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This unit plan is designed to enhance young readers' vocabulary and writing skills through interactive and engaging activities. Students will analyze literary nonfiction, focusing on well-known speeches to identify authors' literary devices. The curriculum emphasizes the writing process, guiding students through planning, drafting, revising, and editing persuasive papers. Daily activities include vocabulary review, comprehension exercises, and Reader’s Theatre to improve engagement and understanding. The goal is to foster critical thinking and effective communication in young learners.
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Young Readers/8thLesson PlansTeachers: Van Syoc 2013-2014
Unit TEKS: (RS/SS) • (2) Vocabulary Development. Understand new vocabulary and use it when reading and writing. • (7) Nonfiction. Understand, make inferences and draw conclusions about the varied structural patterns and features of literary nonfiction and provide evidence from text to support their understanding. Students are expected to analyze passages in well-known speeches for the author's use of literary devices and word and phrase choice (e.g., aphorisms, epigraphs) to appeal to the audience. • (14) Writing Process. Use elements of the writing process (planning, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing) to compose text. A) Plan first draft, B) develop drafts, C) Revise drafts , D) Edit drafts, and E) Revise final draft
Subject: Young ReadersDATE: 9/30/13 Objective WARM-UP Activity • Review vocabulary from current section • READ • Review quadrant • Scholastic warmup Read classroom novel for comprehension and vocabulary development. Homework Read 20 mins a day LANGUAGE OBJ Essential Question? Assessment Thumbs Up/Thumbs Down “How is Esperanza learning and growing in our novel?”
Subject: Young ReadersDATE:10/1/13 OBJECTIVE WARM-UP Activity IStation • Review quadrant • Scholastic warm up Istation in computer lab Homework Read 20 mins a day LANGUAGE OBJ Essential Question? Assessment IStation How am I growing as a student using Istation?
Subject: Young ReadersDATE: 10/2/13 ***PLANNING DAY FOR ELAR*** Divide into preassigned groups. Reader’s Theatre. OBJECTIVE WARM-UP Activity • Review quadrant • Scholastic warm up • Group assignment for Reader’s Theatre Homework Read 20 mins a day LANGUAGE OBJ Essential Question? Assessment Turn in completed work from Reader’s Theatre How does a specific assignment help me stay focused?
Subject: Young ReadersDATE: 10/3/13 OBJECTIVE WARM-UP Activity • Students follow writing assignment to choose a topic to persuade someone (THINK-INK-PAIR-SHARE) To write a persuasive argument using the guidelines provided Homework Read 20 mins a day LANGUAGE OBJ Essential Question? Assessment Persuasive paper “How do I feel when someone tries to persuade me to do something I do not want to do?”
Subject: Young ReadersDATE: 10/4 OBJECTIVES WARM-UP Activity • Continue with persuasive paper (use sheet provided as a guide) To write a persuasive argument using the guidelines provided Homework Read 20 mins a day LANGUAGE OBJ Essential Question? Assessment Turn in persuasive paper “Why should I be able to write a concise persuasive paper?”