Lesson Plan

Day: M T W T F Date: 28/9/17 Time: 12:15 Year: 3

Learning Area: English

Topic: Inferring

Australian Curriculum Content Description: (see ACARA or SCASA)

- Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning and begin to evaluate text by drawing on a growing
knowledge of context, text structures and language features (ACELY1680)

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Asia and Australias engagement

Cross-curriculum priorities: histories and cultures with Asia
Sustainability

General Critical and Ethical Personal and Intercultural

Literacy Numeracy ICT
capabilities: creative thinking behaviour social capability understanding

Students prior knowledge and experience:

Reading comprehension strategies: making connections; inferring, finding the main idea.

Teaching purpose:

Re-learning inferring to improve student comprehension skills.

Learning objectives: (What will students know and be
able to do at the completion of the lesson specific, concise
and attainable objectives. Use relevant taxonomies.)
On completion of this lesson, students will be able
to:
Define inferring.
Establish clues/evidence in stories.
Make inferring statements.
Assessment: (For each learning objective, state how you will
assess the degree to which the objective has been achieved.
What will be the evidence of the learning? Consider formative
and, if appropriate, summative assessment strategies)
Class discussion.
Guided reading with questioning
Inferring statements on worksheet.
Preparation and Resources:
- Set of detective magnifying glasses
- Inferring definition and puzzle diagram.
- Reading book The Sack Man
- Worksheet for The Sack Man
- Class set of pencils
- Class set of laptops/iPad

Catering for diversity

Two sizes of magnifying glasses for students to choose from

Varying the number of pages to complete in the book reading

Have a 2nd book with an easier storyline.

Extra teacher assistance to those still struggling.

Timing Learning experiences

Introduction:

- Looking at new reading strategy Inferring

- What is inferring (question class if they remember from Term 1)
- What do they think it means?
- Definition on board. inferring is like being a detective! Use what you see plus what you know to figure
5mins out what the author is trying to tell you.
- When we are being detectives we are looking for clues to work out something that hasnt been explained.
- Otherwise known as reading between the lines.

Main:

- Read The Sack Man book to class 1-3 page

- Questioning students to look for the clues.
5mins - Modelling the first page.
- Guided Reading.

Use A3 paper/board to map the storyline out for the class.

Give out handout for students to complete the rest of the storyline on.

Lesson Reflection;