Inquiry (5E) Lesson Plan Template

Teachers:
Subject:
Grade:
Mrs.Naseer
ELA
3rd grade
Common Core State Standards:
Determine the main idea of a text; recount the key details and explain
how they support the main idea. (3.RI.2)

Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and

information clearly.
o Introduce a topic and group related information together; include illustrations
when useful to aiding comprehension.
o Develop the topic with facts, definitions, and details.
o Use linking words and phrases (e.g., also, another, and, more, but) to connect
ideas within categories of information.
o Provide a concluding statement or section. (3.W.2)
Determine the main ideas and supporting details of a text read aloud or information
presented in diverse media and formats, including visually, quantitatively, and orally.
(3.SL.2)

Objective (Explicit):
o SWBAT determine the main idea of a text by explaining how the detail supports the
main idea.
Evidence of Mastery (Measurable):
Include a copy of the lesson assessment.
Provide exemplar student responses with the level of detail you expect to see.
Assign value to each portion of the response

100% of students will be able determine the main idea of a text with 90% out of 100%
accuracy.
Sub-objectives, SWBAT (knowledge, skill, purpose):
How will you review past learning and make connections to previous lessons?
What skills and content are needed to ultimately master this lesson objective?
How is this objective relevant to students, their lives, and/or the real world?

SWBAT work independently and in a group setting.

SWBAT comprehend the story or passage given to them.
SWBAT recognize the details in the passage.
SWBAT write in complete sentence.
SWBAT refer back to the story for key details.
Key vocabulary:
Materials:
Supporting Details: A group of
Main Idea Organizer
important points in a story.
Story slips
Main idea: The most important point of a
Poster for presentation
story.
Main Idea Song
Computer
Pencil
worksheet
Engage
How will you activate prior knowledge?
How will you hook student attention?
What question will you pose, based on your objective, that students will seek to answer in Explore?

Teacher Will:
What comes to your mind when you
hear the word Main Idea and what a
supporting detail is?
Ask the students to stand up and walk
across the room and share it with a

Students Will:
Take a minute to think of what Main
idea means.
Walks across the room and share it
with two students.
Some students response to what a

peer.
Then ring the bell and have the students
all to return back to their seat.
Ask 4 students say what one of their
partner said and weather they agree or
not.

main idea is:

- The big part of the
story.
- What the story is
about.
- The meaning of the
story.
Some students response to what a
supporting detail mean is:
-Reasons that helped made up the
story.
-Examples to make the story come
together.
-Smaller points that helps make up
the story.
Students will return to their seats.
Refer back to what one of their
peers said and repeat it to the class
and weather they agree or not.

Explore
How will you model your performance expectations? (remember you are not modeling what you want students
to discover but need to model expected behavior or required procedures).
How will students take the lead and actively use materials to discover information that will help them answer
the question posed in the Engage?
What questions or prompts will you be prepared to use with students while they are exploring?

Teacher Will:
Mention to the students that
today we will be determining the
main idea of a passage.
Divided the students in pairs.
Hand out the cards to each
students.
Give the students about 8
minutes to work on it with their
partner.

Students Will:
Wait until they are divided into
groups by the teacher.
Quietly and quickly get with their
partner and sit down.
Work on the main idea activity with
their partner by highlightening the 3
supporting details and figuring out
the main idea.

Co-Teaching Strategy
What co-teaching approach will you use to maximize student achievement?

One teach and one observe

Differentiation Strategy
What accommodations/modifications will you provide for specific students?
How will you anticipate students that need an additional challenge?

Nicholas- will need to be grouped with someone who can keep him on task and
redirect him when he is having difficulties staying on task.
Dylan- will need someone to also be with someone who is welling to help him stay on
task when he gets distracted.
Explain
How will all students have an opportunity to share what they discovered?
How will you connect student discoveries to correct content terms/explanations?
How will all students articulate/demonstrate a clear and correct understanding of the sub-objectives by
answering the question from the Engage before moving on?
Teacher Will:
Students Will:

Ask the students that have the same

card number to pair up now.

Pair up the the other group that has

the same number as them.

Have the students share what they got

and why they got that answer.
Have one person in the group

Share what they got as the main

idea and why they think that.
Choose one member of the group to
share to the class why they got that.

Co-Teaching Strategy
What co-teaching approach will you use to maximize student achievement?

One teach and one observe

Differentiation Strategy
What accommodations/modifications will you provide for specific students?
How will you anticipate students that need an additional challenge?

Elaborate
How will students take the learning from Explore and Explain and apply it to a new circumstance or explore a
particular aspect of this learning at a deep level?
How will students use higher order thinking at this stage (e.g. A common practice in this section is to pose a
What If? Question)?
How will all students articulate how their understanding has changed or been solidified?

Teacher Will:
Go over the main idea powerpoint and
provide an example of ways students
can recognize supporting details.
Explain ways students can figure out
ways of finding out the main idea.
Go over the quiz online

Students Will:
Participate when asked during the
powerpoint.
Participate during the quiz.

Co-Teaching Strategy
What co-teaching approach will you use to maximize student achievement?

One teach and one observe

Differentiation Strategy
What accommodations/modifications will you provide for specific students?
How will you anticipate students that need an additional challenge?

Nicholas- will only have to highlight the supporting details and circle the main idea.
Dylan wil have to highlight and write the main idea.
Evaluate
How will all students demonstrate mastery of the lesson objective (though perhaps not mastery of the
elaborate content)?
How will students have an opportunity to summarize the big concepts they learned (separate from the
assessment)?

Teacher Will:
Ask the student to read the passage.
Ask the students to Highlight the
supporting details
Ask the students to write what the
main idea is and why?
Mention that today we were able to
determine the main idea of a passage.

Students Will:
Work queitly on their main idea
passage.

STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT DATA FORM

Attach or describe evaluative criteria for the lesson Analysis of Student Work/
(submit examples with lesson plan, if available). If
Achievement Data
examples of student work are not available, provide
Complete this section
a description of the work/outcomes expected in
after the lesson is
each category
complete.
Description of student Number of Students who
Exceeds
work that exceeds the Exceed:
Students will be able to
standard
Percent of Total Class:
find 3 supporting details Students will be able to Students:
and underline it and also find 3 supporting details
write what the main idea and underline it and also
is in complete sentence write what the main idea
also explain why they
is in complete sentence
think that is the main
also explain why they
idea.
think that is the main
idea.
Description of student Number of Students who
Meets
work that meets the Meet:
Students will be able to
standard
Percent of Total Class:
find 3 supporting detials Students will be able to Students:
and underline it and also find 3 supporting detials
write what the main idea and underline it and also
is in complete sentence. write what the main idea
is in complete sentence.
Description of student Number of Students Who
Approaches
work that approaches Approach:
Student will be able to
the standard
Percent of Total Class:
find 2 supporting detial Student will be able to
Students:
by highlighting it and
find 2 supporting detial
write what the main idea by highlighting it and
is in complete sentence. write what the main idea
is in complete sentence.
Description of student Number of Students who
Falls Far Below
work that falls far below Fall Far Below:
Students will be able to
the standard
Percent of Total Class:
find 2 supporting detials Students will be able to Students:
and mention what the
find 2 supporting detials
main idea is.
and mention what the
main idea is.

Reflection: Describe how you will use data collected and analyzed for this
lesson to inform future instructional decisions for each group of students (i.e.,
those who exceed, meet, approach AND fall far below the standard for meeting
the objective of the lesson.