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Subject : Reading , Language . Grade 5

Time : 60 minutes

Objectives : The students will know definitions for the selected vocabulary , the students will understand that one person can make a historical difference , the students will read and will be able to summarize their selection

Materials : Student

Open Court Anthologies (readers . Grade 5 , students notebooks , pencils , pens , highlighters , worksheets for distribution

Procedures

Introduction : Start the class by discussing the background information about the Revolutionary War . Explain that today they will find out about historical examples in which one person made a difference They will also learn new words

Lesson : This lesson is an introduction of the selection The Master Spy of Yorktown ' This non-fiction selection touches on a very important point : the significance of an individual in a major historical event . This whole theme is woven with an idea that one individual has a capacity to change an outcome of war , sic . The students by now are very familiar with the elements of non-fiction and its purpose as of to share important information with the readers . This lesson , as an introductory instrument , includes the following elements

Build Background (Scaffold

Review and Prepare

Word Knowledge

Selection Vocabulary

First Read (prerecorded

Talk a little about the dynamics between the British and Patriots ' armies . Show a short video scaffolding students ' prior knowledge at the same time . Continue the discussion leading students to accepting the notion that one individual has the ability to change outcome of the major event . Connect students immediately to the selection vocabulary discussing each word as a concept thus defining and exemplifying each . Distribute the list of vocabulary words with their appropriate sentences . Have the class read each sentence at a time stopping them and discussing the correct definition for each vocabulary word . Ask targeted students to think of their own sentences for each vocabulary words

Practice : 1 (Students are arranged sitting in pairs ) Announce Pair Share ' in which each student tests another on the knowledge of each vocabulary words by asking to make own sentence . While students are engaged , the teacher walks around , stops from time to time , and questions selected students . 2 . Call on students ' attention . Ask them to browse through the first two pages of their selection looking fro Clues (hints from the pictures , Problems (problematic words , and Wonderings (possible questions . Announce Pair Share again with the instruction to share two of each . Give them four minutes to do so . After , ask for volunteers to share his or her pair 's responses . 3 . Shift their attention to reading . Call on volunteer to become a Director . He or she is walking around the class tapping the student who is supposed to read out loud . After about one paragraph , the Director taps on another student (by random ) for...