Day 2
• Students will review their complete graphic organizers from the previous day and share with a partner how we use graphic organizers to present a main idea and supporting details. Students will share to the entire class their own definitions of “main idea” and “supporting detail”, as well as listen to their peers’ definitions of those terms.
• Students will select a non-fiction topic they know a lot about, either from classroom lessons or personal interest. On a blank graphic organizer, they will fill in the topic and key words or details they know about their topic. Once completed and checked by myself, students will then complete a second graphic organizer. In this graphic organizer, students will take their topic and key words/details and craft them into a complete topic sentence and complete sentences …show more content…
Based on your knowledge of the subject-specific content and of student development, explain why the instructional strategies, student activities, and resources you listed in question 1:
• are appropriate for this class The instructional strategies included in these lessons are appropriate for the class because they support achievement of the overall state-adapted academic content standards in reading and writing. By placing students in groups of various sizes, the instructional strategies aim to benefit the spectrum of learning types; some students work better in groups, while others work better independently, and this lesson provides both opportunities of group or partner work, as well as independent practice of the skills and concepts being taught.
The student activities included in these lessons are appropriate for this class because they provide opportunities for the students to satisfy the learning goals for the lesson. Each activity and interaction between students and myself helps the students to understand how to identify or create a topic sentence, as well as identify or utilize supporting details to emphasize the main
• Students will review their complete graphic organizers from the previous day and share with a partner how we use graphic organizers to present a main idea and supporting details. Students will share to the entire class their own definitions of “main idea” and “supporting detail”, as well as listen to their peers’ definitions of those terms.
• Students will select a non-fiction topic they know a lot about, either from classroom lessons or personal interest. On a blank graphic organizer, they will fill in the topic and key words or details they know about their topic. Once completed and checked by myself, students will then complete a second graphic organizer. In this graphic organizer, students will take their topic and key words/details and craft them into a complete topic sentence and complete sentences …show more content…
Based on your knowledge of the subject-specific content and of student development, explain why the instructional strategies, student activities, and resources you listed in question 1:
• are appropriate for this class The instructional strategies included in these lessons are appropriate for the class because they support achievement of the overall state-adapted academic content standards in reading and writing. By placing students in groups of various sizes, the instructional strategies aim to benefit the spectrum of learning types; some students work better in groups, while others work better independently, and this lesson provides both opportunities of group or partner work, as well as independent practice of the skills and concepts being taught.
The student activities included in these lessons are appropriate for this class because they provide opportunities for the students to satisfy the learning goals for the lesson. Each activity and interaction between students and myself helps the students to understand how to identify or create a topic sentence, as well as identify or utilize supporting details to emphasize the main