Lesson 1
Lesson 1
Lesson 1
Materials
Hide and Seek by Susan Rose Simms (Lexile Level 40L)
Vocabulary Collector
Put the Events in Order (From the Emerge Teachers Guide)
Comprehension Quiz
Writing a Summary Graphic Organizer
Summary Rubric
Document camera and projector
sentences to show the order the events happen. Afterward students draw a picture
to make a prediction and illustrate what they think will happen next in the story.
Differentiation Guided reading groups allow the teacher to assess student needs
abilities, and address the individual need of each student.
Lesson Description (Writing Period)
Warm Up Read Aloud Hide and Seek by Susan Rose Simms. Explain that
finding a main idea after reading will help with text comprehension. The main
idea is one sentences that tells the topic of the text. Students work with a partner
to write one sentence that tells what the story is about. Pairs share their sentences
with the class. Choose one sentence to be the main idea sentence. Explain that
we will use the main idea sentences and add details about the most important
events in the story to write a summary paragraph about the text.
Modeling Review the steps of the writing process. Display the Writing a
Summary Graphic Organizer on the whiteboard using the document camera and
give students their own copies. As a class complete the graphic organizer, and use
the class created sentence as the main idea sentence. Explain that this is
prewriting for their summary.
Guided Practice Show students how to use the graphic organizer to help write a
rough draft summary paragraph. Give students time to write their own rough
drafts. During this time, move around the room and have individual writing
conferences to support students with writing, revising, and editing.
Independent Practice Using their corrected rough drafts, students should type
and publish their summary on Google Classroom.
Differentiation Individual writing conferences allow the teacher to address the
individual needs of each students and work with them to improve their writing
skills.
Assessment of Student Learning (Did students meet the learning objectives?) Students
are formatively assessed on their comprehension of the text using observations during
guided reading groups and summatively using a comprehension quiz. Students are also
formatively assessed on their writing during conferencing and summatively assessed on
their final copies of summary writing using a rubric.
Teacher Reflection (What went well? What Changes should I make?) Students did well
on their assessments, showing that they comprehended the text after several readings.
Students were able to identify the main idea of the story easily. Guided reading groups
were successful at encouraging discussion about the text among small groups of students,
and clarifying events and concepts. However, more work is needed for fluency and
pronunciation. More work is also needed for students to understand the writing process.