Critical Literacy Lesson e

Name: _____Jens Riechers________________________

Instructions: Fill in this lesson template according to the directions in the course for this
submission.

Lesson Title Analyze/Read Text Critically

Lesson Objectives TSWBAT read/reread Miss Nelson is Missing to maintain accuracy,
fluency, and will use the strategy to gain comprehension.
Grade Level 3rd Grade Level
Materials Interactive Notebook/Miss Nelson is Missing/I-pad/Chromebook
Standards Covered 5.1 Ask and answer literal and inferential questions to determine
meaning; refer explicitly to the text to support inferences and
conclusions.
8.1 Use text evidence to:
a. describes characters’ traits, motivations, and feelings and explain
how their actions contribute to the development of the plot; and b.
explains the influence of cultural and historical context on
characters, setting, and plot development.
12.1 Identify text structures of various genres using the terms
paragraph, chapter, scene, and stanza; describe how each part
transitions
Content Covered The content that will be covered is the Big Idea read/reread of Miss
Nelson is Missing. Reading Teaching Critical Literacy and reviewing
the points of How Can We Motivate Students to Become Critically
Literate, I use these points as a guideline when creating my lesson.
Seeing them here is a breath of fresh air. Reading Miss Nelson is
Missing students will be identifying the author of the book, what is the
agenda or purpose of this literature, is bias present, and is bias
displayed in the book. The reader needs to acknowledge when he/she
comes across them and stop to understand them. When students
read/reread a passage they tend to slow down, pay more attention for
what I am asking for and understand the meaning more carefully.
Delivery of Content When we begin our lesson, we will initially read the entire literature.
We will ready it to cover the book and all aspects of it before we are
being trying to find out what is required. When we begin the reread we
will look at who wrote the text and write it down in our interactive
notebook. During the reread the article Capacity Building Serious has
an excellent subsection call Classroom Culture that directly correlates
to the lesson by building a safe and inclusive environment. This
promotes students to ask questions without worrying about the negative
responses of their peers. Rereading we will look for an explanation for
what the purpose/agenda of the book is. We will make notes and detail
the mystery of where Miss Nelson is and how the class changed with
Miss Viola Swamp as the substitute. The class will detail the bias of the
class toward Miss Nelson and Miss Viola Swamp. They will detail the
bias of Miss Nelson and Miss Viola Swamp toward the class and
compare and contrast the town. We will determine if there is bias in the
book and how it is revealed or displayed. Throughout this mini lesson I
agree with the article Inquiry-Based Learning: An Approach to
Educating and Inspiring Kids where the article talks about The Arts of
the Question. Making sure in the lesson that question are answerable
and require more than a simple yes or no really increases the rigor in
the ELA lessons.