Christina Martin Pre/During/Post Strategy Design Content Area: Social Studies Objective of Lesson: To teach students about the

most popular published accounts of a fire, while teaching them Comprehension Strategies Explanation of Objectives and their Relationship(s) to Selected Strategies: Pre-reading Strategy Identification: ReQuest Explanation: I will have the first 4 sentences up on the white board and I will go one by one discussing. I would start with the title The Great Chicago Fire and discuss what the title tells us about the passage. I would then ask what they think the intent of the author was. We will then evaluate each of the first 4 sentences and set a purpose for the reading selection. Rationale: I think this will prepare the students for what they should be looking for in the passage. They will begin by asking questions and hopefully continue to ask questions while they are reading to improve their comprehension. During Reading Strategy Identification: I would have them use metacognitive monitoring and fix-up strategies. Explanation: Metacognitive monitoring and fix up strategies will teach the student what they can do to have the highest level of comprehension. It will teach the student what strategies such as strategic questions, about-point and graphic organizers in order to organize their thoughts. Rationale: Students do not realize that there are different types of reading. Reading for pleasure and reading for knowledge. Students need to be able to read critically absorbing as much information as they can. Post-reading Strategy Identification: Post Reading recitation Explanation: Recognition, recall, translation. I will have questions ready Rationale: Recognition questions require remembering finding information, recall questions require remembering information; and translation requires the students to use the words given and summarize what they have read in their own words. Questions:

1. What does parched mean in the sentence leaving the ground parched and the wooden city vulnerable? 2. Why would the city be vulnerable and to what if it were dry? 3. How did the fire break out? Was it an accident or done on purpose?

4. Why were the firefighters exhausted? 5. Why do you think the fire spread so fast? 6. What does leveled mean in the sentence The entire central business district of Chicago was leveled? 7. When they say the fire was spectacular what are they trying to say? 8. Why was the aftermath of the fire a lifetime opportunity for the photographers? 9. What happened to a lot of the businesses and churches after the fire? 10. What was kept in the safes and why would safes be the only thing left after a fire? Why would this cause problems? 11. Why would the bills crumble after the safe was open? 12. What does intervened mean? 13. Why did they only use one road to travel? 14. How do you think the materials changed? 15. How d people turn the rubble into artwork? 16. Why were Chicagoans in shock? 17. Where did they put the rubble? 18. Why was it important to set up the basic services? 19. What was the authors purpose in writing this passage?