Folks ELAR Lesson Plans for the Week of:

Wednesday

Tuesday

Monday

TEKS/Objective
Students will write expository texts
to communicate ideas and
information to specific audiences for
specific purposes.
17(B) write informal letters that
convey ideas, include important
information, demonstrate a sense of
closure, and use appropriate
conventions.
4(A) explain how figurative language
contributes to the meaning of a poem.
Figure 19
(D) make inferences about text and
use textual evidence to support
understanding
(E) summarize, paraphrase, and
synthesize text in ways that maintain
meaning and logical order within a
text and across texts
(F) make connections between and
across multiple texts of various
genres, and provide textual evidence.

8(A) explain how authors create

meaning through stylistic elements
and figurative language
Figure 19
(D) make inferences about text and
use textual evidence to support
understanding
(E) summarize, paraphrase, and
synthesize text in ways that maintain
meaning and logical order within a
text and across texts
(F) make connections between and
across multiple texts of various
genres, and provide textual evidence.

April 21-25

Academic
Vocabulary

Teacher/Teachers: Hubbard, Schwarz, Salinas, Sampayo

Activities/Strategies

Quality
Questioning

Enrichment /
Remediation

Assessment

Enrichment:
Prewrite
Draft
Revise
Edit
Publish

Figurative
Language
Tone
Sensory
words
Text to Self
Text to Text
Text to World

1. Generating ideas and

prewriting with counselor visit
and write draft
2. Students revise with partner
using pointing
3. Students edit using
raciocination
4. Students write final draft.
1. SSR
2. Introduce Abandoned
Farmhouse
3. Complete Qualities of
Literature identifying sheet
4. Read 2nd Poem
5. Students fill out Qualities of
Literature sheet
6. Discuss
7. Students write a response,
including summary and
connections
8. Share

How can writing

about your
experiences benefit
your target
audience?

Create a drama
depicting the topics
discussed in your
letter

Remediation:

Use a graphic
organizer to help
organize ideas.

Enrichment:
How can the
authors use of
figurative language
help convey
meaning about the
subject?

Write your response

in the form of a
poem using similar
figurative language
techniques as the
author

Theme
Text to Self
Text to Text
Text to World

1. Grammar Warm Up
2. Read Fiction Story
3. Students fill out Qualities of
Literature sheet
4. Discuss
5. Students write a response,
including summary and
connections
6. Share

How can an
authors use of
literary elements
help support the
theme of a fictional
story?

Qualities of
Lit Sheet
Student
Literary
Response

Remediation:

Work in a small
group to fill out the
Qualities of Lit Sheet

Enrichment:
Sensory
words

Written
Letter

Write your response

in the form of a
fictional story using
similar techniques
as the author

Remediation:

Work in a small
group to fill out the
Qualities of Lit Sheet

Grammar
WarmUp
Qualities of
Lit Sheet
Student
Literary
Response

Folks ELAR Lesson Plans for the Week of:

Friday

Thursday

TEKS/Objective

7(A) identify the literary language

and devices used in memoirs and
personal narratives and compare
their characteristics.
Figure 19
(D) make inferences about text and
use textual evidence to support
understanding
(E) summarize, paraphrase, and
synthesize text in ways that maintain
meaning and logical order within a
text and across texts
(F) make connections between and
across multiple texts of various
genres, and provide textual evidence.
10(C) explain how different
organizational patterns develop the
main idea and the authors viewpoint
Figure 19
(D) make inferences about text and
use textual evidence to support
understanding
(E) summarize, paraphrase, and
synthesize text in ways that maintain
meaning and logical order within a
text and across texts
(F) make connections between and
across multiple texts of various
genres, and provide textual evidence.

April 21-25

Academic
Vocabulary

Point of View
Figurative
Language
Tone
Text to Self
Text to Text
Text to World

Text Structure
Authors
Purpose
Text to Self
Text to Text
Text to World

Teacher/Teachers: Hubbard, Schwarz, Salinas, Sampayo

Activities/Strategies

1. SSR
2. Read Personal Narrative
3. Students fill out Qualities of
Literature sheet
4. Discuss
5. Students write a response,
including summary and
connections
6. Share

1. Grammar Warm Up
2. Read Nonfiction Essay
3. Students fill out Qualities of
Literature sheet
4. Discuss
5. Students write a response,
including summary and
connections
6. Share

Quality
Questioning

How can an
authors use of
figurative language
reflect the tone of a
personal narrative?

Enrichment /
Remediation
Enrichment:
Write your
response in the
form of a personal
connection using
similar techniques
as the author
Remediation:

Assessment

Qualities of
Lit Sheet
Student
Literary
Response

Work in a small
group to fill out the
Qualities of Lit Sheet

Enrichment:

Write your response

in the form of a
How does the
nonfiction essay
organizational
structure found in a using the same
organizational style
nonfiction essay
as the author

support the
information the
author is trying to
relay?

Remediation:

Work in a small
group to fill out the
Qualities of Lit Sheet

Grammar
WarmUp
Qualities of
Lit Sheet
Student
Literary
Response