Student Teaching edTPA Lesson Plan Template

Subject: Literacy Central Focus: Creating a powerful introduction that ‘hooks’ the
reader.
Essential Standard/Common Core Objective:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.3.2 Write
informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and
convey ideas and information clearly.
Date submitted: Date taught: 3/21/18
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.3.2.A Introduce a topic
and group related information together; include
illustrations when useful in aiding comprehension.

Daily Lesson Objective:

Students will be able to independently create an introduction to their paper using one of the taught strategies. Students are
expected to earn a 2 on this task. Students will receive a 2 if they complete the task using a strategy taught, a 1 for
completing the task not using a strategy taught, or a 0 for not completing the task.
21st Century Skills: Academic Language Demand (Language Function and
Critical Thinking Vocabulary):
Creating Create

Prior Knowledge: Students should already know information about their planet.

Activity Description of Activities and Setting Time

With everyone on the carpet the teacher will say, “I know everyone has been
working hard on gathering their facts, putting them with other like facts for 30
1. Focus and Review
your report and writing up your report. Today we are going to talk about how Seconds
to start your paper.”

2. Statement of Objective
Our goal for today is for everyone to have a good introduction for your paper. 30
for Student
Seconds

3. Teacher Input
“Today, we are going to learn how to ‘hook’ our readers. This means the
introduction, or first few sentences of our report, are so good and so
interesting, it forces the reader to continue reading.” Put up anchor chart of
How do you hook your reader? (pictured below). “This anchor chart shows us
some ways we can hook our readers. First, we can ask a question. An example
is ‘What has five rows of teeth?’ Wow, I am really interested in finding out
what has five rows of teeth. I guess I would need to continue reading to find
out. Another way to hook your reader is by stating a really amazing fact. An
example is ‘Sharks use more than 10,000 teeth in its life’. Wow, that is a lot of
teeth. This makes me wonder where they all go. I guess I would need to keep 5 Minutes
reading to find out. Another way to hook your reader is by using a sound
effect. A sound effect is a word that when you read it, it sounds like a noise.
An example of this might be ‘Chomp! Chomp! Here comes a shark!’ Oh my
goodness is the shark coming to get us? I don’t know, I guess I’ll have to keep
reading to find out. Another way to hook our reader is by using an
exclamation. An exclamation is sudden cry out. An example of using an
 exclamation is ‘Watch out! Here comes a shark!’ Oh no, here comes a shark, I
wonder what will happen next. I guess I need to keep reading to find out. All
of these examples made me want to keep reading. These are good examples of
how to start a paper or report.”

“I know all of you are researching a planet in our solar system and no one is
aloud to research Earth. I have been doing some research on Earth, and I was
wondering if you could help me with my introduction for my report.” Put up
anchor chart with bad introduction stating ‘The planet I researched is Earth. It
is a planet in our universe’. Ask students if this is a good introduction or a bad
introduction and have them state why. After confirming it is a bad 5-10
4. Guided Practice
introduction and ask students to help you create a good hook. Allow a student minutes
to pick a strategy to use and allow students to help formulate the good
introduction by raising their hands to offer suggestions. When a student offers
a suggestion, allow the remaining students to vote if it works with our strategy
or not by doing thumbs up or thumbs down. (Anchor chart of bad introduction
and students collaborative introduction pictured below)

“Now I want everyone to come up with their own introduction to your paper.
You are not writing an introduction to Earth, but you need to write one about
the planet you have been researching. I am going to give everyone a neon note
card for everyone to write their introduction on. This note card is different
than your topic cards. Everyone is writing their own paper, so everyone needs 5-15
5. Independent Practice
to complete their own introduction. When you are done your introduction, minutes
raise your hand for me to come and check it, before going on to continue your
report.” The teacher will hand out the notecards and allow the students to go
back to their seats. The teacher will walk around and answer any questions
and then check the notecards when needed.

The assessment is an informal assessment. The teacher will walk around the room and
check the students’ notecards. The teacher will not collect the notecards, since the students
6. Assessment Methods of
will need to continue to use them for their project. The students will receive an informal
all objectives/skills:
grade of 0,1,2. 0 if they did not create an introduction. 1 if they created an introduction but
did not use a strategy. 2 if they created an introduction using one of the strategies taught.

“When you are finished with your notecard and I have checked it, continue to
7. Closure
work on your report.”

8. Assessment Results of
The majority of the students, 10 out of 18 showed mastery by earning a 3. The remaining
all objectives/skills:
students earned a 1 by being confused on how to use an interesting fact as an introduction.
Targeted Students Modifications/Accommodations Student/Small Group Modifications/Accommodations
For ELLs, sentence starters were provided along with If students are having difficulty first coming up with an
possible introductions they only needed to modify. introduction, allow them to pair up or have a small group of
students with the same planet to come up with an introduction
as a group. This would be on their planet, getting their thinking
geared toward their planet. Then the students would split up
and create their own introduction hooks.
Materials/Technology: ‘How do you hook your reader’ anchor chart, anchor chart with bad introduction, markers for
anchor chart, neon index cards.
Reflection on lesson: