Teacher: Alice Rhodes Class: English 7 English Enhanced Scope and Sequence
Lesson Skill: Comparing fiction to nonfiction text
VDOE –ENGLISH 7
Essential Questions: Indentify non- fiction and fiction text features: how are they alike, different and similar?
Monday- Friday: April 21-25, 2014
*Friday April, 25: Literature Vocabulary Test – 16 words to define and provide an example. Antonym, simile, antecedent, appositive, setting, foreshadowing, plot, first-person point of view, third-person point of view, theme, opinion, fact, mood, denotation, connotation, preposition.
Overhead: Selected non-fiction and fiction text for interactive function and class visual.
SOLs & (Essential Knowledge): 7.5 l reading strategies (P. synthesis information)
6.5, 6.6
7.5, 7.6
8.5, 8.6
Blooms’s Taxonomy: ☐ Remember /Understand ☐Apply /Analyze ☐Evaluate ☐Create
Marzano: /Identifying Similarities & Differences Summarizing & Note Taking ☐Homework & Practice
/Reinforcing Effort & Providing Recognition ☐Nonlinguistic Representation ☐Cooperative Learning
☐Setting Objectives & Providing Feedback ☐Generating and Testing Hypothesis
☐Cues, Questions & Advanced Organizers
Lesson Activities:
1. Introduce Scope non-fiction and fiction text selections. Students do a silent read of same text selections.
2. In pairs, complete Fiction and Nonfiction Analysis chart.
3. In pairs, complete Venn diagram.
1. In pairs, complete Author’s Purpose: Comparing Fiction & Nonfiction table.
Differentiation:
Tier 1
Break the students up into small groups.
Give the students index cards that have shorter passages of fiction and nonfiction texts.
Have the students sort the index cards into piles of fiction and nonfiction.
Create a larger version of the Venn diagram on paper for each group.
Students place the index cards on the Venn diagram in the appropriate space.
Tier 2 and 3
Students listen to group discuss what the similarities of the texts and write their answers in the middle
Circle of the Venn Diagram
Tier 1
In their groups, students read the passages on their index cards and identify examples of these key words.
Tier 2 and 3
Students place their index cards in the middle circle and then divide them into groups of fiction and nonfiction in the outer circles.
In preparation of the lesson on Author’s Purpose, find shorter examples of fiction and nonfiction passages that inform, entertain, and persuade.
Tier 1
Distribute the passages and have students identify the author’s purpose.
Tier 2 and 3
Students use the passages to complete the Author’s Purpose Table worksheet. use notes with most of the information filled in – filling in select words
Assessments: Bell Ringer – “Luck of the Draw” unit review selection. Student randomly selects core concept que card to orally state definition, example and function for unit review.
Lesson Skill: Comparing fiction to nonfiction text
VDOE –ENGLISH 7
Essential Questions: Indentify non- fiction and fiction text features: how are they alike, different and similar?
Monday- Friday: April 21-25, 2014
*Friday April, 25: Literature Vocabulary Test – 16 words to define and provide an example. Antonym, simile, antecedent, appositive, setting, foreshadowing, plot, first-person point of view, third-person point of view, theme, opinion, fact, mood, denotation, connotation, preposition.
Overhead: Selected non-fiction and fiction text for interactive function and class visual.
SOLs & (Essential Knowledge): 7.5 l reading strategies (P. synthesis information)
6.5, 6.6
7.5, 7.6
8.5, 8.6
Blooms’s Taxonomy: ☐ Remember /Understand ☐Apply /Analyze ☐Evaluate ☐Create
Marzano: /Identifying Similarities & Differences Summarizing & Note Taking ☐Homework & Practice
/Reinforcing Effort & Providing Recognition ☐Nonlinguistic Representation ☐Cooperative Learning
☐Setting Objectives & Providing Feedback ☐Generating and Testing Hypothesis
☐Cues, Questions & Advanced Organizers
Lesson Activities:
1. Introduce Scope non-fiction and fiction text selections. Students do a silent read of same text selections.
2. In pairs, complete Fiction and Nonfiction Analysis chart.
3. In pairs, complete Venn diagram.
1. In pairs, complete Author’s Purpose: Comparing Fiction & Nonfiction table.
Differentiation:
Tier 1
Break the students up into small groups.
Give the students index cards that have shorter passages of fiction and nonfiction texts.
Have the students sort the index cards into piles of fiction and nonfiction.
Create a larger version of the Venn diagram on paper for each group.
Students place the index cards on the Venn diagram in the appropriate space.
Tier 2 and 3
Students listen to group discuss what the similarities of the texts and write their answers in the middle
Circle of the Venn Diagram
Tier 1
In their groups, students read the passages on their index cards and identify examples of these key words.
Tier 2 and 3
Students place their index cards in the middle circle and then divide them into groups of fiction and nonfiction in the outer circles.
In preparation of the lesson on Author’s Purpose, find shorter examples of fiction and nonfiction passages that inform, entertain, and persuade.
Tier 1
Distribute the passages and have students identify the author’s purpose.
Tier 2 and 3
Students use the passages to complete the Author’s Purpose Table worksheet. use notes with most of the information filled in – filling in select words
Assessments: Bell Ringer – “Luck of the Draw” unit review selection. Student randomly selects core concept que card to orally state definition, example and function for unit review.