Lesson 3: Text 2: First Read
Duration of Days: 3
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 a different text than before from the list below:
- Rikki-Tikki-Tavi (Fiction)
- The Wise Old Woman (Fiction)
- Woodsong (Informational Text)
- Nimona (Fiction)
- Stargirl (Fiction)
- Seventh Grade (Fiction)
- The Monsters are Due on Maple Street (Drama)
- The Skin I’m In (Fiction)
- Mad (Poetry)
- In the Year 1974 (Informational Text)
- Thank You, M’am (Fiction)