Lesson+Plan

=Lesson Plan =

=__Author:__= =__Overview:__= Students will search for a newspaper article online and find the prefixes and suffixes and main idea with supporting details in a group. The students will do various charts and then present their article to the class. =__Objectives:__= Teach students that there is a main idea to every story, how to find the main idea and support it with details. Learn what prefixes and suffixes are and identify them in sentences. =__Materials Needed:__= - Newspaper - computers with internet access - Microsoft word - Inspiration 9 - Writing paper - Pencils and erasers - scissors - Printer =__Activities and Procedures:__=
 * __Title:__** Reading Strategies
 * __Subject:__** Language Arts
 * __Grade Level:__** 3rd grade
 * 1) Put students in groups of three or four with a copy of the article. Have students make predictions on what the article is about by reading the title and captions.
 * 2) Read the article from the newspaper out loud to the class.
 * 3) Introduce prefixes and suffixes to the students. Have them identify all the ones in the article.
 * 4) Have students make a chart on Microsoft word with the prefixes, roots and suffixes with their definitions.
 * 5) Introduce the topic of what a main idea is. Ask the students what is the main idea of the article. On the board write down the main idea. Have students find two supporting details in the article by cutting them out and placing them in the middle of the table.
 * 6) Have one student from each group to write one of the supporting details on the board.
 * 7) Have students use the internet to find articles on newspaper’s Web site: http://cnn.com Print out article and allow students in each group predict what the article is about and then read their group’s chosen article.
 * 8) On a sheet of paper the students should identify the main idea out and list the supporting details.
 * 9) On Microsoft word students should type out the main idea and have supporting details in bullet list.
 * 10) On Inspiration have students create web charts having the main idea as the main bubble and the supporting details grouped as they seem necessary.
 * 11) Have groups present their articles to the class.

=__Assessment:__= The learners for whom this lesson is intended is for 3rd- 5th graders who need to learn or understand the main idea of a passage better. You would need to know their background knowledge of main idea and their reading levels. A: 3rd- 5th grade students B: identify the main idea and supporting details of stories. locate prefixes and suffixes. C: students will be given definitions of vital components of how to find the main idea, such as detail and information; an example on how to do it and combine ideas in a group. students will be given definitions of what prefixes and suffixes are, Students will use Microsoft Office as well as Inspiration to organize the main idea and supporting details. Students will use Microsoft word to list the prefixes and suffixes. D: Until students can locate the main idea and list the supporting details. Until student locate all prefixes and suffixes. The scissors help cut the newspaper and paper and pen help jot down ideas. The computer and newspaper provide the article being evaluated. In this assignment comprehension, knowledge, evaluation and analysis are used by the students. Comprehension: predicting what the article will be about. Infer the main Idea. Diagram. Knowledge: locating the main idea and supporting details. Text reading. Listing the supporting details. Evaluation: Group discussion. Analysis: Sorting/ categorizing the supporting details. Graph.

=__Standards:__= 1) LA.3.1.7.2- The student will identify a text's features (e.g., title, subheadings, captions, illustrations), use them to make and confirm predictions, and establish a purposefor reading; 2) LA.3.1.7.3: The student will determine explicit ideas and information in grade-level text, including but not limited to main idea, relevant supporting details, strongly implied message and inference, and chronological order of events. 3) LA.3.2.2.3: The student will organize information to show an understanding of main ideas within a text through charting, mapping, or summarizing. 4) LA.3.1.6.7: The student of familiar base words and affixes (prefixes and suffixes) to determine meanings of unfamiliar complex words.