USF Elementary Education Lesson Plan Template (S 2014) Name: _____Maria Evers_____

Grade Level Being Taught: Subject/Content: Authors Group Date of Lesson: February
2nd Purpose Size: 18 8th 2017

Lesson Content
What Standards (national
or state) relate to this
lesson? LAFS.K12.R.2.6-Assess how point of view or purpose shapes the content and style of a text.
(You should include ALL
applicable standards. Rarely LA.2.2.1.4-The student will identify an authors theme, and use details from the text to explain how the
do teachers use just one: author developed that theme.
theyd never get through
them all.)
LA.2.3.1.2-The student will prewrite by determining the purpose (e.g., to entertain, to inform, to
communicate) and the intended audience of a writing piece.

Objectives- What are you Students will know how to identify the authors purpose, weather it is to: entertain,
teaching? persuade or inform the reader.
(Student-centered: What will
students know and be able to Audience: The Student
do after this lesson? Include Behavior: Will work as a whole group first then work individually on their own passage
the ABCDs of objectives: then they will be engaged in class quiz-quiz-trade activity to ensure the mastery of the
action, behavior, condition, topic.
and degree of mastery, i.e., Condition: The students will be able to identify the authors purpose.
"C: Given a sentence written Degree of mastery: With mastery of 100 percent.
in the past or present tense,
A: the student B: will be able
USF Elementary Education Lesson Plan Template (S 2014) Name: _____Maria Evers_____
Grade Level Being Taught: Subject/Content: Authors Group Date of Lesson: February
2nd Purpose Size: 18 8th 2017

to re-write the sentence in

Evaluation Plan- How will I will have an activity called quiz-quiz-trade where the students will create three sticky
you know students have notes with examples of each part of authors purpose: inform persuade or entertain. They
mastered your objectives? will walk around the room for about five minutes quizzing their team mates on what they
learned. I will observe the activity and see who understood and who still needs more
Address the following: guidance. At the end of the lesson I will have an exist slip where the students explain the
What formative evidence purpose of authors purpose, like why is it important.
will you use to document
student learning during
this lesson?
What summative evidence
will you collect, either
during this lesson or in
upcoming lessons?

Lesson Implementation
Step-by-Step Plan Time Who is
(What exactly do you plan to responsibl 1- Come in from specials get situated have the students pull out
do in teaching this lesson? Be 1- e (Teacher their word of the week folder out. Have designated student
thorough. Act as if you needed 10:40- or pass out lightning fingers.
10:45
a substitute to carry out the 2- Students)? 2- Go over word of the week with lightening fingers quizzing the
lesson for you.) 10:45- students on their spelling. When done have them put their
11:00 notebooks away and get ready for reading.
Where applicable, be sure to 3- 3- Go over Authors Purpose Anchor chart talk about clues that
11:00-
address the following: 11:15
show you what the authors purpose is.
USF Elementary Education Lesson Plan Template (S 2014) Name: _____Maria Evers_____
Grade Level Being Taught: Subject/Content: Authors Group Date of Lesson: February
2nd Purpose Size: 18 8th 2017

How will materials be 4- 4- Students will play quiz-quiz-trade using MnMs , going around
11:15- the room quizzing their chosen partners with examples of
distributed? 11:30
How will students authors purpose and when the students get this right they
transition between give their partner the MnM and trade sticky notes if not they
activities? explain to their partner the right answer and then trade sticky
What will you as the notes.
teacher do? 5- Whole group passage modeling what to do
What will the students do? 6- Independent work, when students are done they will
What student data will be 5- complete their exit slip and go into silent reading the
collected during each
11:30- remainder of the time. As the teacher I will be pulling aside
11:40 guided reading groups starting with the green group.
phase? 6-
What are other adults in 11:40-
the room doing? How are 12:10
they supporting students
learning?
What model of co-teaching
are you using?
Meeting your students If applicable, how does this lesson connect to the interests and cultural
needs as people and as backgrounds of your students?
learners
Im having the students play the quiz-quiz-trade game with candy which will make it fun
and interesting for them. The articles they are reading are about the North America
which relates to what they are learning in Social Studies and another article is about bats
and most of the kids in my class like animals so they will hopefully like this as well.

Differentiationbased on As a whole group everyone is learning about authors purpose, but all the students are at
the needs of your students different levels of reading so the articles they are doing independently relates to their
how will you take reading level so they will all be challenged at their max, but not overwhelmed.
individual and group
learning differences into
account.

Relevant Psychological Kagans quiz-quiz-trade is part of an educational training program and its proven to be
Theories and research sufficient.
USF Elementary Education Lesson Plan Template (S 2014) Name: _____Maria Evers_____
Grade Level Being Taught: Subject/Content: Authors Group Date of Lesson: February
2nd Purpose Size: 18 8th 2017

taken in consideration
when planning this lesson