Lesson 5: Text 3: First Read
Duration of Days: 2
Lesson Objective
After an initial reading and discussion of the short story, 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?
RL.7.1, RL.7.2, RL.7.3, RL.7.4, RL.7.5, RL.7.6, RL.7.7, RL.7.9, RL.7.10
RI.7.1, RI.7.2, RI.7.4, RI.7.6
W.7.1.A, W.7.1.B, W.7.3, W.7.4, W.7.5, W.7.6, W.7.7, W.7.9, W.7.10
DOK 1 & 2
Text Chunking
Guiding Questions
Sentence Starters & Response Frames
Small Group Support
Graphic Organizers
Visual Glossary
Modeling
Think-a-Louds
Quiz, Think Questions, Write Questions, Discussion
Select From:
- We Beat the Street (Informational)
- The First Americans (Argumentative)
- Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad (Informational)
- The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales (Fiction)
- All Together Now (Argumentative)
- Mother Jones: Fierce Fighter for Workers' Rights (Informational)
- Speech to the Young: Speech to the Progress-Toward (Poetry)
- Letter to President Theodore Roosevelt (Argumentative)
- Before We Were Free (Fiction)
- Machines, not people, should be exploring the stars for now (Argumentative)
- Responses to “Machines, not people, should be exploring the stars for now” (Argumentative)