Lesson 3: Text 2: First Read
Duration of Days: 4
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?
RL/I.8.1, RL/I.8.4, RL/I.8.10; SL.8.1, SL.8.1.A, SL.8.1.D, SL.8.2, SL.8.4; L.8.4.A, L.8.4.D?, L.8.6
DOK 1 & 2
Text Chunking
Guiding Questions
Sentence Starters & Response Frames
Small Group Support
Graphic Organizers
Visual Glossary
Modeling
Think-a-Louds
Quiz questions, Open-Ended Response Questions, Discussion and Notes
Select From:
- The Tell-Tale Heart (Fiction)
- Monster (Fiction/Drama)
- Let ’Em Play God (Informational)
- Sympathy (Poetry)
- Ten Days in a Mad-House (Chapter IV) (Informational)
- The Lottery (Fiction)
- The Graveyard Book (Fiction)
- The Conjure-Man Dies: A Mystery Tale of Dark Harlem (Fiction)
- The Monkey’s Paw (Fiction)
- Phineas Gage: A Gruesome but True Story About Brain Science (Informational)