edTPA Lesson Plan
Name Celina Salzone
Lesson #, Lesson Title Lesson #1, Main Topic
Date and Day of the Week Thursday November 29th, 2018
Grade Level and Class 2nd Grade 2-222
Period and Length 45 minutes
Materials Needed Handouts, smart board, PowerPoint, crayons, toolkit, pencils
Standards and Objectives
Standards: R.I 2.2 Identify the main topic of a multi-paragraph text as well as the focus of specific paragraphs within the
text.
Learning Objectives: SWBAT identify the main topic of a multi-paragraph text and specific paragraphs within the
text.
SWBAT use text features and the structure of text to summarize key details, analyzing what the author's purpose was for
the text.
SWBAT recount short stories and determine the main topic and supporting details to summarize.
Central Focus: Students will be able to explain the main topic of a short passage using supporting detail from the text.
Academic Language Demands: Students must be able to listen and respond on grade level.
Students should be able to read and write on grade level.
Students should be aware of phonetic language.
Struggling students will work in small groups with guidance from teachers.
Time Action Rationale
Launch (Motivation)
Whole Group Reengagement Lesson. Students will participate during the
5 mini lesson. This will help them
minutes Have PowerPoint on Main Topic up on the Smart Board. get a deeper understanding of what
they will be working on throughout
Ask students “what is a topic?” As each answer pops up have students the lesson.
read each aloud to the class.
Complete examples with the class.
Instructional Procedure (Explore)
Read students a short passage about Ice cream.
Can anyone tell me what the main topic of this story was? Students will listen to a short
15 passage to introduce them to the
minutes “Ice-cream is one of the most popular desserts. It is a frozen dessert
standard.
made out of milk and cream. It comes in many flavors. Though children
love ice cream the most, ice cream is made for all people of all ages.”
Structured Practice and Application
Once students understand how to find the main topic they will break out
into their groups.
Students will be broken up into
Group A- Students who are on or slightly above grade level groups to work with their partners.
Group B- Students who are approaching grade level
Group C- Students who are below grade level.
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Based on the pre-assessment all groups will be working on different
activities to help scaffold their understanding of the main topic.
Group A will work with their partner to decode each passage to find the
25 main topic through multiple choice answers. They will underline or
circle key words to help them detect the main topic. Words they can Students will work with their
minutes
underline or circle should be a word that is repeated multiple times partner to help each other read and
throughout the passage. When students finish their initial handout in answer questions regarding the
group A they will be handed multiple passages to write in the main topic mini passages.
instead of being able to choose from a multiple-choice list.
If students finish early, and responses get discussed they will move up
onto pre-reading a multiple paragraph story.
Group B will work on a Martin Luther King JR. activity where they have
to match the supporting detail to the main topic. Once completed
students will complete with their partner the multiple-choice activity that
Group A used as a warm up activity. There will be an adult guiding
them.
Group C will work closely with an ICT teacher matching up a list of They will circle or underline to
different topic ideas to what the whole idea can potentially be. After they help show their work of where
have the words sorted in 3 different columns they will come up with the their found their answers.
main topic.
Group C will continue to work with their ICT teacher. A second sheet of
stories will be provided if students are able to grasp the standard and
finish their work early.
Once all students have finished both sheets both groups will regroup at
the end of the lesson to review the answers and share with their
classmates.
Closure
Students will be able to pick their
5 Students will be asked “Can anyone give me a topic idea that we could own topic and work as a group to
minutes create our own mini passage on?” create a passage.
Work with the students to create a passage using the topic one of the
students suggested. Write topic ideas on the board.
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