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Direct Instruction Lesson Preparation Worksheet

(Thinking about the lesson)


Teacher Candidate: Kristin Foster
Title of Lesson: Finding the main idea and details of a nonfiction article
Grade Level: 3rd
Teaching Setting: PLEX Center Classroom
Content Area: Literacy
1. Lesson Topic
Main Objective of Instruction: What do you want the student(s) to learn? How does this lesson
relate to real-life?
o Students will be able to highlight to demonstrate their ability to find the main
idea and supporting details in a grade level text.
Supporting Objectives: What other skills will your students achieve (i.e. sub-skills, working in
groups, cooperating, learning how to use the library, etc.)?
o Students will be able to find information about their chosen planet.
What Content Standards(s) and/or EEOs will this lesson address?
o Content Area: Reading, Writing, and Communicating Standard: 2. Reading for All
Purposes
1. Strategies are needed to make meaning of various types of literary genres
c. Use Integration of Knowledge and Ideas to:
ii. Summarize central ideas and important details from literary text
How does this relate to what students are currently learning in general education?
o The students will be working on finding the main idea throughout their third
grade year and whole school career. The unit in third grade is a unit about planets.
Are there IEP goals to consider? Identify them.
o Ellis will increase his reading comprehension by retelling a story with supporting details.
Objective 1: Ellis will use a graphic organizer to retell a story, using beginning, middle, and end sequence
without using visual cues from the story at least 80% of the time.
Objective 2: Ellis will use a graphic organizer to write a 5-8 sentence paragraph retelling the story with at
least 2 supporting details from the story with only 3-5 verbal prompts.

2. Planning for individual differences:


Consider the potential learning range of your students. What UDL strategies could you include in
your lesson?
o I am going to create a very informative checklist so that way the steps are easy to
follow. I will then also use tones of reenactment visuals so students can learn the concepts as
well as color coded visuals so that students can understand the text. I will show them a model of
the solar system online.
o http://www.solarsystemscope.com/
o I will teach hand motions along with the steps.
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What background knowledge do the students have? What do they need to know prior to your
lesson?
o Students will need to understand that earth is a planet and that there are multiple
planets in our solar system.
o Students will also need to understand the concept of a main idea.
What management and grouping strategies need to be considered?
o Whole Body Listening

3. Materials and Resources


What materials and resources do you need to teach the lesson?
o Main idea/detail checklist
o 5Ws color chart
o Planet article
o Computer-solar system model

4. Reflection In and On Action:


How will you assess students knowledge and learning pre, during and post? (KWL chart,
anticipation guides, etc.).
o Students will find the main idea of a paragraph independently at the close of the
lesson
o

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Direct Instruction Lesson Plan


(What will actually be completed)
Lesson Title: ___Main Idea and Detail of articles about the planets______
Main Objective of this lesson: Students will be able to write to demonstrate their ability to
find the main idea of a non-fiction grade level text.
Anticipatory Set:
How will you get the student(s) attention? Relate lesson to prior learning.
o Whole Body Listening
o What do you already know about planets and our solar system?
o Watch the Solar System Scope

Teaching:
Introduce and model new knowledge: What and how will you teach (list step-by-step instructions
for the lesson).
o I will review the checklist/steps for finding the main idea.
o I will demonstrate how to use the steps with one paragraph.
o I will demonstrate how to find the 5Ws.
What additional strategies and accommodations/modifications will you need to
teach/implement?
o I will ask students to read me the steps and the text so that they stay engaged.
o Students will have a copy of the checklist.
o Students will learn hand motions to help them remember the steps

Guided Practice:
What strategies will you use to ensure the students are actively participating and are engaged in
the lesson?

o I will ask students to read me the steps and the text so that they stay engaged.
Check for Understanding:
How will you determine if the student(s) understand the lesson? What questions will you ask
your students? (Use Blooms Taxonomy: Creating, evaluating, analyzing, applying, understanding, &
remembering)
o I will have them complete an activity of matching details to main ideas. I will also
ask questions such has
Does that sentence explain why, how or what?
How will you adjust your teaching if the students are not understanding/learning the content?
o I will highlight key words in the text for students to reference for the students to
reference.
o I will ask questions giving them 2-3 options so that they can find the correct
answer.

Independent Practice:
What will this look like? Is it homework? Completion of a product independently?
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o Students will highlight and verbally tell me the main idea and supporting details
for one paragraph.
o Students will continue to practice as they find research about a planet they have
chosen.

How/where will students be able to integrate (generalize) this learning in the future?
o They will continue to use this skill as they research their own planet.

Closure and Evaluation:


How will you evaluate student learning from this lesson? How will you know that your main
objective was met?
o Students will highlight and verbally tell me the main idea and supporting details
for one paragraph.
How will you formally END the lesson (how will student(s) summarize or demonstrate learning
of the lesson)? This should be tied to the main objective.
o I will ask students to tell me the main idea and detail of the paragraph they read.
o I will also ask the the 5Ws we use to find the main idea.

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