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Grade Level / Content Area Teacher Candidate Name Date of Lesson
3rd Grade Reading Raquel Ryan 3/15/17
Lesson # Strategy Name (Danielson 1e.) Teaching Technique (Danielson 1e.)
5 Questioning Question Logs: 3Rs
Common Core Standard/s for English Language Arts (Danielson 1a. and 1c.)
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.3.1
Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the
answers.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.3.6
Distinguish their own point of view from that of the author of a text.
Interaction
Purpose: Engaging students in the lesson activities.
1) The student and I will look at the second article and this time, I will ask her, “By looking at the title, illustrations,
and headings, what questions can you think of or what statements do you want to write about this topic?”.
2) After she has placed her stickers and written her questions and statements in the record column, we will take
turns reading the article.
3) While we are reading the article, paragraph by paragraph, I will ask The student, “Did any other questions or
thoughts come to mind?”. If her answer is yes, then I will tell her to use a sticker and write it down in the reactions
column. Then I will ask why she wrote what she did. If her answer is no, we will continue reading.
4) After reading the article together, I will instruct the student to look at the third column and say, “Do you remember
what we do with our reflection column?” If she knows, then I will allow her to decide what questions she is able to
answer by highlighting them and highlighting the answer in the article. If she doesn’t know, I will remind her.
5) After she has answered and commented on all of her questions and statements, then she will circle the questions
she does not know the answer.
6) If the student is struggling to come up with questions or comments, refer to the practice activity in the
Accommodations Section #1.
7) If the student is grasping the topic quicker than expected, refer to the Accommodations Section #4.
Closure
Purpose: The end of the lesson and a summative assessment to determine if the student has successfully
learned the concept/s.
1) Now, we will look to the Lemur book for the student to complete the assessment portion of the lesson.
2) We will be using a selection from the book for her to read silently.
3) Summative Assessment: The student will be able to accurately fill in all three columns of the Reading Log
independently or with minimal assistance. She will also verbally answer the questions, “Why do we ask questions
while we read?” and “How does making your own questions help you understand the text?”. She should be able
to answer these with statements close to the following, “We ask questions while we read to help us understand
what we read. And, by making our own questions, it helps us remember what we are reading about and learn new
things”. Her answers and completion of the activity will give me a strong indication as to how well she has
understood and applied the skill of questioning.
Accommodations for Differentiated Instruction (Danielson 3e.)
1) If the student has never created her own questions nor understands why we ask questions while we read,
then I will provide the correct answer to the latter statement. For example, if she does not know why we ask
questions then I can say, “It’s OK you don’t know the answer, the reason we ask questions when we read is
so that we can understand what we are reading about. If we don’t ask questions then we aren’t really learning
more”. Next, I will address her confusion about creating her own questions by doing a practice activity. This
will entail modeling how to ask questions by looking at the title, illustrations, and headings to identify what the
topic is and what I want to know about it.
2) If the student does not know why we ask questions while we read but she has created questions before, then
I will simply give her the correct answer and move on. Later on in the lesson, I will ask her the question again
to see if she remembers and understands.
3) If the student and I are unable to answer the questions that were posed, then we will circle them and see if we
can answer them at a later time using Google.
4) If the student is grasping the topic quicker than expected, then I will release responsibility of the activity to her
much sooner by allowing her to read the texts silently and fill out the charts on her own.
Disney’s “Zootopia” wins Academy Award for best animated movie. (2017, March 1). Agence France-Presse. Retrieved
from: https://newsela.com/articles/zootopia-oscars/id/27491/ (500L)
Scientists have discovered that bees are surprisingly smart insects. (2017, March 9). PBS NewsHour. Retrieved from:
https://newsela.com/articles/bees-intelligence/id/27459/ (540L)