Lesson Plan : How to build a Burger
Teacher Name: | McVey |
Grade: | Grade 3 |
Subject: | Language Arts |
Topic: | Reading and Writing |
Content: | Topic Sentence, Main idea, Supporting details and facts, paragraph, summarize |
Goals: | Reading: Comprehension and Analysis of Grade Level Appropriate Text 2.5 Distinguish the main idea and supporting details in expository text. Writing: Organization and Focus 1.1 Create a single paragraph: a. Develop a Topic Sentence b. Include simple supporting facts and details |
Objectives: | -Identify the main idea of an expository text -Identify three supporting details from the expository text -Summarize the expository text using the main idea and three supporting details in one paragraph |
Materials: | Magnet Hamburger visual aid, labels: Main Idea, Supporting Details. |
Introduction: | With the burger visual aid on the whiteboard, explain that the main idea is like a hamburger. Ask for items that students like on a burger and equate them to supporting details. Noting that "the details on the burger give it its flavor". |
Development: | Using our hamburger model, we now use an example of What is my favorite pizza? Asking student for ideas and drawing it on the board. Then using a graphic organizer,with titles of "Main Idea" and "Supporting Details", with students suggestion we fill it in on the board with details to go with the main idea. |
Practice: | Students are given a page with 3 small paragraphs of expository text and a graphic organizer at the bottom to fill out to match the story. As a guided activity, the teacher directs the class in finding the main idea and supporting details. |
Accommodations: | Differentiated instruction: Using Kegans Cooperative Groups, SDAIE strategies are used to support EL, and Resources Students with special needs . (visuals, peer tutoring in groups, |
Checking For Understanding: | As a whole group, we go over the pages together to make sure all under stand how this is accomplished. |
Closure: | Today we used our hamburger model to learn that a story will have main idea and details to be complete ( and good to eat). "Tomorrow, we will be making our own hamburger to show us how to write a "delicious" hamburger." |
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