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Lesson Plan #1

Drawing Conclusions and Oral Fluency
Reading, Elementary, Grade 1

Guided Practice and Independent Practice activities to support the following lesson objectives for drawing conclusions:
Student will be able to:
  • Use information in the text to draw a conclusion.
  • Combine background knowledge with text to draw a conclusion.
  • Combine illustrations and text to draw a conclusion.

Guided Practice activity to support the following lesson objective for context clues:
Student will be able to:
  • Read a passage aloud with accuracy and comprehension.
  • Read a passage aloud with appropriate pacing, phrasing, and expression.

Lesson Plan #1

Summarizing Text and Oral Fluency
Reading, Elementary, Grade 2

Guided Practice and Independent Practice activities to support the following lesson objectives for drawing conclusions:
Student will be able to:
  • Summarize the main idea in a story.
  • Summarize important details in a story.

Guided Practice activity to support the following lesson objective for context clues:
Student will be able to:
  • Read a passage aloud with accuracy and comprehension.
  • Read a passage aloud with appropriate pacing, phrasing, and expression

Lesson Plan #1

Predicting Outcomes and Oral Fluency
Reading, Elementary, Grade 3

Guided Practice and Independent Practice activities to support the following lesson objectives for drawing conclusions:
Student will be able to:
  • Apply likely outcomes for a passage and use prior knowledge to help make predictions.
  • Understand details that support a prediction.

Guided Practice activity to support the following lesson objective for context clues:
Student will be able to:
  • Read a passage aloud with accuracy and comprehension.
  • Read a passage aloud with appropriate pacing, phrasing, and expression.

Lesson Plan #1

Persuasion and Oral Fluency
Reading, Elementary, Grade 4

Guided Practice and Independent Practice activities to support the following lesson objectives for drawing conclusions:
Student will be able to:
  • Apply knowledge of persuasive techniques.
  • Analyze the difference between logic and emotion.
  • Identify stated opinions or beliefs that the author wants the reader to accept.

Guided Practice activity to support the following lesson objective for context clues:
Student will be able to:
  • Read a passage aloud with accuracy and comprehension.
  • Read a passage aloud with appropriate pacing, phrasing, and expression.

Lesson Plan #1

Implied Main Idea and Oral Fluency
Reading, Elementary, Grade 5

Guided Practice and Independent Practice activities to support the following lesson objectives for drawing conclusions:
Student will be able to:
  • Understand the implied main idea and supporting details of a story or passage.
  • Use supporting details to determine the implied main idea.

Guided Practice activity to support the following lesson objective for context clues:
Student will be able to:
  • Read a passage aloud with accuracy and comprehension.
  • Read a passage aloud with appropriate pacing, phrasing, and expression.

Lesson Plan #1

Implied Main Idea and Oral Fluency
Reading, Middle, Grade 6

Guided Practice and Independent Practice activities to support the following lesson objectives for drawing conclusions:
Student will be able to:
  • Understand the implied main idea and supporting details of a story or passage.
  • Use supporting details to determine the implied main idea.

Guided Practice activity to support the following lesson objective for context clues:
Student will be able to:
  • Read a passage aloud with accuracy and comprehension.
  • Read a passage aloud with appropriate pacing, phrasing, and expression.

Lesson Plan #1

Inferences and Context Clues
Reading, Middle, Grade 7

Guided Practice and Independent Practice activities to support the following lesson objectives for drawing conclusions:
Student will be able to:
  • Use deductive reasoning to make inferences.
  • Employ prior knowledge to assist in making inferences.

Guided Practice activity to support the following lesson objective for context clues:
Student will be able to:
  • Derive the meaning of various words using concrete and inferential context clues.

Lesson Plan #1

Author’s Purpose and Skimming
Reading, Middle, Grade 8

Guided Practice and Independent Practice activities to support the following lesson objectives for drawing conclusions:
Student will be able to:
  • Determine the author's purpose, or motive, for writing.
  • Explain how text characteristics, such as word choice, syntax, and organization, further the author's purpose.

Guided Practice activity to support the following lesson objective for context clues:
Student will be able to:
  • Apply skimming techniques to find the main idea.
  • Apply skimming techniques to locate specific information.

Lesson Plan #1

Inferences and Multiple Meaning Words
Reading, High, Grade 9

Guided Practice and Independent Practice activities to support the following lesson objectives for drawing conclusions:
Student will be able to:
  • Use deductive reasoning to make inferences.
  • Employ prior knowledge to assist in making inferences.

Guided Practice activity to support the following lesson objective for context clues:
Student will be able to:
  • Identify multiple meaning words, or homographs.
  • Choose the correct multiple meaning word to use in a sentence.
  • Write sentences using multiple meaning words.

Lesson Plan #1

Cause and Effect and Denotation and Connotation
Reading, High, Grade 10

Guided Practice and Independent Practice activities to support the following lesson objectives for drawing conclusions:
Student will be able to:
  • Identify and analyze cause and effect relationships in passages.

Guided Practice activity to support the following lesson objective for context clues:
Student will be able to:
  • Analyze and explain the importance of subtle differences in meaning between synonyms in order to understand word choice in a text.
  • Distinguish between the denotative and connotative meanings of words in text.
  • Analyze the cumulative impact of connotative meaning on a passage's meaning and tone.

Lesson Plan #1

Integrated Skills and Context Clues
Reading, High, Grade 11

Guided Practice and Independent Practice activities to support the following lesson objectives for drawing conclusions:
Student will be able to:
  • Apply a range of comprehension strategies to textbook passages.

Guided Practice activity to support the following lesson objective for context clues:
Student will be able to:
  • Define unfamiliar words through the use of context clues.
  • Identify different types of context clues.

Lesson Plan #1

Implied Main Idea and Context Clues
Reading, High, Grade 12

Guided Practice and Independent Practice activities to support the following lesson objectives for drawing conclusions:
Student will be able to:
  • Understand the main idea and supporting details in a passage.
  • Apply details that support the main idea.
  • Understand how to make an inference based on the implied main idea of a reading passage.

Guided Practice activity to support the following lesson objective for context clues:
Student will be able to:
  • Derive the meanings of words based on their context clues.
  • Derive the meaning of words based on their usage in a text.
  • Identify types of context clues.

Lesson Plan #2

Integrated Skills and Context Clues
Reading, Elementary, Grade 1

Guided Practice and Independent Practice activities to support the following lesson objectives for drawing conclusions:
Student will be able to:
  • Apply reading skills to informational text.
  • Use personal knowledge to help with understanding.

Guided Practice activity to support the following lesson objective for context clues:
Student will be able to:
  • Derive the meaning of various words using context clues.

Lesson Plan #2

Integrated Skills and Prefixes
Reading, Elementary, Grade 2

Guided Practice and Independent Practice activities to support the following lesson objectives for drawing conclusions:
Student will be able to:
  • Apply reading skills to informational passages.
  • Use knowledge and experience to help with understanding.

Guided Practice activity to support the following lesson objective for context clues:
Student will be able to:
  • Identify, define, and make new words using prefixes.

Lesson Plan #2

Drawing Conclusions and Context Clues
Reading, Elementary, Grade 3

Guided Practice and Independent Practice activities to support the following lesson objectives for drawing conclusions:
Student will be able to:
  • Use information in the text to draw a conclusion.
  • Combine background knowledge with text to draw a conclusion.
  • Combine illustrations and text to draw a conclusion.

Guided Practice activity to support the following lesson objective for context clues:
Student will be able to:
  • Derive the meaning of various words using concrete and inferential context clues.

Lesson Plan #2

Theme and Denotation and Connotation
Reading, Elementary, Grade 4

Guided Practice and Independent Practice activities to support the following lesson objectives for drawing conclusions:
Student will be able to:
  • Use details in a story to determine the story's theme.

Guided Practice activity to support the following lesson objective for context clues:
Student will be able to:
  • Sefine a word's denotative and connotative meanings.
  • Recognize that words with similar denotations may carry different connotations, depending on context.

Lesson Plan #2

Evaluating Credibility and Roots
Reading, Elementary, Grade 5

Guided Practice and Independent Practice activities to support the following lesson objectives for drawing conclusions:
Student will be able to:
  • Evaluate an author’s credibility.

Guided Practice activity to support the following lesson objective for context clues:
Student will be able to:
  • Use prefixes, suffixes, and roots to create new words.
  • Identify the root in a word.
  • Define a word based on its parts.

Lesson Plan #2

Predicting Outcomes and Context Clues
Reading, Middle, Grade 6

Guided Practice and Independent Practice activities to support the following lesson objectives for drawing conclusions:
Student will be able to:
  • Analyze the difference between likely and unlikely outcomes.
  • Locate details in a story that support a prediction.
  • Apply prior knowledge and personal and experience to help make predictions.

Guided Practice activity to support the following lesson objective for context clues:
Student will be able to:
  • Explain the meaning of unfamiliar words by using synonyms, definitions, and examples.
  • Interpret the meaning of unfamiliar words by using inferred context clues.

Lesson Plan #2

Evaluating Reasoning and Support and Context Clues
Reading, Middle, Grade 7

Guided Practice and Independent Practice activities to support the following lesson objectives for drawing conclusions:
Student will be able to:
  • Analyze the reasons and evidence an author uses to support an argument or claim.
  • Trace the development of an author's argument.
  • Evaluate supporting evidence in terms of its accuracy and appropriateness.

Independent Practice activity to support the following lesson objective for context clues:
Student will be able to:
  • Derive the meaning of various words using concrete and inferential context clues.

Lesson Plan #2

Evaluating Credibility and Context Clues
Reading, Middle, Grade 8

Guided Practice and Independent Practice activities to support the following lesson objectives for drawing conclusions:
Student will be able to:
  • Evaluate an author's credibility based on analysis of bias, reasoning, and support for an argument.

Guided Practice activity to support the following lesson objective for context clues:
Student will be able to:
  • Derive the meaning of various words using concrete and inferential context clues.

Lesson Plan #2

Evaluating Reasoning and Support and Context Clues
Reading, High, Grade 9

Guided Practice and Independent Practice activities to support the following lesson objectives for drawing conclusions:
Student will be able to:
  • Analyze the logic and reasoning in an argument.
  • Evaluate evidence given for or against a claim for relevance, quality, and appropriateness.
  • Distinguish supported and unsupported inferences to discover assumptions or missing evidence.

Independent Practice activity to support the following lesson objective for context clues:
Student will be able to:
  • Identify multiple meaning words, or homographs.
  • Choose the correct multiple meaning word to use in a sentence.
  • Write sentences using multiple meaning words.

Lesson Plan #2

Evaluating Reasoning and Support and Denotation and Connotation
Reading, High, Grade 10

Guided Practice and Independent Practice activities to support the following lesson objectives for drawing conclusions:
Student will be able to:
  • Analyze the logic and reasoning in an argument.
  • Identify the strengths, weaknesses, and acknowledgement of counterarguments in an author's argument.
  • Evaluate evidence for relevance, quality, credibility, and completeness.

Independent Practice activity to support the following lesson objective for context clues:
Student will be able to:
  • Analyze the logic and reasoning in an argument.
  • Identify the strengths, weaknesses, and acknowledgement of counterarguments in an author's argument.
  • Evaluate evidence for relevance, quality, credibility, and completeness.

Lesson Plan #2

Plot and Context Clues
Reading, High, Grade 11

Guided Practice and Independent Practice activities to support the following lesson objectives for drawing conclusions:
Student will be able to:
  • Recognize and analyze a wider range of archetypal plot structures (e.g., generational conflicts, coming-of-age).
  • Analyze how structural choices made for parts of the text affect the work as a whole.

Independent Practice activity to support the following lesson objective for context clues:
Student will be able to:
  • Define unfamiliar words through the use of context clues.
  • Identify different types of context clues.

Lesson Plan #2

Setting and Context Clues
Reading, High, Grade 12

Guided Practice and Independent Practice activities to support the following lesson objectives for drawing conclusions:
Student will be able to:
  • Evaluate the cultural, political, intellectual, and social influences of the setting on a work of literature.
  • Analyze and evaluate how shifts in setting influence a literary work.

Independent Practice activity to support the following lesson objective for context clues:
Student will be able to:
  • Derive the meanings of words based on their context clues.
  • Derive the meaning of words based on their usage in a text.
  • Identify types of context clues.

Lesson Plan #3

Character Analysis and Context Clues
Reading, Elementary, Grade 1

Guided Practice and Independent Practice activities to support the following lesson objectives for drawing conclusions:
Student will be able to:
  • Identify the main characters in a story.
  • Describe the main characters in a story.

Independent Practice activity to support the following lesson objective for context clues:
Student will be able to:
  • Derive the meaning of various words using context clues.

Lesson Plan #3

Interpreting Visual Aids and Prefixes
Reading, Elementary, Grade 2

Guided Practice and Independent Practice activities to support the following lesson objectives for drawing conclusions:
Student will be able to:
  • Interpret information from visual aids and graphs.

Independent Practice activity to support the following lesson objective for context clues:
Student will be able to:
  • Identify, define, and make new words using prefixes.

Lesson Plan #3

Evaluating Reasoning and Support and Context Clues
Reading, Elementary, Grade 3

Guided Practice and Independent Practice activities to support the following lesson objectives for drawing conclusions:
Student will be able to:
  • Identify an author's main argument or claim.
  • Cite the reasons the author uses to support a claim.

Independent Practice activity to support the following lesson objective for context clues:
Student will be able to:
  • Derive the meaning of various words using concrete and inferential context clues

Lesson Plan #3

Evaluating Reasoning and Support and Denotation and Connotation
Reading, Elementary, Grade 4

Guided Practice and Independent Practice activities to support the following lesson objectives for drawing conclusions:
Student will be able to:
  • Identify an author's argument or claim.
  • Explain how an author uses reasons and evidence to support a claim.

Independent Practice activity to support the following lesson objective for context clues:
Student will be able to:
  • Define a word's denotative and connotative meanings.
  • Recognize that words with similar denotations may carry different connotations, depending on context.

Lesson Plan #3

Figurative Language and Roots
Reading, Elementary, Grade 5

Guided Practice and Independent Practice activities to support the following lesson objectives for drawing conclusions:
Student will be able to:
  • Recognize different types of figurative language.
  • Interpret the meaning of figurative language.

Independent Practice activity to support the following lesson objective for context clues:
Student will be able to:
  • Use prefixes, suffixes, and roots to create new words.
  • Identify the root in a word.
  • Define a word based on its parts.

Lesson Plan #3

Alliteration and Onomatopoeia and Context Clues
Reading, Middle, Grade 6

Guided Practice and Independent Practice activities to support the following lesson objectives for drawing conclusions:
Student will be able to:
  • Recognize alliteration or onomatopoeia in a passage.
  • Interpret the meaning and effect of alliteration or onomatopoeia.

Independent Practice activity to support the following lesson objective for context clues:
Student will be able to:
  • Explain the meaning of unfamiliar words by using synonyms, definitions, and examples.
  • Interpret the meaning of unfamiliar words by using inferred context clues.

Lesson Plan #3

Tone and Mood and Skimming
Reading, Middle, Grade 7

Guided Practice and Independent Practice activities to support the following lesson objectives for drawing conclusions:
Student will be able to:
  • Demonstrate understanding of tone and mood in writing.
  • Evaluate how language affects tone and mood.

Guided Practice activity to support the following lesson objective for context clues:
Student will be able to:
  • Apply skimming techniques to find the main idea.
  • Apply skimming techniques to locate specific information.

Lesson Plan #3

Figurative Language and Context Clues
Reading, Middle, Grade 8

Guided Practice and Independent Practice activities to support the following lesson objectives for drawing conclusions:
Student will be able to:
  • Recognize different types of figurative language.
  • Interpret the meaning of figurative language.
  • Analyze the effect of figurative language on the meaning of text.

Independent Practice activity to support the following lesson objective for context clues:
Student will be able to:
  • Derive the meaning of various words using concrete and inferential context clues.

Lesson Plan #3

Theme and Integrated Skills
Reading, High, Grade 9

Guided Practice and Independent Practice activities to support the following lesson objectives for drawing conclusions:
Student will be able to:
  • Explain how theme is revealed through literary elements such as plot and characterization.
  • Connect universal themes to prior knowledge and personal experience.

Guided Practice activity to support the following lesson objective for context clues:
Student will be able to:
  • Apply a mix of comprehension strategies in order to construct meaning from a textbook passage.

Lesson Plan #3

Alliteration and Onomatopoeia and Vocabulary Development
Reading, High, Grade 10

Guided Practice and Independent Practice activities to support the following lesson objectives for drawing conclusions:
Student will be able to:
  • Recognize alliteration or onomatopoeia in a story or passage.
  • Interpret the meaning and effect of alliteration or onomatopoeia as it is used in a story or passage.

Guided Practice activity to support the following lesson objective for context clues:
Student will be able to:
  • Define and use new vocabulary terms.

Lesson Plan #3

Evaluating Reasoning and Support and Vocabulary Development
Reading, High, Grade 11

Guided Practice and Independent Practice activities to support the following lesson objectives for drawing conclusions:
Student will be able to:
  • Analyze the logic and reasoning in an argument.
  • Identify the strengths, weaknesses, and acknowledgement of counterarguments in an author's argument.
  • Evaluate evidence for relevance, quality, credibility, and completeness.

Guided Practice activity to support the following lesson objective for context clues:
Student will be able to:
  • Define and use new vocabulary terms.

Lesson Plan #3

Evaluating Reasoning and Support and Vocabulary Development
Reading, High, Grade 12

Guided Practice and Independent Practice activities to support the following lesson objectives for drawing conclusions:
Student will be able to:
  • Evaluate an argument's validity, impact, logic, evidence, response to counterarguments, and completeness.

Guided Practice activity to support the following lesson objective for context clues:
Student will be able to:
  • Define and use new vocabulary terms.