EDC274 Mini-Lesson Plan Template

Name: Kathryn Parker Pima Course: EDC274 Instructor:

Dr. Eagleton
Subject: ELA Topic: Word Play Grade Level: 2nd Duration:
10 minutes
List of Materials, Handouts, Rubrics, and other Docs:
Laminated copy of the solving the unknown words chart (Linder p. 93), large sticky notes, literary journals, So What journals,
Amelia Bedelia Takes the Cake

Purpose (kid-friendly): This lesson will help me become a better reader (or writer) because/bygiving me a strategy to
define words I do not know the meaning of.

Components Description of Plan

Content Standard Determine the meaning of words and phrases in a text relevant to a grade 2 topic or
Choose ONE AZCCR standard and type subject area. (2.RI.4)
it out along with the number

Learning Objective Blooms Level: Applying

Choose ONE level of complexity
from Blooms Revised Taxonomy Objective: SWBATapply the looking ahead strategy to define unfamiliar words.
Write ONE objective that is ONE
simple sentence with ONE carefully
Kid-Friendly Version: I canfind the meaning of words by looking ahead.
chosen verb
1-2 Anticipatory Set Teacher will (TW): Students will (SW):
mins
A quick "hook" to grab the 1. TWuse quiet signal to gather 1. Echo read objective
2 student's attention students on the carpet. 2. Think-pair-share
min Activates prior knowledge of 2. TWwrite a sentence on the
ute the objective board that has a nonsense
Requires active participation word in it.
s
from ALL learners 3. TWask the students what
Students MUST engage with strategy they could use to find
the OBJECTIVE
the meaning of the nonsense
word.
4. TWthen have students think-
pair-share strategies they
could use.
5. TW..explain that they are going
to use the look ahead
strategy to define unfamiliar
words.
6. TWhave students echo read
the objective.
7. TWbring out Solving
Unknown Words anchor chart.
1-3 Teaching-Input/Modeling Teacher will: Students will:
mins
Provides information and 1. Point to and briefly explain the 1. Listen as the teacher models
1 vocabulary in multiple look ahead strategy. the looking ahead strategy.
modalities 2. Explain how looking ahead will 2. To check for understanding,
mi
Teacher models how to do help them determine the students will show Fist to Five
nut the Active Involvement meaning of unfamiliar words to indicate how well they
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words. understand the look ahead
3. Bring out a copy of Amelia strategy.
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Bedelia Takes the Cake

4. Read a page from the book
and think-aloud using the
looking ahead strategy. She
would read up to a point and
decide that she does not know
what a word means. She would
then look on the next page to
see if the word is defined.
5.
5-8 Teacher will: Students will:
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Active Involvement 1. Explain that students are going 1. Participate in the next round of
5
to do their next round of Daily Daily 5.
Describes highly engaging 5. At this point, only the Read 2. Use sticky notes to keep track
strategies by Myself task has been of how many times they used
Includes various checks for introduced. the look ahead strategy and if it
understanding 2. Explain that during this next was helpful to them. They must
round, they are to keep track also write down the unfamiliar
(on sticky notes) of how many words on the sticky note.
times they used the look ahead
and if it helped them
understand the unfamiliar
word. They must also write
down unfamiliar words on the
sticky notes.
1-2 Closure Students will:
mins
ALL students must engage in 1. SWwrite the unfamiliar words they have written on their sticky notes on
brief closure activity to a word list in their reading journal. They will then briefly describe the look
2 cement learning and ahead strategy in their So What? Journal.
optimize transfer. 2. SW engage with the objective bychorally reading it aloud with the
Students MUST re-engage teacher.
with OBJECTIVE
Connections Linder K-2 Chart sense, pages 92-93 has the Solving Unknown Words Anchor
Explain connections & include page Chart. This chart was created with second graders, but can be adapted for use by
numbers from Linders work, Daily 5, younger grades. I would use this chart for at least 2 months for student reference
Math Daily 3, writing samples, etc. during Read to Self and Read with Others time. Eventually, these strategies will
Please check assignment prompt for become second nature for them and they will no longer need the chart.
specifics.

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