TEP Methods Instructional Activity Planning Template

Novice: Kayla Le

Date of Implementation: Wednesday, November 3rd, 2021

Grade Level(s): 4th

Instructional Activity: What do you Notice? What do you Notice? Reading Methods Activity

PRE-ASSESSMENT: What are students’ strengths and needs related to this Instructional Activity?
● Recently worked with this small group on a short-text informational reading on Earthquakes,
Volcanoes and Tsunamis by Elizabeth Austin
● Students’ related strengths include strong language skills, reading comprehension, and contextual
knowledge
○ Completed a KWL chart the day before regarding this book (got to the K & W sections and
read half of the book up to volcanoes, still working on tsunamis)

ORGANIZATION: What are the goals? What standards are you working on in this activity?
● Students can use given prompts and come up with their own in engaging in a collaborative
discussion regarding visual texts
● Stimulating complex language use
● Common Core Standards:
○ Speaking and Listening
■ SL.4.
○ Reading: Informational Text
■ RI.4.7

ENGAGEMENT: How will I/we get started (Opening Move)? What are the details of the plan?

• OPENING MOVE ⟶
Using IA Visual Text What do you notice.docx as a guide:
● Refresh students on the “What do you notice?” activity is (they have done it multiple times before)
● Quickly review the short story so that students have an idea of what the visual texts will relate to
(see slide 2)
● Introduce and encourage students to use academic prompts for conversation starters (see slide
4)

• PLAN ⟶
● Project first photo (earthquake)
● Allow students to think about and respond to these questions in open discussion:*
○ What do you notice?
○ What is going on in this picture?
○ What do you see that makes you say that?
○ What connections
can you make to
the text?
● Project photo 2 (volcanic eruption gif)
● Follow same procedure as above*
● Project photo 3 (landslide)
 TEP Methods Instructional Activity Planning Template
● Follow same procedure as above*

(See slides for photos) What do you Notice? Reading Methods Activity

ASSESSMENT: How will I/we make sense of what students are learning? What can I/we watch for? How
could you use multiple measures of representing, expressing, and engaging students to demonstrate their
knowledge?

● Notice students’ use of prompts and how they analyze each photo
● See if students make connections to the reading from yesterday and the KWL chart
● Acknowledge students’ participation and gauge if students are responding individually or
responding and building off each other’s observations