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Teachers: Miss J. Nason

Grade:7EF
School: Nashwaaksis Middle School

Date: November 19, 2014
Lesson ${ap
Title of Lesson: Predicting or Thinking Ahead
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Reading and Viewing
4. Students will be expected to select, read, and view withunderstanding a range of literature,
information, media, and visual texts.
. demonstrate an awareness of how authors use pictorial, typographical, and
organizational devices such as photos, titles, headings, and bold print to achieve certain
purposes in their writing, and use those devices more regularly to construct meaning
and enhance understanding
o develop some independence in recognizing and using various reading and viewing
strategies (predicting, questioning, etc.) and in using cueing systems (graphophonic,
contextual, syntactic, etc.) to construct meaning; apply and develop these strategies and
systems while reading and viewing increasingly complex print and media texts
. talk and write about the various processes and strategies readers and viewers apply
when constructing meaning from various texts; recognize and articulate personal
processes and strategies used when reading or viewing various texts
Assessment:
Class Objectives: Big Ideas, Key
Observation for work behaviorns
Questions:
(Later collect the sheets to look at students
What is predicting?
predictions
and reasons after discussing them)
predicting?
How do we use
How does predicting help us understand a text
better?
Time Reauired for this Lesson: One class

Materials/Resources: timer projected onlo the smart board for timing of crossword and WW,
fulltext article, question sheet.
Methods/Struefure: Warm up- whole class, Teacher lead discussion and reading of article,
individual work sheet.
Features:
TexUAudio/V'ideo Based
Full text no blanks on article
Resources:
is
One article handout that
called'oThe Age of Drones".
One question sheet (with one
question on it)
Instructional Strategies/ Procedure for the Class:

Intra/Warm-up: WordWork. Word searches for five minutes, at the end they need to record
their data (date, total words found and minutes). If they finish in this time do a tally of
information and put their name on it and pass in to teacher and get a new word search from the
back of the class. Second half of the homophone pre-test is given. Then into the homophone
section of their word book.
Time:15 minutes
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Knowledge Content: Teacher shares her predictions with the class. Asks for some examples
from students. Hands out article and it is read together with pauses at times to relate back to
teachers predictions and also any student predictions (highlight both differences and
similarities between text and predictions). Both are helpful when it comes time to read the text
because you are thinking about it, which is important.
Time: 25 minutes
Activities: Give them a sheet that asks them to consider liow predicting helped their
understanding of the article. (They may need to re-read the article by themselves). Want if it
helped them understand the article and why it helped (with exarnples from their predictions
and the text). Work on finishing that one question at home. (if over time completing the sheet
the next class and handing all their work in is fine).
Time: l0 Minutes
Close: Finish the question sheet about predicting. Be sure to bring in the completed question
will be collected. And next day we are going to
look at newspapers.
Time: 2 minutes before bell
Differentiation: Whole class, guided reading to help students, a teacher example and student
examples will be incotporated. While they will be working alone on the question sheet (it is
about their own work habits) teacher support is always available and when they are working;
circulating around the room will help to make sure they utilize that support.
Teaching Method !4d Strategies: Whole class discussion and reading. fndividual work
References: Article is taken from: What in the World, Level 1,2014/2015:Issue 2'p22
sheet and their predicting sheet tomorrow, as it

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Title of Lesson: Predicting or Thinking Ahead

Time Reauired for this Lesson: One class

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