Teacher Resources for Instructional Planning


Grade 6, Reading and Language Arts Standard #: 10 Apply strategies to comprehend textual/informational and functional materials. Using prior knowledge Setting purposes for reading Interpreting author’s meaning Confirming the author’s message Making generalizations

Lesson Plans: Air Traffic Logic Using reasoning skills and a grid to solve a logic puzzle Reading a Fable Using critical thinking skills to comprehend a fable. Choose Your Own Experience: A Hypertext Writing Experience A lesson in writing your own "Choose Your Own Adventure" story Life-Size Characters Creating visual representation of characters for character analysis

Resources: Glencoe/McGraw-Hill Lion and the Woman Interactive reading lesson Hurricane: Storm Science Comprehending the mishaps of a hurricane Inference Notes Graphing the concept of inference Suggestions for English Language Learners: ESL Ideas (B=Beginning, I=Intermediate, T=Transitional) (B, I) Students indicate understanding by raising their hand as they follow simple sequence (2-3) events in a story. (B, I) Students copy repetitive words in a paragraph. (I, T) Students recall and tell information from story read (characters, details, setting). (I, T) Students participate in cloze exercises (where a word or words are omitted from a written sentence then supplied by the student). (T) Students identify orally or in writing the beginning, middle, and end of a story they have read or written. (T) Teacher models SQ3R study strategy (Scan, Question, Read, Write and Review) for taking notes. Students scan the chapter and make questions out of bold headings; then read the text under heading and write the answer to the question; then review questions and answers.
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