Metro School Lesson Plan
Teacher : Katti Koehl and
Tammy Cox
Date:
3/24 - 3/28
Grade:
9-11
Content Area: Language Arts
Objective/Essential Question:
-Students will identify the main idea, setting, and main characters
-Students will support their opinion with pre-generated facts
-Students will participate in Chapter 3 through the use of adaptive
devices and answering comprehension questions.
-Students will sequence the events of the chapter.
-Students will identify vocabulary words
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Physical Skills:Fine Motor, Large Motor
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Cognitive Skills: Recalling basic information from the story and
answering WH questions. Sequencing events. Locating the
title and author. Identifying vocabulary from the story.
Hypothesizing what the story might be about by looking at
pictures and listening to the title. Writing journal entries using
pictures to assist.
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Social Skills (learning teams):Collaborating in teams during
small group activities built into the lesson. Completing group
projects/ worksheets. Turn taking. Listening.
Curriculum Standard
-Demonstrate understanding of
text while actively engaged in
reading or listening to literary
non-fiction for clearly stated
purpose.
-Demonstrate knowledge of
new vocabulary drawn from
English language arts, math,
and science content.
-Initiate and participate in
communicative exchanges.
-Write a claim.
-Write the topic.
Technology
Smart board
AAC devices
Boardmaker symbols
Plan for Differentiation:
Using Bloom’s Revised
Taxonomy
21st Century Skills
Students will actively
participate in the lesson by
using the Smartboard and
utilizing their AAC devices.
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Materials
Vocabulary cards
Worksheets
Smartboard lessons
The book The Outsiders
AAC devices
Data Sheets
Picture cards
Vocabulary (Literacy)
Outsider
Lesson Procedures
Review(Links to Prior Knowledge, Anticipatory Set):
The students will review that every book has a title and an author. They will identify each for the
book The Outsiders. The students will review Chapters 1-2 and discuss the main characters, setting,
repeated story line and facts of the story.
What the teacher will do:
The teacher will read the title and give students an opportunity to point to/say the title, read the
author’s name and give students an opportunity to say/point to author’s name, model opening
the book and have students do the same thing, have students turn the page, ask a prediction
question and give each student an opportunity to answer, point to each word in a chosen
sentence while reading aloud, have each student point to the words as reading a chosen line,
have students identify the repeated story line, have students identify vocabulary words in text and
after given a definition,have students sequence the story through pictures, provide journal writing
opportunities and assess students based on comprehension questions.
What the teacher assistants will do:
Teacher assistants will assist students in assessing the materials used in the lesson and be attentive
to any behavioral or disruptive concerns. They will also take data when needed.
Guided/Independent Practice
Each student will review the previous vocabulary words and identify the vocabulary word outsider
in Chapter 3. They will state their opinions on journal writing activities and support them with pregenerated facts.
Assessment/Check for Understanding
The students will be assessed on individual IEP goals and objectives and/or on their ability to
correctly identify comprehension questions and complete activities.
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Closure/Summary
Remind students that we are able to make connections to the characters and their stories. How
does the story The Outsiders apply in the school, in the community, and in the world?
Reflection
(after teaching the
lesson)
Comments
Differentiation
Low
1
High
2
5
3
4
Student
Engagement
Low
High
1
2
3
4
5
Data
Collection
Low
High
1
2
5
3
4
Higher Level
Question
Low
High
1
2
5
3
4
Lesson Effectiveness
Low
1
What would you do differently and what worked well?
2
High
3
4
5