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Instructors name: Kathy Rappaport Week of: Oct 21-25 Course/Grade: ELD 3 Unit Name: Comprehending and analyzing fiction and nonfiction texts

Common Core/ NM Content Standards: Reading Standards for Literature Grades 9-10: Craft and Structure determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text including figurative language. Reading standards for Informational Texts: Key Ideas and Details - determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text. identify what the text says explicitly as well as implicitly, determine central ideas and supporting details.

Essential Question(s): What are strategies for Comprehending and analyzing fiction and nonfiction texts.

Connections (prior learning/prior knowledge): Continuing with strategies used in the prior week.

Other considerations (modifications, accommodations, acceleration, etc.):

Resources/Materials Kite Runner & Time Magazine

Teacher: Students: Assessment (How will you monitor progress and know students have successfully met outcomes?) Daily: Do Now checks for understanding of the previous days lesson. Written assignments and quizzes check for understanding of daily lessons. This Week: Answering questions about the Kite Runner, taking a quiz; Answering questions about a news article that requires information that is explicit and information that must be inferred. Also, students must summarize main ideas and supporting details and write them down.

Unit: Comprehending and analyzing fiction and nonfiction texts

Time allotted MONDAY Learning Target- Testing

Lesson activities for instructor and students Assignment(s) DueTesting

TUESDAY Learning Target- Testing

Assignment(s) DueTesting

WEDNESDAY Learning TargetStudents will infer information from a news article and show their understanding by answering questions. Students will identify main ideas and supporting details by writing them down in a paragraph.

Assignment(s) DueStudents will answer questions and write a paragraph related to information in a news article.

THURSDAY Learning Target- Students identify figurative language in a song and interpret its meaning and show understanding by writing about it and discussing it as a class. FRIDAY Learning Target- Students will show their understanding of figurative language by taking a quiz that requires them to identify types of figurative language. Students will identify figurative language as they read Chapter 3 in the Kite Runner. They will fill out a graphic organizer with examples of figurative language.

Assignment(s) DueStudents will read and interpret the figurative language in a song and write about it.

Assignment(s) DueQuiz Graphic Organizer on figurative language.

Post-Teaching Reflections on Lesson

What went well?

What needs to be improved? Why?

Strategies to consider for improving lesson: