Lesson Plan For Week Ending 03/05/21

Subject: English Language Arts

Objectives/Goals:

Students can summarize an informational text.

Students can compare the overall structure of two texts about the rainforest.

MA Standard: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.5.2
Determine two or more main ideas of a text and explain how they are supported by
key details; summarize the text.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.5.5
Compare and contrast the overall structure (e.g., chronology, comparison,
cause/effect, problem/solution) of events, ideas, concepts, or information in two or
more texts.

Meeting Diverse Needs: Small group instruction as well as sentence starters and graphic
organizers. Teacher will read story while the students read it silently by themselves.

Key Vocabulary:
 Summarize
 compare
 structure
 cause, effect
 observation
 patterns
 affect

Activator:
  The teacher will remind students that they worked on summarizing a website in
lessons 3-4 and comparing the structure of two texts in lesson 3
 The teacher will ask questions about summarizing a text and comparing the structure
of the texts, using a total participation technique, and invite responses from the group.
 The teacher will prompt students to give a thumbs-up, thumbs-down, or thumbs
sideways to indicate how well they understand today’s learning target
 The teacher will meet students needs by checking for comprehension of summarize by
asking students to summarize something that they read or learned recently.

Body:
 Students read “Effects of Studying Rainforests” for gist and then reread to determine
the main idea and describe the structure. Students use a graphic organizer to plan and
write a summary of the text.
● Students compare the structure with the structure of the excerpt from “The Most
Beautiful Roof in the World”
● Students will use Rank-Talk-Write to practice planning a summary
● Students will work in small groups to write a summary. Teacher will model
● Teacher will direct students to pull out unfamiliar words and research meaning.

Conclusion/Follow-Up:
● Remind students that throughout the unit they have been comparing the structures of
the texts they have read. Explain that now they will compare the structures of page 17-
20 from “The Most Beautiful Roof in the World” and of “Effects of Studying
Rainforests
● Allow students to work collaboratively to answer “What is the structure of each
text.”, “What is the purpose and how do you know?”, “How is the information in the
two texts the same/different?”
● Ask for students to “Tell us what your classmates said in your own words.”