Chapter 8 City of Ember Struggling Reader Guided Reading

A. B. Background Information Literacy 5th grade Individual 15 minutes Guided Reading/ Context Clues Goals and Rationale To have the student connect and understand the importance of context clues to identify the conflict and possibly a resolution in Ch. 8. Knowing and using the context clues will help the student find and identify the importance of any text.

C. Teacher Objectives/ Standards and Benchmarks To have the student use context clues to be find out the conflict in the story. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.5.4 Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text,
including figurative language such as metaphors and similes.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.5.6 Describe how a narrators or speakers point of view influences how events are described. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.5.5 Explain how a series of chapters, scenes, or stanzas fits together to provide the overall structure of a particular story, drama, or poem.

Teacher Preparation D. List of my questions to be asked during guided reading. Assessment Plans Comprehension Questions. I will be able to assess the students use of context clues by the way he responds to my questions during guided reading.

E. Direct Instruction 1. Review a. What are context clues? b. How do we use them during the text?

2. Guided Reading a. Ask questions from list b. Assess students response 3. Comprehension Questions a. Connect my questions to comprehension questions b. Use the questions to assess the students learning.