Teacher Resources for Instructional Planning


Grade 8, AL COS Std #: 1 Apply appropriate strategies to material across the curriculum to construct meaning through interpretation and evaluation. Examples: using monitoring strategies, correcting or confirming author’s message, distinguishing fact from opinion, confirming author’s credentials, confirming intention and validity of message, using context clues, drawing conclusions, determining cause and effect, determining sequence of events, identifying main idea and supporting details

Lesson Plans: Myth and Truth: The "First Thanksgiving" Examine and create strategies to uncovering the truth of the "First Thanksgiving" Slanted Sentences Looking for bias "The Wish Giver": Cause and Effect Identify cause and effect through the novel The Process of Sequencing A picture card game The Boston Tea Party: Costume Optional? What really happened at the Boston Tea Party Life-Size Characters Creating visual representation of characters for character analysis

Resources: Glencoe/McGraw-Hill link to Project Gutenberg Collection of free electronic books Language Experience Approach Charts for incorporating experiences with written word 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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