Lesson Plan Template ED 3501 (Version C)

Lesson
Title/Focus

Introducing Norbert

Date

Mon Mar 10 2014

Subject/Gra
de Level

Grade 7

Time
Duratio
n

49 min.

Unit

Bust a Gut

Teacher

Miss McCullough

OUTCOMES FROM ALBERTA PROGRAM OF STUDIES

General
Learning
Outcomes:
Specific
Learning
Outcomes:

GLO 1: Explore thoughts, ideas, feelings and experiences

GLO 2: Comprehend and respond personally and critically to oral, print and other
media texts
1.1: Express ideas and develop understanding: express personal
understandings of ideas and information based on prior
2.2: Construct meaning from texts: analyze how plot develops; the
connection between plot and subplot; and the interrelationship of plot,
setting and characters
2.2: Construct meaning from texts: identify and explain conflict, and discuss
how it develops and may be resolved

LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Students will:
1. Review unit plan overview with the class and ask any relevant questions
2. Construct meaning from Introducing Norbert by applying the new reading strategy as we
read the story
3. Analyze plot development, characters and conflict as we read

ASSESSMENTS
Observations:

Are students following along with the overview?

Are students listening?
Are students drawing appropriately?

LEARNING RESOURCES CONSULTED

Tompkins, Gail E.. 50 literacy strategies: step by

step. 4th ed. Boston: Pearson, 2013. Print.
Scrimger, Richard. Introducing Norbert

MATERIALS AND EQUIPMENT

Scanned copies of story for students
Personal copy from book to read out
loud
Blank paper
Students: pencils

PROCEDURE
Attention Grabber
Expectations for
Learning and
Behaviour
Advance
Organizer/Agenda

Introduction
Starting our short stories today!

Time

Full participation, appropriate behavior, ask questions if

confused
1. Overview of unit
2. Reading strategy
3. Introducing Norbert

Transition to Body
Body
Learning Activity
#1

Learning Activity
#2

Unit Overview
Provide students with printed overview of unit
Go through verbally, ask if there are any questions
Ask students: who likes/doesnt mind reading out loud in
class; who absolutely hates it. Take down names for both
Reading Strategy: Sketch-to-Stretch
Introduce strategy
Model: print out a very short story (ie, Three Little Pigs)
and demonstrate sketch-to-stretch on the whiteboard
Keeps you paying attention to the story, lets you think

Adapted from a template created by Dr. K. Roscoe

Time

10 min

13 min

Lesson Plan Template ED 3501 (Version C)

deeper about it as you listen

Not just what happens, but interpretations and feelings
as well
Theme & symbols
Hand out pieces of paper, remind that I will be checking
these to make sure youre on track.

Assessments/
Differentiation

Learning Activity
#3

Reading: Introducing Norbert

Introduce story, show the novel The Nose From Jupiter;
ask if anyone has read it before
Ask students to do the sketch-to-stretch strategy while I
read this story out loud.
Ask to take good care of their copied stories, not to lose
them. Well be doing activities in 2 weeks that you will
need these for, so please keep them in your binder and
PUT YOUR NAME ON IT
Have two students ([names retracted] and someone
near the door) hand out the stories.
10 minutes til the end: students label drawings, share in
partners

20 min

Assessments/
Differentiation

Closure
Assessment of
Learning:
Feedback From
Students:
Transition To Next
Lesson

Time

Only mid-story, will assess later

Rate the story so far 1 - 3
Continue with story & strategy next class

Adapted from a template created by Dr. K. Roscoe