Student Teaching edTPA Lesson Plan Template

Subject: Central Focus:

ELA Summarizing informational text
Essential Standard/Common Core Objective:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.3.2:
"Determine the main idea of a text; recount the key Date submitted: Date taught:
details and explain how they support the main
idea.”
Daily Lesson Objective:
Students will be able to analyze an informational text and create a summary for the text.
21st Century Skills: Academic Language Demand (Language Function and
Communication Vocabulary):
Critical thinking Summary

Prior Knowledge:
Be able to find main idea.
Finding most important information in a passage.

Activity Description of Activities and Setting Time

-Gather students on the carpet. 5min
-Tell students they will be learning how to summarize an informational text
using an Anchor Chart treasure map summary organizer.
1. Focus and Review
- “what is a summary?”
-A summary included the major points of a story or passage.
-We will read the Anchor Chart.
Today will be using the Treasure Map Summary Organizer to support us in 2 min
2. Statement of Objective
finding the summary of our text. You will be able summarize a given text with
for Student
80% accuracy at the end of the lesson.
-Teacher will pull up the Treasure Map Summary organizer on the smart 15 min
board.
-Teacher will read “Force” Thinking aloud as you read. Pointing out key
words and phrases that may help you write a summary.
-After reading, teacher will model a summary using the treasure map
summary organizer and the treasure map lined paper.
-We will follow the path and arrows as we summarize our text. We will focus
3. Teacher Input on the main idea, key words and phrases, and important supporting details as
we summarize on the lined paper.
- I will reread a couple times, making sure the summary is accurate.
-once completed, we will reread one more time.
“Did we include the main idea? Did we paraphrase and borrow key words and
phrases to write the supporting details? Did we follow the organizer to write
the summary?

15 min
-“I will be reading a second story to you guys and you will help me write a
summary.
“remember we are paraphrasing as well as focusing on the main idea, key
4. Guided Practice words, and phases to compose the important supporting details.
When I finish reading, I will follow the treasure map and the students will
help me write the summary. We will reread and edit until the summary is
accurate.
Make sure students understand the summary map before independent practice.
 15 min
-We will reread the treasure map poem to motivate students to work
independently.
5. Independent Practice -I will pass out lines paper, summary organizer, and a passage.
“you are going to read the passage and write a summary using the summary
map.

6. Assessment Methods of
As students are working independently I will be walking around observing.
all objectives/skills:

Divide the class into groups of 4 to share their summaries. 5 min

Ask students if they would like to share to the class. Peers will have share
questions and comments about the summaries.
7. Closure
To end the lesson, have students include what they have to include in a non-
fiction informational summary.

8. Assessment Results of
all objectives/skills:

Targeted Students Modifications/Accommodations Student/Small Group Modifications/Accommodations

-Variation in independent passages.
-Teacher support during independent practice.

Materials/Technology:
Overall 3 passages.
Summary treasure map (1 per student)
Lined paper ( 1 per student)
Reflection on lesson:

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