Direct Instruction Lesson Plan Template

Grade Level/Subject: 2nd grade

Central Focus: Students will answer questions about key
Reading
details in informational text. (Who, What, When, Where,
Why, How)
Essential Standard/Common Core Objective:
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.2.1 Ask and answer such questions as
Date submitted:
Date
who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate
taught:
understanding of key details in a text
Daily Lesson Objective: Students will be able to ask and answers questions about informational
text. They will also answer who, what, when, where, why, and how questions to understand the
details of the text.
21st Century Skills:
Academic Language Demand (Language Function and
Vocabulary):
Connections- students will make connections with the
details in the informational text
Question- students will ask questions about the text.
Prior Knowledge: The students in my class have gone over who, what, when, where, why, and
how. They should know what each of these categories mean. They should know what details are.
Activity

1. Focus and Review

2. Statement of
Objective
for Student

3. Teacher Input

4. Guided Practice

Description of Activities and Setting

We will discuss what they previously talked about earlier in
the week about main idea. Earlier in the week we discussed
the topic of main idea and details. Can anyone tell me what
main idea is? I will wait for the students responses. The
main idea is the most important detail of a story or paragraph.
The best way to find the main idea is to find important details
in the text by asking yourself questions. A couple great
questions to ask yourself while reading it who, what, when,
where, why, and how.
We are going to ask our self who, what, when, where, why,
and how questions to understand a couple key details in our
informational text.
I will demonstrate how to use these skills by reading a page
from a informational text to the class. Class I will read a
couple pages out of this book call Meerkats. The page that I
will read out of the text talks about the weight of a meerkat.
Now that I read that I will ask myself a couple questions to
understand these details that I read. Who was this paragraph
talking about? Let me look back in the paragraph and see if I
can find who. The first sentence says Meerkats are small
animals. This is about Meerkats. You have to look back in your
text to answer questions about details in your text.
Students will then work with a partner to ask and answer
questions about one text. Now that you have seen how to

Time

5. Independent
Practice

6. Assessment
Methods of
all
objectives/skills:

7. Closure

ask and answer questions in you informational text I want you

to work with a partner to ask and answer questions. You will
read two pages out of one book with a partner. You have to try
and answer who, what, when, where, why, or how questions
from the page and tell your partner one important detail from
that page Students will have 10-15 mins to read two pages
with their partner and discuss. The teacher will go around to
each table and listen to the responses that they have.
Now that you have worked with your partner I want to see if
you can do this task on your own. You will read your
independent informational text and ask yourself the questions
that we went over in class. You will take out one piece of
paper and write down two important details from the text. If
you need guidance use your who, what, when, where, why,
and how questions. The students will write important details
from the text.
Students will write two details from their informational text. They will use
the who, what, when, where, why, and how questions for guidance.

After I have collect the papers. Would anyone like to share

one question and detail they found in their book? I will give
some students the chance to answer. Now that we have
talked about how to ask yourself questions about details how
will we ask ourselves questions? If you are having a hard
time thinking of questions to ask yourself start with your who,
what, when, where, why questions.

8. Assessment
Results of
all
objectives/skills:
Targeted Students
Modifications/Accommodations:

Student/Small Group
Modifications/Accommodations:

Materials/Technology:
(Include any instructional materials (e.g., worksheets, assessments PowerPoint/Smart Board slides, etc.) needed to implement the lesson at
the end of the lesson plan.)

The Meerkats book by. Concrad J. Storad.

References: My CT teacher
Reflection on lesson: