Lesson Plan

Amanda Iadeluca Subject: English Class: Grade 6 ELA - Informative Writing

WILF (What do you want students to know, understand, and be able to do?)

To know: The structure of an informative text

To understand: How to find information and summarize it in a text

To be able to: Write an informative, five-paragraph text

3.3.3. Structures and features of an informational text

 Writes research reports to build knowledge by investigating different
GVC connections aspects of a topic
 Records data by summarizing information in notes through skimming
and scanning
 Create a concluding statement related to the information
Learning Activities Differentiation AFL Strategies Time
Phase
Bell Work & Attendance 5 min

Connect Mini-lesson: Using the Thumbs up/ 10 min

Smart Board, I will Thumbs down
demonstrate to the
students how to develop
their informative texts
from what they have been
practicing so far with five
sentences, to a five-
paragraph informative text
with a minimum of eight
sentences.

Activate Students will be given two Group Work Class review 10 min
examples of informative
texts that have been cut
up into individual
sentences. As a group,
they will organize them
into the five-paragraph
structure show in the mini-
lesson. We will review
each text on the board as
a class.

Demonstrate Students will use their Support: All 20 min

iPads to go on the Nat
Geo Kids website. They
will select an animal to
write an informative text
on.
students will have
access to the
informative text
graphic organizer,
which they can
use if needed.
Consolidate When they complete their Challenge: Self-assessment 5 min
texts, students will use the Students who are using an editing
editing checklist to verify confident in their checklist
their work. They can then writing can add
read their texts to the more than two
class. sentences to their
supporting details
paragraphs.
Resources SmartBoard with mini-lesson, bell work, writing books, iPads, exemplar
texts, editing checklist, graphic organizer
Evaluation / Notes