Reading Workshop Lesson Framework

Grade Level:2nd Grade / Text/Author: The Raft by Jim LaMarche
Unit Name/Quarter(Atlas): Author’s Craft: Literacy/ 4thQuarter
Warm up (vocab, phonics, etc.)
Based on teacher’s lesson plans—pulled from or linked to the story. I want to discuss the following list of academic vocabulary: key details, central message, events, story elements, and evolve.
I can Statement:
I can use information gained from illustrations and words to understand characters, setting, or plot. / Essential Question
How does understanding the point of view/ author's purpose help me better understand what I read?
Direct Instruction
Pre-reading:
Begin the lesson with a concrete example that will help students to connect to the central message of the story. Bring in a box or container of some sort filled with objects that you have previously selected. Explain to the class that this is your "Memory Box." Take out objects from the box one at a time and have them guess why it is special to you. After you have revealed several objects, tell the students that you want them to remember the Memory Box, and at the end of the lesson you will ask them to explain how the Memory Box connects to the story.
Introduce the book to the class and explain that they are going to read the story using a close reading strategy. Explain the close reading process we will be using for this text:
  • First Reading: We will read a portion of the story aloud and then discuss the story elements in that section of the text.
  • Second Reading: Students will reread the same section and mark their text as directed. Students will re-read the section and then continue reading the book, answering text-based questions:
  • Why does Nicky need to spend the summer with his grandma?
  • Where does his grandma live?
  • Describe his grandma’s house.
  • Why does Nicky not do what his grandma suggests in the beginning of the story?
  • Which animals and wildlife appear throughout the story?
  • Nicky’s grandma was not surprised by the raft. Why is this?
  • What has his grandma been waiting to give to Nicky?
  • What happens to the doe and fawn? How does Nicky help?
As we read the story we are going to use the illustrations (pictures) and the words of the text tohelp teach me about how characters change and evolve throughout a story, and how characters' actions contribute to events in a story
Mini Lesson topic: How characters change and evolve throughout a story, and how characters' actions contribute to events in a story.
Materials:
The Raft by Jim LaMarche
Chart Stand
Chart Paper
Anchor Chart with the Essential Question/I Can statement
Markers
Blank paper / Connection
Have you ever been unhappy? (text to self) Talk to your elbow partner about when you’ve been unhappy and why.
Teaching Point
Illustrations and text work together to help the reader understandhow key details and events help us to better understand the central message.
Active Engagement
What does Jim LaMarche want boys and girls to think about after reading this story? Allow them to share.
Link
Now you will go back to your seats and write what did Nicky learn during his summer with his grandma? When you finish your writing you can draw a picture to go with it. You have 10 minutes. I will be walking around the room to help with any questions.
Assessment:
Students will write and recount the key details of the beginning, middle, and end of the story.
Allow students to share experiences.
Reflection/Closure:(10 minutes)
Essential Question(restate):How does understanding the point of view/ author's purpose help me better understand what I read?
Standard(s): Grades 1 Standard:
RI 6.1 Retell the central idea and key details from multi-paragraph texts; summarize the text by stating the topic of each paragraph heard, read, or viewed
RL.6.1 Use information gained from illustrations and words in a print or multimedia text to demonstrate understanding of its characters, setting, or plot. / Whole group:I will have a few students share their writing.
Notes: