Lesson 1: Text 1: 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.7.5, RL.7.6, RL.7.7, RL.7.9, RL.7.10
RI.7.1, RI.7.2, RI.7.3, RI.7.4, RI.7.5, RI.7.6
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:
- Annabel Lee (Poetry)
- My Mother Pieced Quilts (Poetry)
- Museum Indians (Informational Text)
- The Walking Dance (Fiction)
- Second Estrangement (Poetry)
- No Dream Too High: Simone Biles (Informational Text)
- The Highwayman (Poetry)
- Flesh and Blood So Cheap: The Triangle Fire and Its Legacy (Informational Text)
- A Christmas Carol (Fiction)
- Tangerine (Fiction)
- My Mother Really Knew (Poetry)