Lesson

Length

Lesson 1
The Four Types of
Text Features

Two class
sessions (90
minutes)

Lesson 2
Explaining the
Function of
Informational Text
Features

One class
session (45
minutes)

Performance
Objectives
Performance
Objective 1:
Using the text features
guide and given one
text feature from each
of the four types, the
student will be able to
match each feature
with the correct type
and function in the text
with 75% accuracy.

Flow of Instructional
Activities
Step 1: Pre-Instructional
Activities
(Review/Activation of prior
knowledge: 5 minutes;
Purpose for Learning: 3
minutes, and Guess at the
definition of Text Features:2
minutes;10 minutes total)
Step 2: Content
Presentation (Text Features
Lecture with Powerpoint: 35
minutes total with 15 of the
35 devoted to learner
participation within the
content presentation)
Step 3: Learner
Participation (Interactive
activities during Content
Presentation on Day 1: 15
minutes, Individual
Scavenger Hunt with
American History Textbooks
on Day 2: 15 minutes, Group
Matching activity on Day 2:
15 minutes)
Step 4: Assessment (Exit
Slip: 8 minutes-extended
time provided to students
with IEPs as needed)
Step 5: Follow-Through
Activities (Individual
Activity-2 minutes; Group
Discussion: 5 minutes)

Performance
Objective 2: Given a
grade-level
informational text with
several text features of
various types, the
student will be able to
accurately explain how
the text features

Step 1: Pre-Instructional
Activities (Review of
yesterdays lesson-5 minutes)
Step 2: Content
Presentation (Text Features
in Context Lecture: 3
minutes; Model
explanation/discussion of text
feature functions in context: 7

present information or
help him/her navigate
the text in at least 2-3
sentences with a
minimum of 2 specific
examples of text
features from the text
with 100% accuracy.

Lesson 3
Analyzing Text
Structure

Two class
sessions (90
minutes) + 15
minutes
homework

Performance
Objective 3:
Given a grade-level
informational text, the
student will be able to
select the response that
correctly identifies the
text structure(s) used
and/or connects the
text structure to the
authors purpose in a
given portion of
informational with
80% accuracy.

minutes10 minutes total)

Step 3: Learner
Participation (Partner
Stations Activity: 15
minutes)
Step 4: Assessment (Short
Answer Question: 10
minutes)
Step 5: Follow-Through
Activities (Group
Discussion: 5 minutes)
Step 1: Pre-Instructional
Activities (Independent
Critical thinking activity: 7
minutes; Think-Pair-Share: 3
minutes; Whole Class
Discussion: 5 minutes)
Step 2: Content
Presentation (Topic
Lecture: 20 minutes (10
minutes Learner Participation
within) on Day 1; 15 minutes
(5 minutes Learner
Participation within) on Day
2; Total: 40 minutes)
Step 3: Learner
Participation (15 minutes
during Content Presentation
(10 minutes in Day 1
including whole class
discussion and guided notetaking, and 5 minutes in Day
2 including whole class
discussion/practice); 10
minutes-Group Activity on
Day 1; 8 minutes-Group
Activity on Day 2; 13
minutes- online i-Ready
virtual lesson on Day 2)
Step 4: Assessment (iReady multiple choice quiz:
10 minutes)
Step 5: Follow-Through
Activities (Individual
Activity: 15 minutes of
homework)

Lesson 4
Identifying
Keywords and
Demands in
Questions/Prompts

Two class
sessions (90
minutes+15
minutes of
homework)

Lesson 5
Assessing the
Required Depth of
a Response

One class
session (45
minutes)

Lesson 6
Locating Answers
or Evidence in the
Text

Two class
sessions (90
minutes)

Performance
Objective 4: Given a
grade-level
comprehension
question about an
informational text, the
student will be able to
identify 100% of the
keywords by
underlining them and
100% of the demands
by numbering them
within the question.

Step 1: Pre-Instructional
Activities (Reading: 5
minutes; Independent
Comprehension Questions:
15 minutes)
Step 2: Content
Presentation (Topic
Lecture: 15 minutes)
Step 3: Learner
Participation (Whole Class
Discussion/Activity: 20
minutes (15 in Day 1, 5 in
Day 2); Individual Activity:
15 minutes, Small Group
Activity: 10 minutes)
Step 4: Assessment
(Identification: 5 minutes)
Step 5: Follow-Through
Activities (Group
Discussion: 5 minutes;
Individual Activity: 20
minutes of homework)
Performance
Step 1: Pre-Instructional
Objective 5: Given a
Activities (Writers
grade-level
Notebook and discussion: 10
comprehension
minutes)
question about an
Step 2: Content
informational text with Presentation (Topic
Lecture: 15 minutes)
an indicated point
value, required length, Step 3: Learner
Participation (Group
and label, the student
Activity: 12 minutes)
will be able to assess
Step 4: Assessment (Short
how in-depth his/her
Answer Choice: 5 minutes)
response should be in
Step 5: Follow-Through
2-3 written sentences
Activities (Think-Pair-Share:
based on point value,
required length, and the 1 minute; Group Discussion:
2 minutes)
label of the question
with 100% accuracy.
Performance
Step 1: Pre-Instructional
Activities (Writers
Objective 6:
Given a grade-level
Notebook-15 minutes)
informational text with Step 2: Content
corresponding
Presentation
(Lecture/Modeling: 20
comprehension
minutes)
questions, the student

will be able to locate

(circle) the correct
answers or evidence in
the text with 80%
accuracy.

Lesson 7
Assembling an
Answer by
Restating the
Question

One class
session (45
minutes)

Performance
Objective 7:
Given a grade-level
informational text and
a corresponding shortanswer comprehension
question, the student
will be able to
assemble a clear,
cohesive, and correct
answer which is
framed by a
restatement of the
question so that the
answer would make
sense to someone who
had not seen the
question with 100%
accuracy.

Lesson 8
Composing an
Answer with
Citations of
Evidence

Three class
sessions (135
minutes)

Performance
Objective 8: Provided
with several examples
of comprehension
questions requiring
cited evidence and
corresponding
correctly-framed
answers, the student
will be able to compose
a clear, cohesive
response of at least 1-2
well-framed sentences
which restate the
question, introduce the

Step 3: Learner
Participation (Group
Activity: 10 minutes; Whole
Class Discussion: 10
minutes)
Step 4: Assessment (Short
answer question 25 minutes)
Step 5: Follow-Through
Activities (Think-Pair-Share:
5 minutes; Whole Group
Discussion: 5 minutes)
Step 1: Pre-Instructional
Activities (Individual
activity: 3 minutes; ThinkPair-Share: 5 minutes; Whole
Group Discussion: 2 minutes)
Step 2: Content
Presentation (Topic
Lecture: 10 minutes)
Step 3: Learner
Participation (Small Group
Activity: 10 minutes)
Step 4: Assessment
(Individual Activity: 10
minutes)
Step 5: Follow-Through
Activities (Think-Pair-Share:
3 minutes; Whole Group
Discussion: 2 minutes)
Step 1: Pre-Instructional
Activities (Introduction: 20
minutes)
Step 2: Content
Presentation (Topic
Lecture: 25 minutes)
Step 3: Learner
Participation (Small Group
Activity: 15 minutes, Large
Group Discussion: 5 minutes;
Individual Activity: 25
minutes)
Step 4: Assessment (PostInstruction Test: 30 minutes)
Step 5: Follow-Through

evidence with a
transition, include the
paragraph and page
numbers in which the
evidence was found,
and properly quote or
paraphrase the
evidence with 100%
accuracy.

Activities (Individual
Reflection Questions: 15
minutes; Group Discussion: 5
minutes)