Ted Villanyi Project Title: Lesson Plan Lesson Title: Context Clues Curriculum Area (s): Reading comprehension

Grade Level: 3-4 Estimated Time Required: 15 minutes Instructional Groupings: Groups of 7 or 8 Standards: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.3.1.B Provide reasons that support the opinion. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.3.1.C Use linking words and phrases (e.g., because, therefore, since, for example) to connect opinion and reasons. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.3.1.D Provide a concluding statement or section. Materials: Each student will need paper and a pencil. The instructor will use the book The Mysteries of Harris Burdick and a timer. Overview: Students will create stories that have been added to by each of their peers. After creating the shared stories students will have the opportunity to share them. Then students will be introduced to The Mysteries of Harris Burdick where they will use context clues to interpret each of the elaborate images to come up with titles or captions for them. What will I differentiate? I will differentiate the group set up that the students are assigned. This will be done to make the lesson more comfortable and effective for students with different learning styles and students with special needs. Why will I differentiate? I will differentiate in order to help benefit students that have different styles of learning and different comfort ability levels in their work and in their social surroundings. How will I differentiate? In order to differentiate I will allow students to work in bigger groups if they are more intrapersonal learners. I will repeat instructions for auditory learners and make a visual explanation for students to refer to. Also I could go online and find a program or app of a similar nature for those students who would like to use technology or are interpersonal and would like to work alone.

As a result of this lesson/unit students will Understand The basic idea of how stories are built and interpreted. Know Context clues and how to use them. Do (Skills) Story writing and understanding PreAssessment Prior to this lesson it is important to assess that the students already have a basic understanding of writing stories and utilizing context clues. What is the emotional hook? The students get to actively participate and contribute to numerous stories composed by many of their peers. They also get to put their own personal touch in each story. Students are exposed to the interesting and complex images from Chris Van Allsburg. Steps in the Lesson: Students will get into their groups with pen and paper at the ready. The teacher will set a timer for 1 minute. During this time each student will start to write a story about whatever topic they desire. After the minute is up and their story is just getting started they will pass their paper to the person next to them in a clockwise fashion. The student will have a chance to read the beginning of the story and then the timer will start again and the student will add on to the story. This process will repeat several times until the last round when the students are instructed to end the story. Then the student will have the opportunity to share their stories created by their peers. After this activity the teacher will show them The Mysteries of Harris Burdick. The instructor will only show each illustration and not the title and caption that come with them. Then the students will collaborate with each other and come up with a title or caption for each image and compare them to the books.

Closure Activity/Wrap up: Afterwards the instructor should have a debriefing where students can share their thoughts and experiences from the activity. PostAssessment: The teacher should closely monitor the activity and the whole process. It is important to keep track of the stories the students are all coming up with to make sure that they understand the concept. If the students were excited and engaged then this is a lesson that can be used again with even more advanced questions in the future. Additional Resources: Peer feedback