Direct Instruction Lesson Plan Template

Grade Level/Subject: 2nd Grade Central Focus: Sequencing a text

Essential Standard/Common Core Objective: Standard RL.2.2- Determine Date submitted: Date taught: central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas. Daily Lesson Objective: Using a short fiction story that provides details to introduce sequencing events of a story using time order words: first, next, and last. Students will be able to put events in order, and use inference to determine what other events occurred. 21st Century Skills: Academic Language Demand (Language Function and Vocabulary): Sequencing; Essential Vocabulary- Sequencing; Syntax: using the components within the graphic organizer to sequence events in the story. Prior Knowledge: Based on the ELA CCSS RL.K, and RL.1, students should be able to retell familiar stories, including key details with prompting and support while determining central ideas or themes of a text. They should be able to determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas. Activity Description of Activities and Setting Lately you all have been reading books by the famous author Cynthia Rylant. Today we are going to read Mr. Griggs which is one of the many books she wrote. By looking at the title and cover of the book, what do you think this book might be about? Lets take a look at the last page of the book and see if we can infer anything from the text! What can we infer from the title of the book, and the last page of the book? Lets get started reading, and see if our predictions are right! I will explain that we will learn a new strategy to retell events of a story in sequential order to complete. After you practice, youll be able to put events of a story in sequential order. . Sequencing is a skill we use to help us comprehend what we are reading. Sequencing is the parts of a story, such as the beginning, middle, and end; it also helps retell the events within a story/passage in the order in which they occurred. We can use different types of graphic organizers to plot the sequence of events in a story. I will introduce and explain the graphic organizer that they will use to analyze the sequence of events from the passage. The teacher and students will brainstorm a list of daily events that require sequential order to complete, such as getting ready for school. For example: Graphic organizers help us plot the sequence of events in a story. Im going to draw a sample graphic organizer on the board and walk you through it. First thing I do when I start getting ready for school is get dressed, second I eat breakfast, and last I brush my teeth before leaving. I will model these steps for them in sequential order. I will begin reading the story Mr. Griggs, and will encourage the students to pay close attention and to listen carefully throughout the story. They should be able to retell the events of the story in correct order (first, next, and last). We will work together while reading the story to determine which events occur first, next, and last. We will confirm our answers with evidence from the text. We will write down the list of events that happened during the story, and ask for a volunteer to come and number the event that occurred first within the story and so on. After reading Mr. Griggs the students will be asked to go back to their desk. They will complete a graphic organizer worksheet (provided) on their own. The worksheet will have 4 different sequences of events, and Time

1. Focus and Review

2. Statement of Objective for Student

3. Teacher Input

4. Guided Practice

5. Independent Practice

they will be asked to number them in the correct order. They will choose first, next, and last by placing a 1, 2, or 3 beside the event that happened. 6. Assessment Methods of all objectives/skills: Full Mastery- all 4 of the components on the worksheet are correct Partial Mastery- 3 out of 4 components are correct No Mastery- 2 or less components are correct I will have the students come back to the floor and review the concept of sequence of events and ask each student to tell the class something that they learned from the lesson. What have we learned about sequencing? Students should be able to recognize the sequence of events within the story by summarizing what happened. They will be able to identify the events in the sequence that they appear in the story. What happened first in the book? Can someone tell me the last thing that happened?

7. Closure

8. Assessment Results of all objectives/skills: Targeted Students Modifications/Accommodations: Student/Small Group Modifications/Accommodations: Advanced Students will be challenged to think of an event to sequence. They can draw the events in the order of first, next, and last. They can be encouraged to write a sentence about each.

Materials/Technology:
(Include any instructional materials (e.g., worksheets, assessments PowerPoint/SmartBoard slides, etc.) needed to implement the lesson at the end of the lesson plan.)

Mr. Griggs by Cynthia Rylant White Board Worksheet (Graphic Organizer) http://www.gscdn.org/library/cms/23/9923.pdf Pencils Crayons

References: http://www.gscdn.org/library/cms/23/9923.pdf Reflection on lesson: