1. Literacy Lesson Planning Menu
Pre-Planning Considerations:
• What are the reading levels of the students?
• Will the difficulty of the text require any scaf-
folding for struggling readers?
• Will I need to pre-teach any vocabulary?
• What is my purpose in teaching this particular
text?
• Are the text structures and text features of the
text familiar to the students? After Reading Desserts
• How do I want the students to process the in- -Summarize and
formation? Discussion? Writing?
During Reading Entrees connect learning for
• Which strategies will work with this text?
long term
- Support and Monitor Comprehension - memory -
Before Reading Appetizers 25-word abstract
Connections, Points, & Questions Carousel Brainstorming
-Activate Prior Knowledge- Double/Triple Entry Journals Get the Gist
Graphic Organizers Graphic Organizers
Admit slip
Anticipation Guides Headings into Questions Journal responses
KWL Highlighting/Coding the text Narrative Pyramid/Bio-Pyramid
Prediction Word Scramble QAR Quick Writes
Preview the Text—THIEVES Question the Author (QtA)
Preview/Preteach text structure RACE technique—open-ended
Vocabulary Pre-teaching Reciprocal Teaching response
Strategies Scoring Comprehension RAFTS
-List-Group-Label-Write Support with Text Structures
-Possible Sentences Reciprocal Teaching
-Word Sorts
Sketch to Stretch/Visualizing Summarizing
-Word Walls Talking to the Text Write Around/Silent Discussion
-Concept Definition Map Text frames Word Splash
Web Quests Think-aloud Bookmarks
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