If you are familiar with this blog, you know I like to structure
my close reading lesson plans over a four - day period.
I believe the best
close reading lessons plans use a scaffolded approach to instruction:
This close reading lesson plan provides a printable informational text that focuses on the historic origins of the holiday and compares Halloween traditions then and now.
Not exact matches
Contents: 3 pages teaching notes for the Word Detective bundle Word Detectives packet: 5
lesson plans with engaging
readings, worksheets for vocabulary and
reading comprehension skills including inferences,
close reading, word analysis, and and context clues, with related games and quizzes — about 1 week.
The texts themselves were chosen by the leadership of my charter school network, Uncommon Schools, with guidance from both the Common Core text - selection criteria and the network's own curricular team The
lesson plan sequence, questioning, activities,
close reading passages, schema, and focuses were up to me and my co-teacher.
This detailed and high quality unit includes: * 33
lesson plans (with 13 differentiation strategies) * 147 slide PowerPoint presentation (divided into
lessons) * All resources and worksheets (9 sheets) * Homework project (9 tasks) that includes both
reading and writing skills Unit's
lessons include: * Cloze activity on the play's contexts * Detailed, thorough comprehension questions on each scene * Spelling tests on key vocabulary * SPaG starter activities * Character crosswords * Huge 60 - question revision quiz * In - depth key scene analyses (including group work) * Exploring characters - Helen, Jo, Peter, Boy, Geof * Exploring themes - marriage, motherhood, relationships * AfL activities - improving sample exam responses * Essay
planning * Writing a formal essay on a chosen character * Writing a formal essay on a chosen theme * «
Closed book» mock exam to reflect new GCSE exam expectations * Teacher / peer / self assessment opportunities
The robust AP Teacher Manual is tightly integrated with the Student Edition and offers
lesson plans and strategies for teaching
close reading and writing skills.
Research based and with practical
lesson plans, the book takes the angst out of
close reading.
Teachers will be able to experience the
close reading rituals with a variety of text, adjust existing
lesson plans to embed and implement the
close reading strategies, promote
close reading strategies and rituals, embed interventions, and receive quality feedback through peer to peer teaching and coaching of the
close reading strategies.