- Unit 1
- Level 1
- T1 minutes
- Note-taking, Close Reading
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Standards Addressed:
- L.3.4
- RL.3.2
- RL.3.3
- W.3.3
Lesson Materials/Resources
Objectives
- I can identify the main message or lesson of a story using key details from the text. (RL.3.2)
- I can describe the characters in a story (their traits, motivations, feelings). (RL.3.3)
- I can describe how a character’s actions contribute to the events in the story. (RL.3.3)
- I can document what I learn about a topic by sorting evidence into categories. (W.3.8)
- I can follow our class norms when I participate in a conversation. (SL.3.1b)
- I can identify the main message of Nasreen’s Secret School by reading the text closely.
- I can describe what Nasreen wanted and what she did.
- I can sort key details from Nasreen’s Secret School into categories.
- I can discuss how the main message is conveyed through key details.
Assessment/CFU
• Close Read recording form (parts 1 and 2)
• Conversation Criteria checklist
Opening/Warmup/Connecting Prior Knowledge
A. Engaging the Reader and Building Fluency: Read-aloud of Nasreen’s Secret School (5 minutes)
• Gather students in a circle. Remind students of the important reading work they did with Rain School. Invite individual students to turn and talk about the steps they took to read that text closely. Re-orient them to the Anchor Chart: Close Read recording form for Rain School.
• Tell them that today, you will be doing the same process, but with a new text, about a child going to school in a new place.
• Distribute Nasreen’s Secret School to students. Project Nasreen’s Secret School and read aloud. Tell students that the text will be projected for them, and they should read along in their own text.
• Remind students that the purpose of this read-aloud is simply to acquaint them with the text. Students should listen, enjoy, and follow the flow of the story. Do NOT aid students in comprehension at this point through questioning or discussion.
• Read slowly, fluently, without interruption, as students follow along in their own text.
B. Unpacking the Learning Targets (5 minutes)
• Direct students to the learning target “I can discuss how the main message of Nasreen’s Secret School is conveyed through key details.” Circle the word discuss. Invite students to share what this word means. Remind students that in reading closely the text Rain School, they talked about their ideas with one another, following class norms for conversation. Review the class norms for conversation with the class, emphasizing speaking in complete sentences, looking one another in the eye, and giving everyone a chance to speak.
• Remind students that today, as they work with their groups, you will be listening in to start to assess how well they are collaborating with their peers.
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