Lesson 16: Text 8: First Read
Duration of Days: 3
Lesson Objective
After an initial reading and discussion of the text, students will be able to implement a reading comprehension strategy, use context clues to define new vocabulary, and demonstrate comprehension by responding to questions using textual evidence.
What do you wonder? What do you notice? What can you: Predict? Clarify? Connect to? Visualize? What is the gist?
RI.9-10.1, RI.9-10.2, RI.9-10.4, RI.9-10.5, RI.9-10.6, RI.9-10.10, SL.9-10.1, SL.9-10.1.A, SL.9-10.1.B, SL.9-10.1.D, SL.9-10.2, SL.9-10.4, L.9-10.4.A, L.9-10.4.B, L.9-10.4.C, L.9-10.4.D, L.9-10.6, W.9-10.5, W.9-10.6
DOK 1, 2, 3
Text Chunking
Guiding Questions
Sentence Starters & Response Frames
Small Group Support
Graphic Organizers
Visual Glossary
Modeling
Think-a-Louds
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Quiz questions, Open-Ended Response Questions, Discussion and Notes
Select one from the following:
- Letter to My Younger Self (Informational)
- Letters to a Young Poet (Argumentative)
- Maus (Non-fiction)
- The Scarlet Ibis (Fiction)
- To Kill a Mockingbird (Fiction)
- The Girl Who Can (Fiction)
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Informational)
- Advice to Little Girls (Fiction)
- Lumberjanes (Fiction)
- Pride and Perseverance (Informational)
- Ode to the Selfie (Poetry)
- Lift Every Voice and Sing (Poetry)