Edtpa Lessons
Edtpa Lessons
Edtpa Lessons
My students love
learning about animals
and have had units on
many different animals
throughout the year. It
is one of their favorite
topics! During a recent
book fair, three of my
students who will be
featured in this lesson
purchased a nonfiction
book about dogs.
Therefore, a focus on
a particular animal will
engage them in this
unit.
practice?
I have chosen to
complete this unit in
small group due to the
influence of Bruners
scaffolding theory. In
small group
instruction, I can
easily scaffold to meet
each individual
students needs.
Furthermore, per
Vygotskys theory of
the zone of proximal
development, this unit
has been developed
to meet each students
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Materials: What
materials will you use in
each phase of the lesson to
support student learning?
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Pre-Assessment:
How will you determine
prior knowledge?
Relation to Personal,
Cultural, or
Community Assets:
How does this lesson fit
your learners?
I will use an
anticipation guide that
includes the three
features of nonfiction
text as well as twothree that are incorrect
(ex. it includes talking
animals, characters
can use magic). I will
then review with
students the correct
answers. I will hold up
two books and ask the
students to tell me
which book is fiction
and which book is
nonfiction. I will also
ask them to explain
their reasoning.
My students love
learning about animals
and have had units on
many different animals
throughout the year. It
is one of their favorite
topics! During a recent
book fair, three of my
students who will be
featured in this lesson
purchased a nonfiction
book about dogs.
Therefore, a focus on
a particular animal will
engage them in this
unit.
I have chosen to
complete this unit in
small group due to the
influence of Bruners
scaffolding theory. In
small group
instruction, I can
easily scaffold to meet
each individual
students needs.
Furthermore, per
Vygotskys theory of
the zone of proximal
development, this unit
has been developed
to meet each students
needs in the most
developmentally
appropriate way. This
means that I will be
using age-friendly
texts, explicit models,
and meaningful
assessments that will
ensure my students
success. Following
this instruction, my
students will be able
to more fully engage
with the nonfiction
books they enjoy
reading.
Materials: What
will you use? What essential questions will you address in each segment? What
supports will you offer to differentiate instruction?
I will ask the students if they remember the vocabulary words from
yesterdays lesson. If not, I will say the vocabulary on the word wall
aloud, have the students repeat them back to me, and allow them to
tell what nonfiction/fiction means.
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Word Wall (fiction,
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Pet Pals: Pet Dogs by
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Julia Barnes
Show the book Pet Dogs: Pet Pals by Julia Barnes. I will, first, ask
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my students whether or not they think the book is fiction or
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nonfiction. After we have determined that the book is nonfiction, I will P board
begin reading. I will pause at various points in the book such as
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when I arrive at the table of contents, when I see a photograph,
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when I see a bold word, when I see a caption, and when I arrive at
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the glossary. As I stop at each of these sections, I will explain to my
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students the function of that particular vocabulary term.
To make the connection between the focus animal and the focus
literacy strategy, ask students, Why do you think we are learning
about nonfiction text and dogs? (We are learning this because we
are going to be creating our own nonfiction text about dogs.)
Watch an informational video about dogs. The videos name is Dogs:
Animals for Children, and it is produced by All Things Animal.
Model for the class the table of contents from the Julia Barnes book. E Word Wall (fiction,
Ask the students what the table of contents does. If the students are X nonfiction, table of
unable to answer, tell them that a table of contents is on the first
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page of a nonfiction book. It shows what information is in the book
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and where you can find it.
A bold word)
Model for the class the captions. Ask the students what the captions
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show. If the students are unable to answer, tell them that captions
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are short sentences that are found under pictures. These short
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sentences describe the picture.
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Model for the class the bold words. Ask the students why these
words are darker than all of the others. If they are unable to answer,
tell them that these words are darker than the other words in the
story because they are important words. These bold words tell us
things that we need to know about the story.
Model for the class the glossary. Ask the students what a glossary is
for and what does it look like. If they are unable to answer, tell the
students that the glossary is in the back of the book. The glossary
has all of the definitions of the bold words in the book.
Assessment: How will you document evidence of
Supporting Varied Student Learning Needs:
student learning? Is this formative or summative
assessment?
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My students love
learning about animals
and have had units on
many different animals
throughout the year. It
is one of their favorite
topics! During a recent
book fair, three of my
students who will be
featured in this lesson
purchased a nonfiction
book about dogs.
Therefore, a focus on
a particular animal will
engage them in this
unit.
practice?
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I will begin with a review of the first lesson (i.e. discuss fiction and
nonfiction texts, classifying books as fiction or nonfiction, and talking
about the three things that make a nonfiction book). I will use the
assessment from day two as a pre-assessment for the last day of my
unit. The students will place the terms (bold word, caption, glossary,
etc.) in the correct locations on the examples provided.
I will continue by reviewing our new vocabulary words: caption,
glossary, table of contents, illustrations/photographs. I will ask the
students to say the vocabulary aloud.
Use the Julia Barnes book to model the table of contents, the
glossary, bold words, and captions. Have a student come to the front
and identify one of the terms within the book for the class.
Review the class KWL about dogs. Add to the chart facts that were
learned about dogs on day two. Fill in any wonders that the class
may have.
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KWL Chart
Word Wall (fiction,
nonfiction, table of
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caption, photograph,
bold word)
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and reinforce important ideas about dogs that the student will use
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when writing their sentence about dogs.
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Watch an informational video about dogs. The videos name is Dogs: R
Animals for Children, and it is produced by All Things Animal.
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After we have watched the video, I will engage the students in
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discussion about things that they remember about dogs that we
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either read about or watched on the video.
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Then, I will model for the class an example of how their page about
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dogs should look. Be sure to include a sentence with a bold word, an A contents, glossary,
illustration to go with the sentence, and a caption for the illustration.
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caption, photograph,
I will then model a think aloud with the students in order to compose
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another page on the interactive smart board. I will look through the
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Pet Pals book to find a bold word and use the word in a sentence.
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The students will be given time to complete their pages.
Crayons
Next, I will collect the students pages and arrange them into a
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nonfiction text about dogs.
Paper
First, I will review every students work and check to see if they
Stapler
included a bold word, caption, and illustration.
Construction paper
Then, as a class, we will compose the glossary and table of
contents. I will then have the students identify their bold word and
record their bold word in our glossary along with a student-created
definition.
I will follow a similar format with the table of contents. I will read each
students sentence aloud and ask the class, What information
should our readers know first? Lets look at some other nonfiction
books to see how their table of contents is laid out.
I will create a cover for the class book as well made out of
construction paper. This class book will stay on display in the
classroom for students to engage with whenever they like.
Assessment: How will you document evidence of
Supporting Varied Student Learning Needs:
student learning? Is this formative or summative
assessment?
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For my non-struggling students, I will commend For my non-struggling students, they will use
them on their sentence building skills. I will also the feedback regarding sentence building
ask why they chose that particular bold word to whenever they are working in their notebooks. I
include in their sentence so that they
expect them to be very careful and attentive to
understand how important bold words are in
their notebook work after composing their
nonfiction text.
nonfiction page for this unit. Some of my higher
For my struggling students, I will be closely
performing students will probably even try to
monitoring their work. I will allow them to use a
use bold words in their writing!
copy of the Gail Gibbons book to help find a
For my struggling students, they will use the
bold word and use it in their sentence. I will ask scaffolding method of a think aloud that I
them questions such as, Why are words
provided to correct their work and self-monitor
bolded? or Where can I find captions? to
the work that they have left to complete.
scaffold their thinking into composing an
accurate representation of nonfiction text. For
my non-struggling students, I will commend
them on their sentence building skills. I will also
ask why they chose that particular bold word to
include in their sentence so that they
understand how important bold words are in
nonfiction text.
For my struggling students, I will be closely
monitoring their work. I will allow them to use a
copy of the Gail Gibbons book to help find a
bold word and use it in their sentence. I will ask
them questions such as, Why are words
bolded? or Where can I find captions? to
scaffold their thinking into composing an
accurate representation of nonfiction text.
Future Planning: How does this lesson support the upcoming portions of the unit to guide further learning?
The students visit the library at least twice a week. After completing this work with nonfiction
books, I would ask the students to check out a nonfiction book from the library on their next visit. I
would then display the book whole group and allow the five students that were selected to
participate in this unit to teach about nonfiction texts and the features of nonfiction texts.
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