Lesson Plan

Teacher: Islam Nasr Grade: 5 Date: 10/12/2013

Period:
Subject: Reading Unit:3 Lesson: Being
CCSS RL.5.7-RL.5.10 - L.5.5a Resourceful
Learning objectives: Material and resources:
By the end of the lesson, students will be able to: - Reading & Writing Workshop
- Summarize text to increase understanding. Book
- Identify Personification. - Whiteboard.
- Graphic Organizers
- Determine a theme of a story
- You Turn Practice Book.
(Lead in) (3 min.)
Share with students the following characteristics of fairy tales.
- Fairy tales usually take place in made-up or magical settings.
- Fairy tales often begin with the phrase “Once upon a time.”
- Fairy tales often include royalty and other magical characters. For example, the
main character is often a prince or a princess.
- Fairy tales often present a problem and solution.
- Many fairy tales have illustrations that contribute to the story’s beauty and
mystery.

(Activities) New
Comprehension Strategy Vocabulary
 Select the comprehension mini-lesson.
 Use page 181 of “Survivaland” to model the summarize strategy.
Click through the mini-lesson or use the tools to model the
strategy.
 After modeling, go to the Your Turn section of the mini-lesson.
 Have students talk to a partner about the most important details
about the outcome of the story. Have students write down a
summary of the events.
 Then call a volunteer to the whiteboard to demonstrate how they
applied the strategy.
 Have students compare what they wrote to the volunteer’s
response.
 Or you can choose to assign the Your Turn for independent
practice or a computer center activity with a partner.

Have students work in pairs to identify the outcome of the fantasy

and summarize the events that led to it. Encourage students to
identify the specific dangers the friends encounter and how
knowledge of nature helps them escape each danger. Also guide
them to notice how Jackson changes his mind about the value of
knowing about nature.
Have each pair share their summary with another pair and discuss
any differences they have about which details are most important.

Comprehension Skill
Theme
 Select the comprehension skill mini-lesson.
 Use page 181 of “Survivaland” to model identifying details
about the characters and what happens to them to help identify
the theme. Click through the mini-lesson or use the tools to
model the skill.
 After modeling, go to the Your Turn section of the mini-lesson.
 Ask partners to reread “Survivaland” and record the most
important things that the characters say and do and what happens
to them. Then have them use this information to figure out the
story’s theme.
 Then call a volunteer to the whiteboard to demonstrate how they
applied the skill.
 Have students compare what they wrote to the volunteer’s
response.
 Or you can choose to assign the Your Turn for independent
practice or a computer center activity with a partner.

Your Turn: Answer

Possible things characters do and say are:
 Raul spotted onions growing nearby
 Raul knew that the onion’s bitterness would drive the giant
butterfly away
 Raul told his friends to rub the onion all over themselves
The theme is knowing about nature can be useful in many situations.
Have students work in pairs to complete their organizer by recording
important things that the characters say, do, and experience during
the rest of “Survivaland.” Encourage students to pay special attention
to how the friends survive each challenge and how Jackson changes
his mind, as these are clues to the theme. Discuss each section as
students complete the organizer.
Write About Reading: Summary Ask pairs to work together to
summarize “Survivaland,” using important details they identified
from the fantasy. Select pairs of students to share their summaries
with the class.
Evidence of learning Reflection
(assessment)  Having the students to summarize what
 Guided Practice they understood. (5 min)
 Independent Practice
through encouraging them to
work in groups.

Home Work