Sophia Shim

10 March, 2016

Lesson Plan #2
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Miss. Sophia, 1st grade

Whole group Individual
March 11th, 2016
Summarizing & Synthesizing
Promote the strategy of summarizing and
synthesizing to have the students
comprehend.
Be able to form a summary and be able to
learn to synthesize from a text (book)
Be able to learn how to summarize and
synthesize accordingly
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie By Laura Joffe
Numeroff/Illustrated by Felicia Bond
-Paper & pencil (Summarizing)
-Synthesize worksheet (Synthesize)
-Synthesize Superhero (Synthesize)
After the reading, ask the students to draw a
picture of what happened after giving the
mouse a cookie
Ask them to complete the Synthesize
worksheet
Assess their summarizing skills by asking
them to draw out the main idea of the story
Ask the students to read the book aloud to
the teacher. (Running Records)
1. Before reading: Ask students if they have
ever seen a mouse in their lives.
2. Teacher will introduce the book to them by
reading out the title and the
author/illustrator.
3. Teacher asks one of the students what the
title of the book is?
4. Teacher talks and asks about the picture in
the cover of the book. (Ex: What is the
mouse in the cover holding? Is it a cookie?
Why would a mouse be holding a cookie?)
5. Tell the students that I will ask them about
who the main character is and what
happened in the book after reading.
6. During reading: Ask them in between the
book about what they think will happen next
7. Pause in between to ask them if they are
understanding the text
8. After reading: Hand out the Synthesize

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worksheet and explain to them what

synthesizing means. Explain how this
worksheet can help us both summarize and
synthesize what we have read today
9. Give them the superhero paper and tell them
to keep it.
10. Ask the students to reread the book and do
the Running Record for each student. (Since
there are 3, let them take turns to read)
11. Assessment: Running Records &
Synthesizing worksheet
Summarizing is what happened in the book.
Synthesizing is how it makes you feel, how it does
remind you of, how does it relate from