Shared Reading 5 Day Lesson Plan

Programming

Module 4: Literacy/Numeracy

Title of Lesson:

Grade 4: Habitat Destruction (Shared

Reading)
Key Understanding:
Humans have an impact on the
environment, and our actions can affect
animal and plant populations.
Assessment:
Organize information in a graphic organizer.
Explain how humans have and impact on
the environment with their various actions.
- Skit
- Poster
- Written passage
Prior Knowledge:
KWL Chart
Predict what the article will be about before
they start reading (based on title)
Teaching Focus/Curriculum Expectations
Students will:
Language:
1.6 extend understanding of texts by connecting
the ideas in them to their own knowledge,
experience, and insights, to other familiar texts,
and to the world around them

Teaching
Strategies:
Comprehension
Strategies:
Levels of
Questioning:

Science:
1.1 analyze the positive and negative impacts of
human interactions with natural habitats and
communities
2.5 use appropriate science and technology
vocabulary.
3.8 explain why changes in the environment have a
greater impact on specialized species than on
generalize species
Think-Aloud
Modeled reading & concept map
Questioning
Activating Prior Knowledge
Making Connections
Knowledge
Application
Synthesis
Concept Map

Graphic
Organizers:
Collaborative
Graffiti
Learning
Inside-Out Circle
Strategies:
Materials/Preparation In Danger of Extinction (Informational Text)
for Teaching:
Habitat Destruction (Informational Text)

Shannon Walsh

s.walsh@queensu.ca

Shared Reading 5 Day Lesson Plan

Programming

Differentiated
Instruction:
Day 1:
Before
Reading

During
Reading
After
Reading
Day 2:
Before
Reading
During
Reading
After
Reading
Day 3:
Before
Reading
During
Reading
After
Reading

Module 4: Literacy/Numeracy

Centres (individual, small groups, and

guided reading).
Differentiated Assessment (Choice)
Instruction

Identify characteristics of an informational text and

fiction. By looking at In Danger of Extinction, guide
students through whether this is informational or fiction.
Look at various text features. After reading the title,
looking at bolded words, and looking at images, MODEL
(think aloud) what you think the text might be about.
Create a KWL chart together, writing down what we
know, what we WANT to know.
Modelled reading
Think Aloud (focus on Making Connections text-text,
text-self, text-world)
Shared reading: Have students read aloud together
Fill in the LEARNED column of the KWL chart.
Concept Map: Making Connections (as a class)
Revisit In Danger of Extinction. Ask students what the
main idea of the story was.
Introduce Habitat Destruction (informational text, look
at text features).
Read Aloud & Think Aloud
Venn Diagram (compare the two texts).
Revisit the two texts, and the comparisons between the
two.
Habitat Destruction: think about the main idea, and
focus on Text to World connections.
Break off into groups Individual, Small Groups, and
Guided reading.
Have students read through the new text, make textself, text-text, text-world connections.
Identify impacts that humans have on ecosystems.
Identify one step to help habitats from being destroyed
[e.g. raise awareness]

Day 4:
Work on task (skit, poster, written) about the impact that humans have
on ecosystems.
Extensions:
- Pick a local issue where humans have been destroying habitats, and

Shannon Walsh

s.walsh@queensu.ca

Shared Reading 5 Day Lesson Plan

Programming

Module 4: Literacy/Numeracy

look into ways that we could STOP.

- Go to a local conservation area/protected area/national park FIELD
TRIP and understand what conservation areas do and why they are
important.
Reflection

Shannon Walsh

s.walsh@queensu.ca