a student with who

forgot their glasses today, so I will seat this student in the front of the classroom so that she can

see the board and the requirements for the assessment questions.

Closure: To close the lesson, we will finish our class discussion about the worksheet and

predictions for the next chapter. I will have a few students share their predictions and I will

answer any questions the students might have had about the lesson.

Assessment Based on Objectives: The assessment will be on Comprehension Questions 6-9 on

Worksheet 1. These questions will ask students to refer back to the text to find the answer and

include those answers in their response.

Possible Connections to Other Subjects: This lesson connects to writing through the chapter

summary and prediction, both require a paragraph response and students should be working on

using proper grammar and punctuation throughout the assignment. The comprehension questions

will also ask students to write three full sentences for each response.