Direct Instruction Lesson Plan Template

Teachers: Subject:
Michelle Tran, Keegan Ashen, Sydney Snyder, Aaron English Language Arts
Peterson
AZ State Standards:
 Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze in detail its development over the course of the
text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details; provide an objective
summary of the text. (9-10.RL.2)
Learning Objective:
Students will be able to:
 Identify a theme of a text and analyze how the theme develops in the text by providing three to five
details that shape the theme and writing a one paragraph objective summary.
Evidence of Mastery (Measurable):

¨ How will you assess if your student achieved mastery of the lesson objective?
¨ Determine the type of demonstration/activity the student will use to demonstrate mastery of the objective.
¨ What is the condition and degree, the setting or situation in which the student will be able to express the depth and extent of
learning?
¨ What is an exemplar student response with the level of detail you expect to see?

I will assess if my student achieved mastery of the lesson by having them write an objective summary of a
text, analyzing its theme/central idea and how it develops in the text with three to five details from the text.
The condition will be writing the objective summary of the text and the degree will be including the three to
five details from the text in a one paragraph summary.
Key Academic Vocabulary: (Consider Bloom’s Materials Needed:
Verbs)  Paper/laptop (can be digital or handwritten
 Determine: evaluate, assess, conclude summary)
 Analyze: investigate, identify, examine  Pencil
 Provide: construct, produce, report  Copies of the texts for “I do” and for in-class
activity in groups
 Presentation for “I do” and fill-in-the-blank
worksheets that go with it
 Video for opening activity
Opening Activity
¨ How will you activate student interest?
¨ How will you connect and uncover prior knowledge?
¨ How will you present the lesson objective in an engaging and student-friendly way?

I will activate student interest by showing a video that explains what a theme is and how to locate evidence
within a text to support the theme.
I will connect and uncover prior knowledge by asking students the definition of theme and what they know
about theme already, as well as what an objective summary is.
I will present the lesson objective in an engaging and student-friendly way by writing the objective on the
whiteboard so everyone can see it and explaining the objective before I begin the lesson.
Instructional Input “I do”
Teacher Will: Student Will:
¨ How will you model/explain/demonstrate all ¨ What will students be doing to actively capture and
knowledge/skills required of the objective? process the new material and connect to their prior
¨ What types of visuals will you use? knowledge?
¨ How will you address misunderstandings or ¨ How will students be engaged?
common student errors that may be uncovered
within prior knowledge?
¨ How will you explain and model behavioral
expectations?
¨ Is there enough detail in this section so that
another person could teach it?
I will model/explain/demonstrate all The students will be filling out their worksheets as I
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knowledge/skills required of the objective by
providing them an example of a theme I found
in a text (maybe a short story) and the evidence
I found to support it. I will also show them an
example of an objective summary based on the
text and how I formulated it. The types of
visuals I will use is a presentation and a
worksheet that goes along with the
presentation with fill-in-the-blanks. I will
address misunderstandings or common
student errors that may be uncovered within
prior knowledge by showing them bad
examples of themes and what they shouldn’t
do when analyzing a text for a theme, as well
as bad examples of objective summaries.
Guided Practice “We do”
Teacher Will:
¨ How will you provide guidance to all students as
they practice?
¨ How will you ensure that all students have multiple
opportunities to practice new content and skills
with your support?
¨ How will you utilize the support of peers within this
practice?
¨ Is there enough detail in this section so that
another person could facilitate this practice?
I will provide guidance to all students as they
practice by going around the room and
checking on students as they practice in
groups. I will also answer questions that the
students have as they work. I will ensure that
all students have multiple opportunities to
practice new content and skills with my
support by checking for understanding among
the groups and making sure every student is
aware of what they’re doing. I will utilize the
support of peers within this practice by having
them work in groups.
Independent Practice “You do”
Teacher Will:
¨ How will you plan to coach and correct during this
practice?
¨ How will you provide opportunities for remediation and
extension?
¨ How will you clearly state and model academic and
behavioral expectations within the collection of
evidence of mastery?
¨ Did you provide enough detail so that another person
could facilitate the practice?
I plan to coach and correct during this practice
by going around the room and checking every
student’s progress. I will ask them if they have
questions or concerns about what I’m asking
them to do. I will provide opportunities for
remediation and extension by allowing them to
finish their objective summary for homework. I
will clearly state and model academic and
behavioral expectations by providing them a
rubric of what I’m expecting for their objective
present and observing my actions to actively
capture and process new material and connect to
their prior knowledge. They will be engaged by the
worksheet, as well as my examples and
enthusiasm for the content.
Student Will:
¨ How will students be engaged?
¨ How will students practice all knowledge/skills required
of the objective, with your support?
¨ How will you elicit student-to-student interaction?
¨ How are students practicing in ways that align to
independent practice?
The students will be engaged by doing an in-class
activity in groups to determine a theme in a text
(maybe a different short story) and assess the
evidence that supports their theme. Students will
practice knowledge/skills required of the objective
with my support by asking me and their peers
questions. I will elicit student-to-student interaction
by having them discuss and work in groups.
Students will practice in ways that align to
independent practice by thinking of ideas within
their groups to share. By participating in groups,
they are more able to write an objective summary
because they can identify a theme in a text and
support it with evidence.
Student Will:
¨ How will students be engaged?
¨ How will students independently practice the knowledge and
skills required by the objective?
¨ How are students practicing in ways that align to
assessment of collection of evidence of mastery?
¨ How are students using self-assessment to guide their own
learning?
¨ How are you supporting students giving feedback to one
another?
Students will independently practice the knowledge
and skills required by the objective by writing an
objective summary based on the information they
gathered in their groups. They will practice in ways
that align to assessment of collection of evidence
of mastery by beginning to write the summary and
asking questions about it if they need help. They
will use self-assessment to guide their own
learning by reflecting on what they learned in class
from my examples, as well as what they learned
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 summary and briefly going over everything we while working in groups, and applying that
did in class. knowledge to their individual work. I am supporting
students giving feedback to one another by
allowing students to ask their peers for help and
letting them share what they have started for their
summary with their classmates.
Closing Activity:
¨ How will students reflect on learning?
¨ Summarizing and stating the significance of what they learned.
¨ Acknowledge the new information that was added/developed within their schema.

Students will reflect on learning by writing at least four sentences on what they knew prior to the lesson,
what they learned because of the lesson, what they still have trouble understanding about the lesson, and
how the lesson relates to their life in their journals. It will be considered a journal entry in which I check for
student’s understanding and reflection of the lesson after every lesson/day to begin class the next day
with what I gathered from their journal entries.