Teaching Reading Riffle 1

Teacher Education Lesson Plan Template

Teacher: Mr. Riffle Date: Oct. 31st

Co-Op: Mrs. Simmons

Title of Lesson: Cause and Effect and Grade: 5th

History

Core Components

Subject, Content Area, or Topic

Reading and Virginia Studies
Virginia Essential Knowledge and Skills (SOL)
VS.1 The student will demonstrate skills for historical thinking, geographical analysis, economic
decision making, and responsible citizenship by
f) determining relationships with multiple causes or effects in Virginia history;
VS.3 The student will demonstrate an understanding of the first permanent English settlement in
America
Reading 5.5 The student will read and demonstrate comprehension of fictional texts, narrative
*nonfiction, and poetry.
i) Draw conclusions and make inferences from text.
j) Identify cause and effect relationships.

Lesson objectives
Students will be able to read a text and will identify the cause and effects in it.
Students will be able to explain what are cause and effects
Students will be able to see why John Smith was an important part of the survival of the
Jamestown colony

Materials/Resources
Worksheet on John Smith
Document Camera
Smart Board
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Safety (if applicable)

Time
Process Components
(min.)
5-7 min *Anticipatory Set
Ask the questions: “What are issues?” “What do you remember from the
problems of the English settlement of Jamestown?”
1 min *State the Objectives (grade-level terms). The student should be able to
say:
I can identify cause and effects in text.
I can identify the different problems with the Jamestown settlement.
I can explain the cause and effect relationships found with John Smith and the
Jamestown settlement.

15 min *Instructional Input or Procedure

1. Have students gather on the rug to talk about cause and effects
2. On a document camera, write out cause and effects with information
3. Causes:
 What: The action
 Example: Earthquake
 Key Words: Before, As a result, Because, If
 Underline with red
4. Effects:
 What: The aftermath
 Example: Recovery efforts
 Key words: After, But, Yet, Then
 Underline with blue

10 min *Modeling
1. Read through the Colonizing of Virginia with class.
2. Underline the whole passage with class.
 Red is Causes
 Blue is effects
3. Popcorn read with students.
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3 min *Check for Understanding

Ask questions: “Are there any ones we might have missed?” “What other
causes and effects were not talked about in the paragraph, but you know
should be mentioned?”
3 min *Guided Practice
1. Using the Matching Questions below the passage, do the first 3 with the
students.
2 min *Independent Practice
1. Have students do 4 and 5 individually.
2. Check work as a class.
Completed Assessment (formal or informal)
as an exit
ticket 1. The back side has a few more matching spots that will be completed
2. The cause and effects sheets will be graded.
2 min *Closure
Review over what was learned.
Ask for an example of a cause and effect
*Much of this will be based on what Mrs. Simmons wants.
Differentiation Strategies (enrichment, accommodations, remediation, or by learning style).
Students will need to sit closer to the board if they need to.

Classroom Management Issues (optional)

Lesson Critique. To be completed following the lesson. Did your students meet the objective(s)? What
part of the lesson would you change? Why?

I believe my students did! This was largely a review for all of them. When looking at how I seated students upon
the lesson, I should have taken to account the students that could cause a problem, as 3 of the people that create
distractions, sat next to one another.

*Denotes Madeline Hunter lesson plan elements.

Intern Signature Cooperating Teacher Date

Signature
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Page 1 of the passage we read as a class

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Page two of the passage we read in class

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This is the page I used to review with the students about cause and effects, and also to set a
basis for what we should identify in the text.