CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.K.

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With prompting and support, identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.

Part 1: Identify a key language function and one essential learning task within your potential
learning segment lesson plans that allows students to practice the function.
Key language function:
 Explain the main topic of a story
One essential learning task:
 Retell the key details of a Pete the Cat: Rocking in my School Shoes with
90% accuracy.
Content objective:
 SWABT explain the main topic of the story by retelling the key details of
Pete the Cat: Rocking in my School Shoes with 90% accuracy.
Part 2: Identify vocabulary and one additional language demand related to the language function
and learning task.
Vocabulary:
 General academic words: main topic, retelling, key details.
One additional language demand:
 Domain: syntax
Language objective:
 SWABT use a sentence frame with pictures to retell the key details that
explain the main topic of Pete the Cat: Rocking in my School Shoes.
Part 3: Identify and describe the instructional and/or language supports they have planned to
address the language demands.
1. I will model the vocabulary in the book that students aren’t aware of and have them
repeat the word and the meaning back to me.
2. I will use “gradual release of responsibility” model to structure to my student’s how
to retell details of a story.
3. I will use elbow partners while reading the story to the students and prompt them to
retell parts of the story while we read as well as tell the main topic to each other at the
very end.
Introduction
To begin my lesson on the main idea of the story and the key details of story to support, I
will have the students share what they did over the weekend with an elbow partner. Once they
have shared the story with their elbow partner, I will then ask them to retell me what their partner
told me. This is giving the students a connection to their own lives but also having them retell a
story. I will then ask students if there is any part of the weekend that could have been left out,
that didn't need to be told. I will also ask the students what they think the highlight of their elbow
partners weekend was. This leads them into main ideas and key details. We will read Pete the
Cat: Rocking in My School Shoes together as a class and will be stopping on different pages and
modeling to the students how to retell the story and what the key details would be in retelling the
story.