Lesson Plan Format:

Teacher: Shelbie Zukoski

Grade Level: 4th

I. Content and Standards: Standards for this lesson are aligned with the content, the
text and materials.
Content: Language Arts (Reading, Language, and Spelling)
Standards: Standard - 1.6.4.A: Listen critically and respond to others in small and
large group situations. Respond with grade level appropriate questions, ideas,
information, or opinions.
RF.A.2: Understand nonfiction appropriate to grade level
RF.B.3: Understand concepts and organization of nonfictional text.

II. Prerequisites: State the understanding and knowledge that is necessary for this
lesson.
Students should be able to read with understanding and have completed the prior
lessons on Animals Come Home to Our National Parks.
Students should understand what a subject is and be able to identify the subject/s of
a sentence.
III. Instructional Objective: Indicate what is to be learned and what you will teachthis must be a complete objective. Write this objective in terms of what an individual
student will do.
Students will use comprehension skills to respond to questions related to the text.
Students will be able to identify compound subjects within a sentence.
Students will be able to create their own sentences using compound subjects.
IV. Instructional Procedures: BDA Description of what you will do in teaching the
lesson, and, as appropriate, includes a description of how you will introduce the
lesson to the students (Before), what actual instructional techniques you will use
(During), and how you will bring closure to the lesson (After). Include what specific
things students will actually do during the lesson. In most cases, you will provide
some sort of summary for the students.
Before: I will begin the lesson telling the students that today we will be breaking
into groups and performing group reading of the story.
During: To start the students will pick from a jar of colored sticks. Students will
break up into their groups and read their story together. After the students read

their story we will complete a vocabulary review. Next students will complete page
18 in their A/O/B practice books. Once students are done we will move on to
language. Today in language we will be discussing compound subjects. I will explain
compound subjects to the class and we will complete practice examples together.
Students will then complete independent practice and do page 9 in their practice
books. After language arts we will move on to spelling. Today in spelling students
will complete page 17 in their practice books.
After: I will end the lesson by reviewing the story. I will also review what a
compound subject is and I will remind students to study their spelling words for
their test on Wednesday.
V. Materials and Equipment: List all materials and equipment to be used by both the
teacher and learner and how they will be used.
Reading textbook (for student and teacher)
Leveled practice book (A-O-B)
Spelling practice book
Language Arts textbook (for student and teacher)
Language arts practice book
VI. Assessment/Evaluation: Describe how you will determine the extent to which
students have attained the instructional objective. Be sure this part is directly
connected to the behavior called for in the instructional objective. Include rubric
where necessary. CONSIDER PORTFOLIOS AND PRESENTATIONS.
I will determine which students have attained the objective by checking their
practice books. Also observation of classroom discussion and oral reading.
VII. Accommodations or Modifications needed for students with disabilities or
ESOL: Indicate how other activities/materials will be used to reinforce and extend
this lesson and for whom. Include homework, assignments, and projects.
For the students who are struggling with text understanding I will have them work
with a partner when answering the think and compare questions. Leveled practice
(A-O-B) books are offered. After the class discussion of the answers to the practice
books I will talk with the students who are struggling about the answers to the
questions to ensure the student understands.
VIII. Technology: Describe which technology will be incorporated and describe how
technology will assist learning.
N/A
IX. Self-Assessment Determine here how you plan to collect information that will be
useful for planning future lessons. A good idea is to analyze the difference between

what you wanted (the objective) and what was attained (the results of the
assessment)
Do the students understand the meaning of the story? Are the students beginning to
elaborate on their answers? Do the students understand what a compound subject
is?