Reading Workshop Lesson Plan Format
Standard: ELAGSE7L6: Acquire and accurately use grade-appropriate general academic and domain-specific words and phrases;
gather vocabulary knowledge when considering a word or phrase important to comprehension or expression.
ELAGSE7RI5: Analyze the structure an author uses to organize a text, including
how the major sections contribute to the whole and to the development of the ideas.
EQ: What are some of the content specific words and phrases that relate to Outbreak? What are the text features that Barnard
uses to present the information in Outbreak? What significant facts have I learned about the bubonic plague? How did the plague
change the course of history?
Daily Segments: AIR (Accountable Independent Reading), Read Aloud, Interactive Activities
Monday
AIR
Journal: I would like to
ask the author…….
RA
Cloze reading (D)
Students list key words
and summarizers as they
read-A/B partners
Note-taking guide
Tuesday
Achieve Lab
*Conferencing-finish
updating Lexile
adjustments/AR
**Quiz on intro section
Article: Medieval
Europe:Understanding
the Black Death
Wednesday
Journal: SWBS for your
novel
Finish
keywords/summarizers and
review
Brainpop Review
Thursday
Friday
Journal: Explain a conflict.
Journal: Describe a
setting.
Wrap Up Brainpop
Activity
Primary sources:
News stories on bubonic
plague
missionary’s report from
China
Compare info in Outbreak
to these sources
*Differentiation is ongoing with Reading Workshop via student selection with AIR and reactions in Readers Notebook and RW home/school
folder. Other specific means of differentiation with be designated with a D.
IA
Students list key words
and summarizers as they
read-A/B partners
Note-taking guide
CNN news website
review :article on black
death diagnosis “Plague
confirmed in Oregon
teen”
Vocabulary for Outbreakcards for words
Vocabulary for
Outbreak
Compare info in Outbreak
to these sources
Homework: Everyone document independent reading in colored RW folder. Writing assignment in folder to deal
with visualize thinking strategy. Throughout the week, students should add at least 5 vocab cards on content
specific words from Outbreak: pandemic, epidemic, endemic, quarantine, vector, and list to be given in class.
Resources from Media Center:
614.4 Giblin When Plague Strikes
363.34 Walker Famine, Droughts, and Plagues
614.5732 The Black Death
Differentiated Text for grade level classes: Pox, Plagues, Pestilence (lower lexile than Outbreak)
*Differentiation is ongoing with Reading Workshop via student selection with AIR and reactions in Readers Notebook and RW home/school
folder. Other specific means of differentiation with be designated with a D.
*Differentiation is ongoing with Reading Workshop via student selection with AIR and reactions in Readers Notebook and RW home/school
folder. Other specific means of differentiation with be designated with a D.