Reading Direct Instruction Lesson Plan Grade Level/Subject: 4/Reading Topic: meaning

Rationale: Teacher requested that I teach this lesson plan. The independent work was changed due to not aligning with the TI and GI. It is also important that students are aware that everything they do has an effect whether it is good or bad. ELA CCSS: RL.4.4 Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including those that allude to significant characters found in mythology (e.g. Herculean.) Behavioral Objective: Student will be able to pick out the cause or the effect from the passage getting 3 out 4 correctly in order to have mastery. Prerequisite Knowledge & Skills: knowledge: students will have already read Daedalus and Icarus difference between cause and effect Materials/Resources: Imagine it Daedalus and Icarus retold by Geraldine MeCaughrean Power point Dead Zone- by weekly reader- ReadWorks- see email Worksheet Focus/Review: We will be playing a vocabulary game. (Reviewing the vocabulary before the test) The teacher will have a cube with all different sides spelling, definition, and sentence, whats the word, acronym, and synonym.TW roll the dice children have to write the answer down on their whiteboard and raise it up when their done. (Vocabulary is on page 106 in imagine it book) Objective (as stated for students): Students will reference a text to complete the selection and will identify cause/effect relationships Teacher Input TW assist students with completing the following cause/affect chart: (Teacher will do the green in TI) Boys and girls lets reread the story we read yesterday. This time however were going to learn about cause and effect. Cause and Effect is when you break the events into two different parts. The cause is WHY something happens and effect is WHAT happens because of the cause. Usually when we read we can pick up key words that will help us find the cause like because, as a result of, why, if, so, so that, and reason. Cause and effect is done during and after reading and it also important that the students are aware that everything they do has an effect whether it is good or bad. TW read the 1st page. Now lets go back to the chart under Effect it says Daedalus was unhappy . The statement before says but it was a prison so that is my cause. Now it will not always be exactly the words right before, it could be a summary. Teacher will than demonstrate the rest up till the purple.

Cause WHY something happens Because he was prisoners He wanted to be free like the birds Daedalus places sticky wax on Icaruss shoulders. The sea gulls pecked at Icarus angrily They had everything they needed Daedalus and Icarus were flying Icarus was determined to outfly the sun He wanted to out fly the sun.

Effect WHAT happens Daedalus was unhappy Daedalus begged the bird for a feather each night Daedalus warns Icarus about the heat. Icarus flies out the window. Icarus flew higher than the birds Icarus was content being a prisoner The guards looked up in astonishment The heat started to melt the wax The wax softened, trickled, and dripped

Guided Practice- SW fill out the rest of the chart in groups of 2-3. We will join together when everyone is done and go over chart. (The purple will be filled out by the students) Independent Practice- Each Student will be given the passage Dead Zone and will have to fill the following chart independently. (Green is the answer) Cause Why something happened Pollution and Fertilizer from farms across the Midwest wash into the Mississippi River and flow into the Gulf of Mexico. Algae takes all the oxygen Effect What happened Huge Algae formed

Sea creatures cant survive

This years dead zone Shark Attack

Shark Attack Tooth fish came in contact with human swimmers

Closure: Students will do a speed dating that is when the students are paired and they have to listen and talk about the topic and switch partners after 30-45 sec. In this activity the students have to tell their partner a quick cause and effect sentence and the other person has to determine what is the cause and what is the effect.

Differentiation- ESL/struggle readers will get a copy of the cause/effect chart to fill out and staple in their notebook as well as the teacher will have a focus group with them to help out with the harder words in the passage.

Sources: The instructor from my clinical experience