Lesson 3: Text 2: First Read
Duration of Days: 4
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.7.6, RL.7.9, RL.7.10
RI.7.1, RI.7.2, RI.7.3, RI.7.4, RI.7.5, RI.7.6, RI.7.7
W.7.1, W.7.2, W.7.4, W.7.5, W.7.6. W.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:
- Casey at the Bat (Poetry)
- Hitting big league fastball ‘clearly impossible’ (Informational)
- The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (Informational)
- An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 (Informational)
- Fever 1793 (Fiction)
- Harrison Bergeron (Fiction)
- The Last Human Light (from What If?) (Informational)
- The Power of Student Peer Leaders (Informational)
- The Three Questions (Fiction)
- The Tequila Worm (Fiction)
- Barrio Boy (Informational)