Primary Guided Reading Lesson Plan s18

Intermediate Guided Reading Lesson Plan Title: Genre: Text Structure: Level: Dragon’s Gate by Laurence Yep Historical Narrative Informational W ISBN 0-06-440489-7 Fiction Literacy Core Objective: Enduring Understanding: Purpose for reading Standard VII: Comprehension. Students understand, interpret, and analyze narrative and People have been willing to subject themselves to informational grade level text. great trials to come to and live in America.

Content Core Objective: “I Can Statements” - Essential Questions: 4th Grade Social Studies Standard III: Determine how and why the rights and What brings/brought people from China to responsibilities of various groups have varied America? over time How is the reality of life in America different 5th Grade Social Studies Standard IV: from the dream? Students will understand that the 19th century was a time of incredible change for the United States, including geographic expansion, constitutional crisis, and economic growth.

ELL Strategies: Students reading at this level are likely to be quite fluent speakers of English although they may need more support with idioms, expressions, vocabulary, and multiple meaning words. This will affect their ability to draw conclusions and infer from the text. Encourage these students to use sticky notes or a notebook to jot questions they have while reading to be discussed/clarified at the guided reading table during the following session.

Other ELL strategies can be found at http://coe.sdsu.edu/people/jmora/pages/4x4activ ity.htm and tailored to the individual needs of your students. Before Reading Vocabulary: Tier 2 Vocabulary Words are high frequency words that are found across a variety of domains. At a minimum, provide student-friendly explanations that tell what a word means in everyday connected language. A wide range of vocabulary resources are available at http://t4.jordan.k12.ut.us/cbl/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=40&Itemid=35. tenant porcelain banquet self-consciously chagrin continent sanitation

Activate/Build Prior Knowledge:

Read Afterword Share information available at http://cprr.org/Museum/Chinese.html about Chinese Rail Workers Explain how the students will be using the index card to prepare for the discussion.

Comprehension Strategy: Summarizing and Determining Importance

During Reading Using appropriate Guided reading strategies, students will be reading at their own pace and teachers will be listening to students read, monitoring, giving feedback, taking anecdotal notes and running records.

Attend to Comprehension Within, Beyond, & About the text. After Reading Attend to Comprehension Within, Beyond, & About the text:

Each day have students take a 3x5 card and summarize what happened on one side. On the other, analyze the importance of what happened and the reasons it happened. They will share these cards with each other after each reading section.

Content Core Integration:(Science, Soc. St., Math, etc.) Assessment: Activities:

Imagine that you are making a documentary More information about the Chinese rail workers film about the hardships faced by Otter and his http://library.thinkquest.org/20619/Chinese.html family in the book. Draw out a story board for the trailer (preview) of your movie. http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/ch ina1.cfm Optional: have students actually create their trailers in iMovie, Garageband, or Powerpoint. Information about the TransContinental Railroad http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/tcrr/index.html

More information about the book and extensions http://eduscapes.com/newbery/94c.html

*Not all activities will be done in each lesson. Some lessons may take multiple days to complete. However, all students should be reading each time you meet.