Region: __________________
District: ________________________
School: __________________
Reform Strategy: ________________
Unit Theme: 5.4 Community Celebrations
Teacher:
Week # 1
Grade: 5th
Subject: English
Date: From _________________ to _____________________ 20___
Desired Result
Durable Comprehension (Key Understanding)
Example: Students will understand that …
Assessment Evidence
Summative Evaluation (Performances Tasks)
Standards
Expectations
Academic Strategy
Monday
Language
5.W.8 , 5.L.1a , 5.S.3 , 5.LA.4c
Language Experience
Learning Plan
Suggested Learning Activities:
Tuesday
Wednesday
Speaking
Writing
5.W.8, 5.R.2L, 5.R3L
5.W.8, 5W.6, 5.L.1a, 5.R.6.1
Thursday
Writing
Friday
Speaking
5.W.8, 5.R.9I, 5.R.9L, 5.LA.2
5.S.2, 5.LA.1
Language Experience
Cooperative Learning
Cooperative Learning
After reviewing the informational
text on holidays around the world,
the student will summarize and
identify characters and setting
through Think-Pair-share.
After discussing the findings of
the research project, the
student will compare and
contrast through a Venn
Diagram traits of Christmas
traditions.
After reading traditional
Christmas celebrations from
different cultures, the student
will compare and contrast traits
using 5.4 Venn Diagram.
At the end of the lesson the
student will organize the parts
of a reading response letter by
writing the parts of a reading
response letter in an exercise
correctly.
___ Recall / Memory
___ Skill / Concept
___ Strategic Thinking
___ Extended Thinking
___ Recall / Memory
___ Skill / Concept
___ Strategic Thinking
___ Extended Thinking
___ Recall / Memory
___ Skill / Concept
___ Strategic Thinking
___ Extended Thinking
___ Recall / Memory
___ Skill / Concept
___ Strategic Thinking
___ Extended Thinking
Instructional Strategy and Phase
Objective
After sharing celebration
experiences, the student will read
an informational text to find key
works for understanding using
Vocabulary Inference 5.1
Worksheet correctly
Depth of Knowledge (DOK)
___ Recall / Memory
___ Skill / Concept
___ Strategic Thinking
___ Extended Thinking
Desired Result
Durable Comprehension (Key Understanding)
Example: Students will understand that …
Assessment Evidence
Summative Evaluation (Performances Tasks)
Initial Activities
Developmental Activities
1. The teacher will introduce the
unit going over the different topics
and skills.
2. The students will use Dialogue
Journal during this unit. Students
will write for 5 to 10 minutes.
What is Christmas to you?
The teacher talks about Puerto
Rican Christmas holiday in
detailed.
1. After listening to the teacher
experience the student will talk
about their own experiences on
Christmas holiday
2. The students will read an
informational text on Christmas
tradition for the students to fine
key words
3. The students will pair share
their findings
Learning Plan
Suggested Learning Activities:
1. The teacher will give a practice 1. The teacher will give a
to the students on a grammatical
practice to the students on a
skill.
grammatical skill.
2. The students write on the
2. The students write on the
Dialogue Journal for 5 to 10
Dialogue Journal for 5 to 10
minutes about personal
minutes about the difference
experiences had with traditions.
between the way you see your
families Christmas traditions
and the way other families see
it making connections with the
reading.
1. The teacher will read aloud an
1. The student will be divided in
informational text about a
groups for a short research
Christmas traditions.5.4 Holidays
project on Christmas Traditions.
Handouts.
2. The students will ask and
2. The student will answer openanswer questions on their
ended question using formal and
opinion and knowledge on
non-formal discussion for reading Christmas traditions. They will
comprehension.
use their Dialogue Journal
3. The student will re-read the
annotations.
text to summarize it.
2. The student will share the
findings and compare to each
other orally.
1. The teacher will give a
practice to the students on a
grammatical skill.
2. The students write on the
Dialogue Journal for 5 to 10
minutes about the things you
like about other Christmas
traditions read in class.
1. Review previous lessons
using the Venn Diagram
comparing the different
Christmas celebrations.
2. To introduce the theme of
letter the teacher will ask
questions about how to write a
letter to assess and motivate.
1. The teacher reads aloud
fiction texts related to these
holidays and models how to
compare and contrast the
characters from the fictional
stories, distinguishing in
particular between the main
character and the supporting
characters.
2. The student will orally
analyze details of the story
orally as a class.
3 The students will go over the
details and summary of the
reading using 5.4 Story Map
Introduce parts of the letter.
1. Play a game with index cards
giving out the parts of the
reading response letter and
having the students organize
them.
2. The teacher will go over a
sample of a reading response
letter asking questions to the
students to connect each part
with the readings done in class.
3. The students will do a Think
–pair –share of what they
understood about the parts of a
reading response letter.
Discussion about Christmas
traditions.
Desired Result
Durable Comprehension (Key Understanding)
Example: Students will understand that …
Assessment Evidence
Summative Evaluation (Performances Tasks)
The students will fill the
worksheet Vocabulary Inference
(attachment 5.4) This will be
corrected in class orally
Closing Activities
Learning Plan
Suggested Learning Activities:
The student will identify the main
Through the 5.4 Venn Diagram
idea and characters and setting
the student will compare and
through Think-Pair-Share. The
contrast based on the research
teacher with the help of the
project findings.
students will describe the
character on the board.
The student completes a
character comparison chart
after reading (see attachment:
5.4 Graphic Organizer –Venn
Line.
The students will complete an
exercise organizing the parts of
the reading response letter.
The exercise will be corrected
orally in class.
Write the first draft of the
Reading response letter
5.4 Vocabulary Inference
Formative Assessment
Materials
Homework
Differentiated Instruction
Strategies
___ Special Education.
___ LSP’
___ Section 504
___ Gifted
Teacher’s reflection
5.4 Venn Diagram
5.4 Venn Diagram, Attachment
5.4-Holiday Handouts:
Ramadan