Lesson+Plans

These are lessons planned using the Gradual Release of Responsiblity model of teaching and learning. I tend to teach predicting first, then summarising, then inferring, then questioning. You can use the order that makes sense for you and your students. There is no strict rule to the order of teaching comprehension skills. They all work together. The lessons below are not necessarily in order. Feel free to use them as they are or to adapt and change them to suit your class.

Predicting

Five Finger Rule

Words I know - This lesson helps students understand what 'knowing a word' means. It's hard for students to use the five finger rule if they don't know when they know a word and when they don't.

Book Reports / Summarising



About Me SL students - This helps teach students the words and concepts 'title' and 'author'

About Me Book - This is a book for SL students to complete and goes with the About Me lesson plan



Choosing Just Right Books News Reports

Inferring - making meaning with more than just the words on the page

Questions and Questioning (Oill Spill in the Mexican Gulf)

A PowerPoint with images to elicit what students know about the oil spill This goes with the Questions lesson plan above

Reading a Science Text



Reading Logs

Using Pictures to Help with Reading (This lesson plan could feed into lessons about using charts and diagrams when reading subject-based texts for higher level. Or it can help lower level students who are not using pictures to help their understanding.)

The Frog Prince PowerPoint to use with the Lesson Plan above (Using Pictures to Help with Reading)