Calvin Book Club Leader: Yvonne Boeskool Grade: 4th Date: December 3, 2018

Subject area ELA. Main Focus: discussion with Mama, Carmella gets money, discussion
with Mookie
How to Steal a Dog, Chapters 18-19 (page 143-157)
In a ‘typical’ lesson plan (ELA) you should show about 3-4 common core standards in
progress.
● Common Core Standard: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.4.3
Describe in depth a character, setting, or event in a story or drama, drawing on
specific details in the text (e.g., a character's thoughts, words, or actions).
● Teaching and Learning Outcomes (Goals)
1
Refer to details about Georgina and things that have happened to Georgina
and stress that she is experiencing in last week’s chapters (14-17).
● Assessment:
Pressure map for Georgina
● Common Core Standard: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.4.4.B
Read grade-level prose and poetry orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and
expression on successive readings.
● Teaching and Learning Outcomes (Goals):
2 Students are able to read their given role in the Chapter 18 Reader’s Theatre,
as well as partner reading of Chapter 19, with fluency and expression.
● Assessment:
The students’ performance in the Chapter 18 Reader’s Theatre and partner
reading of Chapter 19.
● Common Core Standard: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.4.1
Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says
explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
3 ● Teaching and Learning Outcomes (Goals)
Refer to details in Chapter 18 and 19 about how Georgina is feeling.
● Assessment:
Discussion participation
Differentiation (UDL)
Content: Students are not just having to read the book, but participating in a
reader’s theatre that stresses expression and fluency as well as partner reading.
Process: Provide multiple ways to learn a vocab word (acting out, discussing past
experiences). Students are taking on an assigned role in the Reader’s Theatre that
is different than their peers and specifically chosen for each student by the
teacher, taking into consideration their reading fluency.
Outcomes: Their pressure map for Georgina, the performance of the Readers
Theatre, and adequate responses to questions over chapters 18-19.
Materials and other preparation
Folders, notebooks, How to Steal a Dog, pencils, markers/colored pencils, white
computer paper, vocab dog bones, tri-fold, tape, READER’S THEATRE COPIES
(Ready to Teach and the environment is considered)

TEACHER ACTIVITY STUDENT ACTIVITY

Motivating, Engaging. (Introduction)
1. Lead students in drawing a pressure 1. Make a pressure map
map for Georgina. Ask students to for Georgina in your
list all the pressures that are acting notebook.
on Georgina and draw them out as
an example for students.
Development (Process)
1. Teach vocab: 1. Write down the words
Stomachache (page 151) – discuss in your notebook.
using dog bone and tape on poster. a. Think about if
○ A pain in a person’s belly you’ve heard
○ Discuss situations in which the word
people may get before and
stomachaches – nerves! Bad share if you
feelings! know it.
Jabbering (page 154) – discuss using b. Write or draw
dog bone and tape on poster. something to
○ Talk rapidly and excitedly, help you
but with little sense remember the
○ Have students try jabbering definition of
about their day. the word in
2. Lead students through the Reader’s your
Theatre for Chapter 18. notebook.
3. Ask questions about Chapter 18. 2. Complete the Reader’s
○ Do you think G misses her Theatre for Chapter
friendship with Luanne? 18, using your assigned
Why or why not? role.
○ How do you think stealing a 3. Think about and
dog compares to the bad discuss main points of
things that G and Luanne Chapter 18.
used to admit to each other?
○ Now that Carmella has
money to offer, do you think
the plan will go smoothly?
Why or why not? 4. Read Chapter 19 with
your partner.
 4. Lead partner reading of Chapter 19.
Do co-ed partners –

Closure.
1. Ask questions about Chapter 19. 1. Think about and
a. Georgina keeps feeling her discuss main points of
stomach and throat aching – Chapter 19.
what do you think this is
telling her?
b. Do you think Mookie fixed
the car? Why or why not?
c. How much do you think
Mookie knows about what
Georgina is really doing?
(TURN IN YOUR REFLECTIONS ASAP!!)