edTPA Lesson Plan Template

Central Focus:
Subject:
Retelling fables through the SWBST lens
Reading
Essential Standard/Common Core Objective:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.3.2
Recount stories, including fables, folktales,
and myths from diverse cultures; determine Date submitted: Date taught:
the central message, lesson, or moral and
explain how it is conveyed through key
details in the text.

Daily Lesson Objective:

Students will be able to retell a fable by using the Somebody, Wanted, But, So, Then strategy.

21st Century Skills: Academic Language Demand (Language Function and

Vocabulary):
Critical thinking
Language Function: retell
Vocabulary:
● Fable, moral
Prior Knowledge:
Students should be familiar with the characteristics of what fables are.

Activity Description

To start this lesson, we will have the students tell about the characteristics of
what fables are.

1. Focus and Review What is a fable?

-Animals are the main characters.
-Animals talk and act like people- personification
-They are very short with simple characters and plot
-They teach a moral or lesson

2. Statement of Objective Students will be able to retell a fable by using the Somebody,
for Student Wanted, But, So, Then strategy.

I will read the first fable to the students. The Fox and the Stork
-Who is the main character?
3. Teacher Input
-What does he/she want?
-But what happens?
-So?
-Then?
 The teacher will model how to retell the story by using the SWBST strategy.
Somebody- The Fox
Wanted to eat dinner at Stork’s house
4. Guided Practice
But stork served food in a jar with a long skinny neck
So the fox couldn’t get the soup.
Then the fox was still hungry.
.

-Students will read the second fable. The Ant and the Grasshopper
5. Independent Practice The students will turn and talk and retell the story by using the SWBST
strategy with their partners. The students will be allowed to share what they
came up with their partners.

6. Assessment Methods of Formative assessments occurred by asking questions throughout the

all objectives/skills: lesson.

7. Closure During this time the students will discuss and review the SWBST strategy
and the morals of both stories.

8. Assessment Results of ●
all objectives/skills:

Targeted Students Modifications/Accommodations Student/Small Group

Modifications/Accommodations
English as a Second Language:
The teacher will give the student(s) a copy of the
Struggling readers:
vocabulary in english and the student(s) native language.
Student will be paired with a stronger reader for
Autism spectrum: Teacher will repeat instruction and will support.
check the student(s) understanding using short sentences
to ensure clarity of instruction.
Academically Gifted/Talented:

Materials/Technology:

- The Fox and Stork

- The Ant and the Grasshopper
- SWBAT powerpoint link (google slides)
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1hBTx5M_mqKzGMR3xZjDxtX_vgHM-
n1tVPu_ezXdoLuE/edit#slide=id.g1bae3fb7c1_0_0

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