Lesson Plan Format

NAME:
Lesson Topic: Using context clues to better your understanding Grade level: 8
Total Time: 45 minutes # Students: whole class
Learning Goal:
(Content
Standard/Common
Core)
Target Goal or Skill:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.8.4.A

Instructional
Objective(s):
Assessment
(Criteria / Look Fors/
Performance Tasks)

Students will use context clue strategies to understand and comprehend their
reading
Formative: Teachers will observe students work independently and
conferences with small groups or individual students.

Disabilities/Diverse
Needs Represented
Student
Accommodations
and/or Modifications
Instructional
Procedures
(including specific
times)

To be determined.

Use context (e.g., the overall meaning of a sentence or paragraph; a

word's position or function in a sentence) as a clue to the meaning of a
word or phrase
Students will understand that using context clues will ensure better
comprehension
Essential Question(s): Why are strategies important?
What can a reader do when they dont understand
Topical question(s):
Can students use context clues to find the meaning of unknown words or
text?

Introduction:
(including
motivational hook
where applicable)

Learning Activities:

Summative: Assessments will be done during one on one conferences when

teacher asks students comprehension questions about the text they are reading

Guided release of responsibility.

Visuals and graphic organizers

Mini Lesson on context clues

Discuss what a context clues and model how it is used on a familiar
text
Allow students to follow along with you as read a familiar text and
come across a difficult word or concept
Students will go to their desks and begin to read text
Students will receive post- it notes to jot down unknown words as
they are reading
Students will partner up and discuss how to find what the unknown
word means by using strategies
Students discuss their thought processes in student lead class
discussion

Closure:
Academic Language

Transform, support, explain

Communication
Skills
(see Handout)

Function: Evaluate important context clues to ask as they are reading

Vocabulary: Who? What? When?
Syntax: Use post- it notes to mark places of confusion
Discourse: Through asking and answering questions as a group students and
teachers will discuss important strategies to use when readers get stuck
5 Questions (Blooms)
1. What is a context clue?
2. Can you compare and contrast context clue strategies?
3. How would you use context clues in an unfamiliar text?
4. What are the parts or features of context clues?
5. Can you invent a new strategy to help with unknown concepts using
context clues?
Curriculum (APA)
e.g.

To be determined

Investigations in
Number, Data, and
Space. (2012).
Pearson.

Materials
Notes

Paper, pencil, research materials, post it noes, Smartboard, text