Learning Goal(s)

(Content
Standard)
Instructional
Objectives

Assessment
(Criteria/Look
Fors)

RL.4.2: Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem, from

details in the text.

The main objective is to be able to find facts and opinions in the

book and use the facts and opinions in the story to come up with
what the theme of the book is.

I will look for how well they did on the little quiz I found for the
smart board and I will also assess them on how well they find the
facts and opinions in the story and if the students are able to come
up with a theme or not.

Materials

The book: The Magic of Movies by Joanne Mattern, a piece of

paper, a computer to play the smart board activity you could use
this on a smart board but I am not going to because I have a small
group.

Time
(Total & Specific)

The lesson will be 30 minutes total. 5 minutes will be my opening,

what we will be doing and discussing what fact and an opinion are.
For the next 10 minutes the students will take a little quiz together
on my laptop on facts and opinions. The last 20 minutes will be
used on going over facts and opinions in the book they have read
and using those facts and opinions to find a theme on the story
and for my closing.

Instruction
Procedures
Introduction
Demonstratio
n
Participation
Practice

Introduction: I will ask them if they know what a fact and opinion. I
will ask them to explain what a fact and opinion are to me and
give me an example.
For a demonstration, I will do the first problem on the smart board
activity and then I will let the students do the rest of the problems
on the smart board activity.
For participation, the students will work on the smart board
activity together as a group and take turns clicking the right
answer. Doing this activity before we go over fact and opinion in
the book lets me know if I need to work on facts and opinion some
more or if we can go on to the book.
For practice, we will go over facts and opinions in the book they
read and we will take those facts and opinions and come up with a
theme.

Questions
What are facts and what are opinions? Can you tell which one is
which in the story you read? Can you find a theme from the facts
and opinions you found?
Academic
Language Focus

Facts, opinions, themes

Closure
I will ask them again what a fact is, what an opinion is and what a
theme is.
Student
Accommodations

I had the students do the smart board activity to see if they

understood fact and opinion before we looked at them in the book.
If they did not do well on the activity, I would have come up with
some more examples and explained the examples to them so that
they would get a better understanding before we move on to the
book.

Self-Reflection
I will need to watch to see if my lesson is too easy or too hard and
if my lesson is too long or too short.

LONG FORM LESSON PLAN TEMPLATE

Name:
Content Area(s)

Sara Bucholtz
Reading: Literature

Date: 11-7-13
Grade(s): 4th