Lesson ING-410

Teacher: Josue Gonzalez

Topic: Short story

Level: Fifth Grade

Strategy no. 3: Metacognition and Authentic Assessment

Objective

Students will successfully express his thoughts about the reading by using the Double-Entry
Journal.

Materials and equipment

 Short story
 Worksheet

Procedure:
First, the teacher is going to introduce the text passage to the students. Then, the teacher
distributes a blank Double-Entry Journal sheet to the students. After that, students must read,
analyze the passage and make journal entries along the way.
• Students should write a quote, phrase or sentence from the text that
they want to better understand or expand upon.
• Students should use the right column to analyze or relate to
the phrase or sentence they wrote in the left column. Finally, teacher hold a discussion
for students to share their findings and responses to the text with the class.

Activity no. 1: Double-Entry Journal

Old Days

In the old days, this used to be a beautiful street, lined with trees. There were no tall buildings,

just houses and a few small shops. Just look it now! Skyscrapers, apartment blocks, and traffic!

There used to be no traffic. People used to walk up and down the streets at night quite safely.

Nowadays, you do not want to go out at night after dark. It’s dangerous. Whenever he had lunch

he used to order some bread and butter and used to leave it on the plate.
Text title: _______________ Name: ____________________ Date: ________________

Instructions: On the left column write short quotes from the reading and in the right column write
your personal answers to the quotes on the left.

Quotes from the text Thoughts

Evaluation

Formative
Lesson ING-400

Objectives

Content

The students are going to do two activities. First, they are going to solve the riddle and finally,
they are going to categorize the type of activity according to each type of Intelligence.

Methodology: Multiple Intelligences

Activity no. 1 Discovering one of your Multiple Intelligences

Instructions: Solve this riddle in pairs.

I have eyes. But I see nothing. I have ears, but I hear nothing. I have a mouth, but I cannot
speak. If I am young, I stay young; if I am old, I stay old. Who Am I?

Activity no. 2 Checking the understanding of Multiple Intelligences

Students are going to fill the chart by categorizing each of the following seven activity types into
the type of intelligence it likely taps. There is one intelligence for each: Singing, tapping out the
stress patterns of sentences, cooperative tasks, goal setting, map reading, Total Physical
Response, Surveying students ‘likes and dislikes, and graphing the results.

Type of Intelligence Activity

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Resource

 Worksheet

Evaluation

Bibliography

Brown, H. Douglas (1989). A Practical Guide to Language Learning. New York: McGraw-Hill.