Grade: 3rd

Subject: Reading
Key Goals:
 I can define most of the vocab words.
 I can retell parts of “The Two Old Potatoes”.
Essential Question:
 What are the characters actions in the story?
Learning Objectives:
 Students will be able to recall knowledge of vocab words.
 Students will be able to retell parts of the story.
Technology Uses:
Minimal Technology Usage Technology Integration
-Display vocabulary words from Google Slides Materials Needed:
on board at the front of the room -Tablet or computer
-Students using book and orally listening to -Reading book
the story -Headphones
-Students are orally responding to questions Integration process:
-Students are orally defining vocabulary --Vocabulary review will occur through
words Blooket. Students will play a game on Blooket
to review all vocabulary words for the week
Story Reading:
--Story will be read aloud to students they
will be following along with a slideshow on
Nearpod. On Nearpod the teacher will go
present the questions as they occur while
reading the story. There will be questions
pertaining to the story. Some questions will
be a quiz question that students need to
respond to. Other will be a discussion. The
discussion questions students will be given 3
minutes to respond to on their device, then
we will talk about the answers to the
question.
--After the story has been fully read aloud to
the students, they will then go to
MyNGConnect (reading curriculum online
site) and complete the Comprehension Coach
assignment for the story. On this the story
will be read aloud to them and there are
various questions throughout the story they
will answer.
--The comprehension coach questions will be
taken as an evaluation grade.
Evaluation:
 Verbal responses to the questions asked throughout the story
 Comprehension coach questions
Lesson Plan Description:
1. Talk about vocab words around room
a. Ask what they mean
2. Students come to carpet
3. Introduce next set of vocab words
4. Students leave carpet as dismissed
a. They are to get a reading book before going back to their seat
b. Open to dictionary
5. After we finished going through previous and new vocab words student completed a
Fidget Spinner Vocabulary Organizer
a. Student were to pick one from the first set and one from the second set
b. Words were displayed on front white board
c. Go through what is needed in each circle
d. Students get 15 minutes to work
6. If students do not finish it goes in the Unfinished work folder
7. Students open to page 150
8. Listen and follow along to new story “Two Old Potatoes”
9. While listening and following along do Comprehension Coach
a. Preview and Predict
i. Locate genre and talk about it
1. After they find it have a student read it
2. Talk about the teacher blue part
ii. Locate characters and talk about them
1. Have a student tell you who they are
2. Talk about the teacher blue part
iii. Talk about Science Connection part in teacher manual
iv. Students predict what they think will happen based on title page image
v. Students flip through story (150-162)
1. Talk about what they think will happen and if their original
predictions hold true
vi. Pgs. 152-152
1. Why does the girl want to throw the potatoes in the trash?
2. Why do the girl and her father take the potatoes to the sunniest
part of the garden?
3. Comprehension coach question
vii. 154-155
 1. What happens in May?
2. What happens in June?
3. Push them to use sequence words
4. Do the girl and her dad enjoy working together?
a. What in the text told you?
5. Comprehension coach question
viii. 156-157
1. What happens after the girl picks potato beetles off of the
leaves?
2. Why does the girl think the plants are dead?
3. Sequence questions
a. What happened in July?
b. What does she do to help the plants?
c. Then, what does she notice in August?
d. What did the plants look like?
4. Inference
a. Does the book tell me how the girl feels about the potato
bugs?
b. How do you think she feels about them?
c. What from the text tells you?
d. Why do people call things gross?
5. Comprehension coach questions
ix. 158-159
1. How many new potatoes do you think the old potatoes will
produce?
2. What happened the first time Dad digs for potatoes?
3. What happens after that?
4. So, we know that the potatoes have been growing, so what will
probably happen next?
5. Comprehension coach question
x. 160-162
1. Is the girl surprised by the growth of the potatoes?
2. What is the last thing the characters do in the story?
3. Comprehension coach question