Lesson Plan Template Sorting Document
Kindergarten
Essential Question
Common Core/Essential Standard
Essential Understandings
Learning Outcome
Pre-Assessment
Formative Assessment
Summative Assessment
Differentiation
Resources with 21st century skills/Future
Ready
Purposeful writing
How can I solve problems?
What can I learn from books?
RL K.1
With prompting and support, ask and answer
questions about details in a text.
Ask questions
Answer questions
Give details
Listening for information
SWBT :
*answer and ask questions about who, what,
where, when questions about a story
*draw a picture to show who was in the
story.
*tell what the story was about.
*draw or tell what happens next.
Alphabet checklist, Letter-sound checklist
Book and print assessment
NC Phonemic Awareness Assessment
Aimsweb (LNF, LSF)
Drawings
Individual conferences
Peer conferences
Teacher observations
Small group observations
Drawings, think-pair-share
Alphabet checklist
Letter-sound checklist
Book and print assessment
NC Phonemic Awareness Assessment
Drawings
Individualized instruction and support
(providing instruction on their level: leveled
books, multiple readings of familiar books,
pre-reading strategies, small groups)
Peer-partnerships/buddy reading
United Streaming/ Youtube video,
Tumblebooks,
Global connection projects
journals, grocery lists (writing integrated
centers),
Real world connections
First Grade
Essential Question
Common Core/Essential Standard
Essential Understandings
Learning Outcome
Pre-Assessment
How are people and animals important to one
another and our community?
RL 1.1
Ask and answer questions about key details in a
text.
Character/setting/events
Cause/effect
Sequence
How to ask questions
Locating text evidence
SWBT Ask and answer questions about character,
setting, and events (details, cause/effect) and
sequence beginning, middle, and end. SWBT
complete a story map identifying character,
setting, and major events
DRA
Fresh Reads
AimsWeb
Story map
Formative Assessment
Class discussion/observations (questions)
Dry Erase Boards
Conferences and Interviews
Story map (whole/partner/independent)
Summative Assessment
Skill specific assessment
Multiple Choice/Open ended response with rubric
Story map (independent) with rubric
Guided reading groups
Different leveled sight words/vocabulary
Scaffold/Choice literary stations
Word banks for story mapping
Question prompt cards (teacher-created)
Differentiation
Resources with 21st century skills/Future Ready
Purposeful writing
Visual Presentations using flip cameras/iPads
Global connection projects
Interactive notebooks (two column notes: text/think)
Open ended response with evidence from the text
Real world connections
Second Grade
Essential Question
Common Core/Essential Standard
Essential Understandings
Learning Outcome
Pre-Assessment
Formative Assessment
Summative Assessment
Differentiation
Resources with 21st century skills/Future Ready
Purposeful writing
How can we learn from exploring places and
things?
RL 2.1
Ask and answer such questions as who, what,
where, when, why, and how to demonstrate
understanding of key details in a text.
Character/setting/events
Cause/effect
Sequence
How to ask questions
Locating text evidence
SWBT Ask and answer questions about details about the
character, main idea (who, what, where, when, why,
how) SWBT complete a story map identifying
character, setting, and major events SWBT create
a character map
Aimsweb
Spelling Pretest
STAR
Story map
Class discussion/observations (questions)
Dry Erase Boards
Conferences and Interviews
Story/Character map (whole/partner/independent)
Weekly Vocabulary, Spelling, Comprehension Tests
Open ended tests using rubric
Story map/Character Map (independent)
Spelling Tests/Vocabulary (modified/challenged)
Read Aloud Weekly Tests
Word Bank for open ended/graphic organizers
Word banks for story/character mapping
Question prompt cards (teacher-created)
Visual Presentations using flip cameras/iPADS
Global connection projects
Interactive notebooks/two column notes (text/thinking)
Open ended response with evidence from the text
Real world connections
Third Grade
Essential Question
Common Core/Essential Standard
Essential Understandings
Learning Outcome
Pre-Assessment
Formative Assessment
Summative Assessment
Differentiation
Resources with 21st century skills/Future
Ready
Purposeful writing
How can our actions affect others in our community?
RL 3.3 Describe characters in a story (e.g., their traits,
motivations, or feelings) and explain how their actions
contribute to the sequence of events.
Character traits/motivations/feelings
Sequence of events
Understand description, motivation, traits
Cause and effect of actions on events in the story
SWBT Demonstrate understanding the sequence of events
in a story, identify major/minor characters, and describe
characters by citing their traits,
motivations, and emotions by: creating a story map citing
text evidence, create a cause/effect chart of character
actions and events, create a story mountain/plot diagram
map, create a venn diagram comparing and contrasting a
major and minor character, create a character map citing
motivations/feelings/traits
Common Core Pretest Assessment
Aimsweb
Story/character/plot map
Cause/effect graphic organizer
Open ended response
ThinkGate
Class discussion/observations (questions)
Dry Erase Boards
Conferences and Interviews
Story/character/plot map (whole/partner/small group)
Cause/effect graphic organizer (whole/partner/small
group)
Open ended response (journals)
Exit tickets
Teacher created quizzes
Fresh Reads from Reading Street
Skill Specific Assessments
Open ended response with rubric
Story/character/plot mapping (independent)
Guided reading groups
Intervention/enrichment homogenous groups with school
wide support
Differentiated vocabulary for at risk students
Word Bank for open ended/graphic organizers
Word banks for story/character mapping
Question prompt cards (teacher-created)
Multimedia Presentations including research
Flip Cameras
Create a voki or major characters and their
traits/feelings/motivations
Interactive notebooks
Open ended response with evidence from the text
Real world connections