English Lesson Plan

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Grade Level: Third Grade, Dual-Immersion Teacher: Miss Gomez / Miss K / Maestra Gomez
Subject: English, Reading
Select grade level appropriate standards:
1. Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to
the text as the basis for the answers.
2. Describe characters in a story (e.g., their traits, motivations, or feelings) and explain how
1 their actions contribute to the sequence of events.
Common Core
and Content 3. Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
Standard(s) a. Read on-level text with purpose and understanding.
b. Read on-level prose and poetry orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on
successive readings.
c. Use context to confirm or self-correct word recognition and understanding, rereading, as
necessary.
2 What materials and resources will you and the students need for the lesson?
Materials/ ● Copy of Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst
Resources/ ● Cause & Effect Activity:
Lesson - Piece of blank printer paper
Preparation - Drawing materials (i.e. markers, crayons, etc.
 Matching Vocab “Quiz” ziploc with pieces of paper that have terms and definitions
What should students know and be able to do after the lesson?
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Objective(s) Students will have a better understanding of cause and effect, while learning new vocabulary
words from the reading, and be able to use their creativity and what they learned to describe an
example of cause and effect from the book.
Level 1: Recall Level 2: Skill/Concept
Level 3: Strategic Thinking Level 4: Extended Thinking

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Webb’s Depth of Explain how the lesson addresses each box you checked:
Knowledge Level Recall: Students will have to use the lesson given to them on cause and effect and give an
example of cause and effect that occurred in the reading.
Skill/ Concept: Students will apply what they know about cause and effect and organize their
thoughts by applying cause and effect to the book.
Demonstrating independence Building strong content knowledge
Responding to varying demands of audience, task, purpose, and discipline
Comprehending as well as critiquing Valuing evidence
Using technology and digital media strategically and capably
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Coming to understand other perspectives and cultures
College and
Career Ready
Skills Explain how the lesson addresses each box you checked:
Building strong content: By applying cause and effect to the reading, students will gain a better
understanding of the book and the characters.
Comprehending as well as critiquing: Not only will students understand the overall plot of the
story but also be able to analyze why certain events of character’s feelings led to specific
consequences and actions.
Coming to understand other perspectives and cultures: By exploring the causes and effects of
the reading, students come to see the different feelings and emotions of characters that led to
certain events taking place.
SAUSD Common Core Lesson Template (adapted)
Communication Collaboration Critical Thinking Creativity
Explain how the lesson addresses each box you checked:

Communication: At the end of the lesson students will work on a handout which will then be
6 discussed in groups and then as a class by defining cause and effect, applying the topic to the
book, and to real life.
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21 Century Collaboration: When going over examples of cause and effect as a class, students will collaborate
Skills as a whole to list the events that caused others to take place. Students will also work together on
matching vocab “quiz”.
Creativity: Students will decide on one cause-effect pair and use a piece of paper to draw the
cause on one side and the effect on the other. On the back of the paper, each student will describe
how the cause led to the effect.
Lesson Delivery
Identify vocabulary and key terms that are important for students to know to understand the lesson:
Lesson Terms:
● Cause: make something happen
● Effect: something that happens because of something else
7 Reading Vocabulary:
Vocabulary/Key ● Mistake: to do something wrong
Terms ● Terrible: very bad
● Breakfast: meal eaten in the morning
● Scrunched: crushed or squeezed
● Invisible: not able to be seen
● Scold: speak to someone angrily
8 Describe how you will adapt your lesson for the following learners:
Differentiated
● English Learners:
Instruction
Students can work together to study vocab terms and ask for help when working on Cause
and Effect Activity, Students can also ask for help with certain words when popcorn
reading
- I can help English learners during lunch or after school with reading the book or
with vocabulary if needed
● Special Needs:
Special Needs student can have a partner to help with reading and I can provide help and
feedback while guiding them along the way
● Accelerated (Gifted/Talented)
Students can help and provide feedback to those who are struggling a bit more than others
and give them extra assignments to take home for next lesson, to get ahead
9 Describe at least TWO different types of formal or informal assessments you will use during your
Assessments lesson to check for student learning:
One type of informal assessment I will use during my lesson to check for student learning is using
a Cause and Effect Activity where students will draw out an example of cause and effect from
the reading before going over the examples as a class. Another informal assessment I will use is a
Matching Vocab “Quiz” where students will work as groups to match each term to a definition
and the first group that matches them correctly first wins a prize.
10 Prior Knowledge, Context, and Motivation (How will you connect the beginning of the lesson
Lesson to what students already know and/or motivate them to learn about the topic?)
Delivery
Describe each step of the lesson

Teacher will… Students will…
● Go over vocabulary before reading and ● Make flashcards and be ready to take
have students make flashcards or study quiz at end of the week/lesson
using an online program (Quizlet,
Kahoot, etc.)
● Define cause and effect and give real ● Listen and take notes on cause and
life examples, suggest for students to effect to be ready to apply to reading
keep topic in mind while listening to
the reading
● Read Alexander and the Terrible, ● Listen and be respectful to others, be
Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day as a ready to read out loud
class (Popcorn read)
● Hand out copy of book to each group
● Have students complete Cause and ● Work on Cause and Effect Activity by
Effect Activity folding paper in half (hamburger style)
● Go over examples from reading of but fill out horizontally, on one side
cause and effect that students found, write “cause” and other side write
write on whiteboard “effect”, draw example of cause and
● VOCAB “QUIZ”! (Students will make effect from reading
flashcards or notes beforehand)
- Quiz will not be actual quiz; ● Students will have 2-5 minutes before
students will work in groups to “quiz” to study vocabulary definitions
match each word to a definition and spelling of each word
- One set of cards will be terms,
other set will be definitions
- Whichever group matches
them correctly first gets a prize

Vocabulary Quiz
Students will be team up with their table groups to complete this vocabulary “quiz”. The objective is to
match each word with its definition and the first group to finish wins a prize!
Cause Make something happen
Effect Something that happens because of something

else
Mistake To do something wrong
Terrible Very bad
Scrunched Crushed or squeezed
Invisible Not able to be seen
Scold Speak to someone angrily

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Common Core Lesson Planner

Level 3: Strategic Thinking Level 4: Extended Thinking

Explain how the lesson addresses each box you checked:

Describe each step of the lesson

SAUSD Common Core Lesson Template (adapted)

SAUSD Common Core Lesson Template (adapted)

Cause Make something happen

Effect Something that happens because of something

Mistake To do something wrong

Terrible Very bad

Scrunched Crushed or squeezed

Invisible Not able to be seen

Scold Speak to someone angrily

SAUSD Common Core Lesson Template (adapted)

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