Edited Lesson Plan 4 Text-To-Text Connections
Edited Lesson Plan 4 Text-To-Text Connections
Edited Lesson Plan 4 Text-To-Text Connections
Date Fall 2017 Subject/ Topic/ Theme Text-to-Text Connections Grade 2nd
I. Objectives
How does this lesson connect to the unit plan?
In this lesson, students will learn how to make text-to-text connections, which is another way of using their schema that leads to comprehension.
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Common Core standards (or GLCEs if not available in Common Core) addressed:
Forest Hills District Standard RL.9 Analyzing and Comparing Multiple Texts: Compare/contrast two or more versions of the
same story
R.CM.02.01: Make text-to-self and text-to-text connections and comparisons by activating prior knowledge, connecting
personal knowledge, experience, and understanding of others to ideas in text through oral and written responses.
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particular learners write the name(s) of the learner(s) to whom it applies.)
*remember, understand, apply, analyze, evaluate, create
The classroom will be set up as usual, students will sit at the front carpet on the floor for this
How will your
lessons. Each child will be reminded to make a good seat choice before we begin the lesson.
classroom be set up for
this lesson?
10 We will start by reading the traditional Students will listen to cinderella story.
min Cinderella story.
After reading this story, I will have students Students will get wiggles out, get drink, etc. then
stand up and get their wiggles out and tell them come back to the carpet.
to settle back in and get cozy as we are going to
read another story. Students will listen to story of the Rough-Faced
10 Then we will read the Rough-Faced Girl. Girl.
min
After reading both stories, we will create a Venn
Diagram on the board to compare the two stories
10
to each other.
min Developmen
The board above the Venn Diagram will read, Students will think about Venn Diagrams and
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Text-to-Text Connection. will volunteer to share their ideas.
(the largest
Next, I will ask students if they know what a
component or
Venn Diagram is and how we would go about
main body of
filling it out. I will ask for volunteers to Students will share parts of the story that can fit
the lesson)
share/help explain the Venn Diagram. into the different sections of the Venn Diagram.
Next, I will ask students for pieces of information
that could go into each box and explain how each
thing that is going into the middle is a connection
between the two texts. Students will choose to listen as we do the
I will provide each student with a hard surface activity as a class or write ideas down. (This is
and a blank page where they can draw a Venn for the students who will get bored just
Diagram, so if they want to follow along by listening, the more advanced students who need
writing themselves they have that option, and if an extra challenge.)
they want to listen as we do it together as a class
they can also choose to do that.