5 School Lesson Plan Template
Dates: February 17 – February 21
READING
Objective & TEKS
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Genre: Informational Text
TEKS: 4.10 & 4.11
Obj: We will analyze, make inferences, and
draw conclusions about informational text
and provide evidence to support our
understanding.
Product: I will analyze, make inferences, and
draw conclusions about informational text
and provide evidence to support my
understanding.
Procedure
Interactive Read Aloud: The Edible Schoolyard
from Journeys Unit 4 Lesson 19.
-Using your (TEKS 4.10 & 4.11), you will need to
prepare deep comprehension questions,
discussion stems, or opportunities for students to
share their thinking during the read aloud.
-Prepare sticky notes with the questions and
place them on the appropriate page in a Student
Book you will use for your IRA. (There are
questions on pg. 77 of your CLLG.)
-- Create the Informational Text Anchor Chart
with your students. Your Anchor chart should
include a working definition, noticings (author’s
purpose, graphic features, text features, main
idea, details, text structure, facts, and opinions)
and book examples you complete using your
IRA mentor text.
(see handouts for details)
Students read independent informational
selections from Journeys or the leveled readers
from your adoption. 4th grade has a TON of
informational texts listed on pgs 108-109 in the
CLLG.
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Genre: Informational Text
TEKS: 4.11A
Obj: We will summarize the main idea and
supporting details in text in ways that
maintain meaning.
Minilesson: Main Idea
Product: I will summarize the main idea and
supporting details in text in ways that
maintain meaning using the graphic
organizer and my independent text.
Text: The Edible Schoolyard
Genre: Informational Text
TEKS: 4.11C
Obj: We will describe explicit and implicit
relationships among ideas in texts.
Product: I will describe explicit and implicit
relationships among ideas in texts using the
practice paragraphs.
–USE Main Idea
Lesson Overview for
Expository Text
(see handouts for details)
-Create the Main Idea Anchor Chart with your
students.
 Use preplanned stopping points to
determine the main idea of paragraph(s)
and then the entire selection using the
Main Idea graphic organizer with your
students
(see handouts for details)
Students use their independent informational
text to complete the Main Idea graphic
organizer in their Reader’s Notebook or on the
handout provided.
Minilesson: Text Structure: Organizational
Patterns in Text
***PLEASE REFER TO DETAILED
HANDOUT: INTRODUCTION TO TEXT
STRUCTURES & ORGANIZATIONAL
PATTERNS. THIS GIVES YOU STEP-BY-STEP
DIRECTIONS ON HOW TO TEACH THIS
MINILESSON!***
-Create the Text Structures & Organizational
Patterns Anchor Chart with your students using
the examples from the handouts.
(see handouts for details)
Students complete the Practice Paragraph
activity for EACH structure in cooperative
learning groups.
***YOU WILL NEED TO MAKE COPIES OF
THE PARAGRAPHS, depending on how you
choose to structure the activity!***
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Genre: Informational Text
TEKS: 4.11C
Obj: We will describe explicit and implicit
relationships among ideas in texts (sequential)
Product: I will describe explicit and implicit
relationships among ideas in texts
(sequential) by answering a STAAR
formatted question using our shared text.
Minilesson: Text Structures/Organizational
Patterns – Sequential
***PLEASE REFER TO DETAILED
HANDOUT: TEXT STRUCTURES &
ORGANIZATIONAL PATTERNSSEQUENCE. THIS GIVES YOU STEP-BYSTEP DIRECTIONS ON HOW TO TEACH
THIS MINILESSON!***
Text: The Trail of Tears
You will need to download this text from our
website under the STAAR Lesson Plans link.
-Add the sequential information to the Text
Structures & Organizational Patterns Anchor
Chart with your students using the examples
from the handouts for this lesson.
(see handouts for details)
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Genre: Informational Text
TEKS: 4.11C
Obj: We will describe explicit and implicit
relationships among ideas in texts (cause &
effect))
Product: I will describe explicit and implicit
relationships among ideas in texts (cause &
effect) by answering a STAAR formatted
question using our shared text.
Students complete STAAR formatted question
for the shared text used during the Minilesson.
There is a handout with these questions for you
to use as their product for each text structure
following that day’s lesson. Student responses
can be recorded on the handout.
Minilesson: Text Structures/Organizational
Patterns – Cause & Effect
***PLEASE REFER TO DETAILED
HANDOUT: TEXT STRUCTURES &
ORGANIZATIONAL PATTERNSSEQUENCE. THIS GIVES YOU STEP-BYSTEP DIRECTIONS ON HOW TO TEACH
THIS MINILESSON!***
Text: Butterflies at Risk
You will need to download this text from our
website under the STAAR Lesson Plans link.
-Add the cause & effect information to the Text
Structures & Organizational Patterns Anchor
Chart with your students using the examples
from the handouts for this lesson.
(see handouts for details)
Students complete STAAR formatted question
for the shared text used during the Minilesson.
There is a handout with these questions for
you.