Lesson Plan for Reading

Reading Strategies

Grade Level: 4th Grade

Materials:
Ball
Poster Board
Markers
Colored Pencils
Pencil
Paper
Textbook

Intelligences:
Interpersonal- working in groups to create a poster
Spatial- drawing posters to hang in the classroom, reminding them of the studying strategies
Logical- must put the posters in the order in which the strategies are used
Intrapersonal/Linguistic- students will list unfamiliar words they find in a lesson and write contextual clues to find their meanings

Objectives:
1. Students will review strategies for reading their textbook through constructing a poster labeled with one of the strategies
2. Students will write unfamiliar words on a sheet of paper from the text and will write contextual clues to help them understand the words they do not know
3. Students will demonstrate their understanding of the lesson by taking a quiz that has words that may be unfamiliar to them in paragraphs. They will then write contextual clues for each of the underlined words.
4. Students will also label which study strategy would be used in different contexts, to assess what they have retained about proper preparation when reading non-fiction text.

Teaching Presentation:
1. I will ask the students if they know what a contextual clue is and find out what they know about them.
2. Students will go online and find information about contextual clues.
3. We will discuss why we are likely to find new words in textbooks.
4. We will discuss why it is important to figure out the meaning of words we do not know
5. The students will think of how contextual clues can help them figure out the meanings of words.
6. We will look at examples in the textbook and discuss how we know what the words mean by looking at the surrounding text.