NCATE RUBRICS
READING PROGRAM AREA
COMMON ASSIGNMENT:
EXPOSITORY TEXT LESSON PLAN
ASSIGNMENT GUIDESHEET
For the content area lesson plan, you may select material from a content area textbook or an information/expository trade book. You will need to make a concept map which identifies the important information/concepts that you want the students to learn. The content area lesson plan should include a pre-reading activity, a during reading activity, a post reading activity, and an assessment activity. The strategies and activities that you choose will depend on the grade level, the students you are teaching, the text, the objectives of the lesson, and the recommendations of your cooperating teacher. The following guidelines are meant to assist you in fulfilling this assignment.
Text: The lesson plan should begin with the bibliographic information (APA style), a summary, and the readability of the text being used for the lesson plan.
Audience: The lesson plan should include a detailed description of the audience for which it is being prepared. Information should include grade level, age, gender, developmental and instructional needs of the students, information about the students that affects the instructional plan (e.g., ADHD, speech therapy, Title I, vision, hearing, etc.), and a modifications plan that addressess those special needs.
Goals/Purpose: (Broad) The lesson plan should include clearly stated goals. The goals should incorporate higher levels of learning and should be infused throughout the lesson.
Objectives: (Specific) The objectives that you want your student to know after you teach the lesson.
Michigan Content Standards: The English Language Arts Content Standards and the content area standards that are addressed in the lesson plan should be identified.
Lesson Plan: The lesson plan should follow the pre-reading, during reading, and after reading format of a reading lesson. The lesson plan should be creative and engaging. It should incude copies of charts, handouts, worksheets, and assessments.
Prereading Activity:
Prereading activities motivate and prepare students to read the text by developing their background knowledge and
vocabulary. Select one or more of the following activities/strategies or any activity/strategy that has been taught in
class.
Anticipation Guides
Clusters, Webs, and Maps
Exclusion Brainstorming
K-W-L Chart
Prereading Plan (PReP)
SQ3R Study Strategy
During Reading Activity:
During reading activities are those activities/strategies that help children monitor their own comprehension of the
text. Using these activities/strategies helps the students sustain comprehension and trouble shoot for any problems
that are occurring. Select one or more of the following activities/strategies to suit the needs of your students and the
text you are teaching. You may also choose any activity/strategy that has been taught in class.
Directed Reading-Thinking Activity
Guided Reading
Shared Reading
Directed Listening-Thinking Activity
SQ3R
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Post Reading Comprehension and Response Activities:
Post reading comprehension and response activities teach strategies that assist the students in their comprehension
of the text as well as provide feedback to you as to how well the students understood the text. You are also
encouraging the students to respond to the text emotionally and critically. Select an activity from Part A and Part B
to meet these goals.
Part A: Comprehension Activity
Completion of the final part of a prereading activity.
Activities which teach specific comprehension skills such as cause and effect, sequence, compare/contrast, summarization.
Informational Text Map
Graphic Organizer
Reciprocal Questioning
SQ3R
Part B: Response Activity
Cubing
Data Charts
Double-Entry Journals
Grand Conversations
Quickwrites/Quickdraws
Read Arounds
Readers’ Theatre
Reading Logs
Sketch-to-Stretch
Venn Diagrams
Reader Response Journals
Assessment Activity
Develop an assessment activity that demonstrates whether the students learned to concepts being taught. The
following activities may fulfill this requirement.
Close Procedure
Learning Logs
Draw-Label-Write
Structured Expository Paragraph