HAZLETON AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT
DISTRICT UNIT/LESSON PLAN
Teacher Name : Allyson Correale
Subject :
Reading
Start Date(s): 12/8/14
Grade Level (s): 5th
Building : West Hazleton
Unit Plan
Unit Title: an educational unit title summarizes content across several lessons that establishes and reinforces certain skills and essential knowledge for grade levels and
content areas.
It’s a Wired World
Essential Questions: Essential questions are concept in the form of questions. Questions suggest inquiry. Essential questions are organizers and set the focus for the
lesson or unit. Essential questions are initiators of creative and critical thinking. Essential questions are conceptual commitments focusing on key concepts implicit in the
curriculum
What are the positive and negative effects of new technology?
Standards: PA Core Standards, PA Academic Standards/Anchors
E05.B-K.1.1 Demonstrate understanding of key ideas and details in informational texts.
E05.B-C.2.1 Demonstrate understanding of craft and structure in informational texts.
E05.B-C.3.1 Demonstrate understanding of connections within, between, and among informational texts.
E05.B-V.4.1 Demonstrate understanding of vocabulary in informational texts.
E05.C.1.1 Write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons and information.
Summative Unit Assessment :
Summative Assessment Objective
Students will identify and use story vocabulary correctly within the context of
sentences. Students will read, analyze, and discuss three persuasive articles
and identify varying points of view. Students will use text evidence to
respond to questions from each story. Students will analyze different charts
and use the information presented to better understand the stories.
Students will identify Greek and Latin prefixes and the meanings of these
prefixes. Students will identify words and their meanings that contain these
prefixes. Students will design a poster representing various inventions which
have modernized today’s world and write a persuasive essay on technology.
Assessment Method (check one)
____ Rubric ___ Checklist __x__ Unit Test ____ Group
__x__ Student Self-Assessment
____ Other (explain)
Day
1
Objective (s)
Students will listen to a Read
Aloud to build background
knowledge. Students will identify
story vocabulary and use it
correctly within the context of
sentences and paragraphs.
DOK
LEVEL
1,2
Activities / Teaching Strategies
Structured Overview
Cooperative learning
Discussion
Partner sharing
Grouping
DAILY PLAN
W,S
Materials / Resources
Reading Writing Workshop Books
Vocabulary cards
Your Turn Book
Assessment of Objective (s)
Formative- Discussion
Exit pass
Summative- Completion of Your
Turn page 41
Student Self - AssessmentCollaborative discussions
2
3
Students will read, analyze, and
discuss the persuasive article, ”Are
Electronic Devices Good for Us?”
as a whole group. Students will
respond to a journal prompt giving
their opinion about electronic
devices.
1,2,3
Students will discuss the reading
strategies: Reread and Author’s
Point of View. Students will close
read a passage and identify the
author’s point of view.
1,2,3
Structured overview
Guided and shared
Cooperative discussions
Journal writing
W,S,I
Reading Writing Workshop Books
Journals
Formative- Collaborative
discussions
Peer learning
Summative- Journal entry
Structured Overview
Reading for meaning
Cooperative learning
W,S
Reading Writing Workshop Books
Your Turn Book
Student Self - AssessmentQuestioning, Response to prompt
Formative- Collaborative
discussions
Exit pass
Summative- Completion of Your
Turn book pages 43-45
Student Self - AssessmentCollaborative discussions
Questioning
4
5
Students will identify key ideas
about Persuasive Articles.
Students will read a story and cite
evidence of persuasion. Students
will identify different Greek and
Latin prefixes and words that
contain these prefixes. Students
will use these words correctly
within the context of sentences.
Students will read, analyze, and
discuss the persuasive article, “The
Future of Transportation”.
Students will respond to questions
using text evidence.
1,2,3
Structured Overview
Reading for meaning
Cooperative learning groups
W,S
Reading Writing Workshop Books
Your Turn Book
Prefix lists
Formative- Exit pass
Summative- Completion of Your
Turn book pages 46 and 47
Student Self - Assessment- Peer
learning
2,3,4
Structured Overview
Reading for meaning
Think-pair-share
Collaborative discussions
W,S
Reading Anthology Books
Formative- Think-pair-share
Exit pass
Summative- Completion of Your
Turn book page 42
Student Self - Assessment- Self
questioning
6
7
Students will read, analyze, and
discuss the technical text,” Getting
From Here to There” in their
collaborative groups. Students will
analyze charts and graphs to
interpret information from the
story. Students will complete the
vocabulary quiz.
1,2,3,4
Students will write a persuasive
essay about a form of technology
that they use on a daily basis.
Students will complete the
selection test on the story, “The
Future of Transportation”.
3,4
Reading for meaning
Think-pair-share
Collaborative discussions
S,I
Reading Anthology Books
Vocabulary Quizzes
Formative- Think-pair-share
Exit pass
Summative- Vocabulary Quiz
Student Self - AssessmentCollaborative discussions
Questioning
Journal Writing
Reading for meaning
I
Journals
Selection Tests
Formative- Exit pass
Summative- Completion of journal
prompt and test
Student Self - AssessmentJournal sharing
Questioning
Students will complete the Weekly
Skills test .
8
3,4
Reading for meaning
I
Weekly Skills Test
Formative- Exit pass
SummativeCompletion of Skills Test
Student Self - AssessmentQuestioning