Teacher: Miss.

Booth
Making Connections:
School: Northside Elementary School
Before-During-After
Grade Level: 4th grade
Lesson Plan
Date: 9/24-9/26
Text: The Wallet in the Woods
Goals/Objectives: What is sequencing? What strategies do good
readers use while reading?
Before-During-After Lesson Lenses of Learning
linked to the lesson

BEFORE: Meaning-based
- Ask students what sequencing is. Have them think about it and discuss as a
group a possible definition. Write a definition as a group.
Language-based
- Introduce the text by telling students that they will read a book that
contains 6 chapters. They will be thinking about sequence as they read the
book. Social
- Have students read the title and make educated guesses as to what the story
will be about. Human
- Open the front covers and have them read the focus question. Have students
make final guesses on what they think is going to happen.

DURING: Meaning-based
- Remind students that signal words give us a clue as to the order of the steps
or events.
Language-based
- Have students get out their journals and create a graphic organizer that can
contain unknown words and signal words.
- Have students read the chapters aloud. Social
- As the students read the story, stop to have students discuss what they
wrote down. Talk about the vocabulary they got tripped up with and see if Human
they can define the words as a group based on each other’s knowledge and
context clues.
- Have a different student summarize each chapter to the group to check for
understanding.
AFTER: Meaning-based
- After reading the story, ask students to answer the focus question. Discuss
this as a group.
Language-based
- Using the back cover, have students write answers to questions in their
response journals.
- Make sure to provide a printed copy of the organizer for students to glue into Social
their journals for question #2
- Discuss responses Human
- As a group, create a story map of the events in the book.
- Have pictures of the story on cards for students to utilize. Have them work
together to order the events on a story map.