To learn more about this lesson, read the Lesson 5 Narrative found under the Additional Materials tab.
Daily Learning Targets
- I can answer questions using key details about the solution in “Out of the Rubble” from Off to Class.
- I can write about the solution in the section “Out of the Rubble” using details from the text.
Ongoing Assessment
- During Work Time A, use the Speaking and Listening Checklist to monitor student progress (see Assessment Overview and Resources).
- Collect students’ Off to Class Notebooks and collect data on their progress (ability to take notes) and (informative writing).
Purpose of Lesson
- In this lesson, students again have various opportunities to orally share their thinking with a partner before drawing, writing their notes, and writing their informative paragraphs. As in Lesson 4, they also have a chance to summarize the entire section with a partner.
- Students use their notes from the close read-aloud and write the last two parts of their informative paragraph: information about the solution and the conclusion.
In Advance
- Preview the Close Read-aloud Guide: Off to Class (Session 4) to familiarize yourself with what will be required of students.
- Consider laying out the Off to Class Notebooks in a way that makes it easy for students to access them during the close read-aloud.
- Prepare:
- Index card for the word collaboration, to be used during Work Time A.
- Informative Paragraph: “Protecting the Amazon”: Teacher Model.
- Review the Think-Pair-Share protocol.
- Post: Learning targets, “What Is School” Song, How to Take Notes Anchor Chart, and Parts of a Problem and Solution Informative Paragraph Anchor Chart.
Vocabulary
- Lesson-specific: collaboration, recount, revise, edit
- Text-specific: UNICEF, Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Materials
- “What Is School?” Song (from Unit 1, Lesson 2; one to display)
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Close Read-aloud Guide: Off to Class (For Teacher Reference) (Session 4)
- Speaking and Listening Checklist (for teacher reference)
- Off to Class (from Lesson 2; one to display; for teacher read-aloud)
- Off to Class Notebook (from Lesson 2; one per student)
- Off to Class Notebook (Example, for Teacher Reference) (from Lesson 2)
- How to Take Notes Anchor Chart (begun in Lesson 2)
- For ELLs: Language Dive Guide II: Off to Class (For Teacher Reference) (optional)
- For ELLs: Sentence Strip Chunks II: Off to Class (one to display)
- Index Card with collaboration (new; teacher-created)
- Parts of a Problem and Solution Informative Paragraph Anchor Chart (begun in Lesson 3)
- Off to Class Note-catcher: “Protecting the Amazon”: Teacher Model (from Lesson 2; added to during Work Time A)
- Informative Paragraph: “Protecting the Amazon”: Teacher Model (from Lesson 4)
- Problem and Solution Informative Writing Model: “The Rainforest School” (from Lesson 3; one to display)
- Information about the Solution: Non-Example (one to display)
- Sticky Notes
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