Alvarado Intermediate School 2015-2016
Teacher: Tatum
Week: 2
Grade: 6
Unit: 4
Content Area: Reading Honors
Content TEKS Covered: 6.10A - Summarize the main ideas and supporting
Cross-Curricular STAAR TEKS Supported:
details in text, demonstrating an understanding that a summary does not include
(non-tested content areas only)
opinions. 6.14B - Develop drafts by choosing an appropriate organizational
strategy (e.g., sequence of events, cause-effect, compare-contrast) and building
on ideas to create a focused, organized, and coherent piece of writing. 6.Fig19C Monitor and adjust comprehension (e.g., using background knowledge; creating
sensory images; rereading a portion aloud; generating questions. 6.Fig19D Make inferences about text and use textual evidence to support understanding.
6.Fig19B - Ask literal, interpretive, evaluative, and universal questions of text.
Essential /Guiding Question(s):
Academic Vocabulary: bandwagon, false
How can a person impact my life?
authority, faulty reasoning, red herring,
What are ways that I can improve my comprehension?
testimonial, exaggeration, scare tactic,
appeal
WICOR Components (highlight):
Writing
Learning
Engage
Inquiry
Explore
Collaboration
Explain
Organization
Elaborate
Objective(s):
Reading
Evaluate
Closing
Task(s):
Monday
I do- The
The students
I will… explain
We will…
teacher will
will work in
one of my
Monitor and
discuss how
pairs to
answers and
adjust
the students will complete the
the evidence I
comprehension.
review their
found to prove
Make inferences
passages.
it.
about text
Tuesday
We do- We will
Students will
I will… Show my
We will… Ask
Students will
discuss the two
use a graphic
neighbor one
literal,
see a book
main
organizer to
adjective I
interpretive,
trailer of Fever
characters in
make a
chose for one of
evaluative, and
1793, by Laurie
the novel.
character
my characters.
universal
Halse Anderson
analysis of Peta
questions of text.
and Katniss.
Wednesday
Read Wednesday
We will review
I will… find a
We will… Monitor
Wars
Library
challenging
procedures.
book.
and adjust
comprehension
Thursday
Read Wednesday
I do- The
The students
Students will
I will… share
We will…
Wars
teacher will
will complete a
write an essay
one thing that I
Summarize the
explain the
graphic
explaining: How learned from
main ideas and
graphic
organizer for
has Peta and
supporting
organizer.
Hunger Games
Katniss’s
details in text.
You do-
relationship
Ask literal,
Students will
changed
interpretive,
think about the
throughout the
evaluative, and
relationship
course of
universal
between
novel?
questions of text.
Katniss and
Peta in Hunger
Games and
compare that to
Hunger Games.
a relationship
they have had
with someone.
Friday
Read Wednesday
Students will
I will… use an
We will…
Wars
complete their
exit ticket to
Summarize the
essay from
write the
main ideas and
Thursday.
sentence that I
supporting
thought was the
details in text.
most
Ask literal,
descriptive
interpretive,
sentence in my
evaluative, and
essay.
universal
questions of text.
Individual Customized Learning
Differentiated Academic Support:
Bilingual/ESL Language Support:
Behavioral Support: