"Let's Go!" English Language arts is an engaging, interactive, class for upper elementary students. Reading comprehension is crucial over academic success. Often, students who struggle with foundational concepts of reading are left behind as they climb higher in grade levels. Remediating learning blocks for readers becomes more difficult as students get older because they often develop a negative attitude towards reading. My goal is to help students achieve leveled success and develop a love for reading. 

Lesson Plans:
Week 1 

Topic" Making Inferences from fictional text
STANDRAD: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.1 Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.

OBJECTIVE: Students will be able to draw inference for text and support them using quotes from the text.

MATERIALS:  Provided by the teacher

LESSON PROCEDURE: 

1. Warm up- Text genre min-lesson and game (7 min) 

2. Explicit instruction of lesson objectives (15 min)
  a. Inference comprehension strategies
  b. Virtual Fieldtrip to an abandoned village (making inferences from photographs)
  c. High interest text popcorn reading of a fictional text, "Vanishers"- 
3. Guided practice exercises in Nearpod using provided materials (20)
4. Exit Ticket quiz (Remaining time) 

Week 2: 
Topic: Determining theme in fictional text

STANDRAD: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.2
Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text, including how characters in a story or drama respond to challenges or how the speaker in a poem reflects upon a topic; summarize the text.

OBJECTIVE: Students will be able to identify the theme or a short story

MATERIALS:  Provided by the teacher

LESSON PROCEDURE: 

1. Students will review determining inferences from passages game drill (7 min) 

2. Explicit instruction of lesson objectives (15 min)
  a. common Themes in literature
  b. Virtual fieldtrip to space
  c.  High interest text popcorn reading of a fictional text "A Pterodragon of a Different Color"
  d.   Post reading comprehension discussion       

Week 3: 

Topic: Comparing and Contrasting character traits of characters in a fictional text Part 1

STANDARD: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.3
Compare and contrast two or more characters, settings, or events in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text (e.g., how characters interact).

OBJECTIVE: Students will be able to compare and contrast characters in a fictional story

MATERIALS:  Provided by the teacher

LESSON PROCEDURE: 

1. Students will review determining theme game drill (7 min) 

2. Explicit instruction of lesson objectives (15 min)
  a. Story Elements lecture (Characters and their traits) 
  b. Virtual fieldtrip to a stary night
  c. Partial reading of the fictional text, "The Long Night"- 
  d. Character traits discussion

 Week 4: 

Topic:  Narrators point of view

STANDARD: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.6
Describe how a narrator's or speaker's point of view influences how events are described.

OBJECTIVE: Students will be able to describe how the 3rd person point of view effect the description of the events of the story

MATERIALS:  Provided by the teacher

LESSON PROCEDURE: 

1. Character traits review game (7 min) 

2. Explicit instruction of lesson objectives (15 min)
  a. Characteristics of 3rd person point of view 
  b. Complete the fictional text, "The Long Night"- 
  c. Point of view exit ticket

Week 5: 

Topic:  Compare and Contrast the point of view of 2 texts 

STANDARD: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.6Describe how a narrator's or speaker's point of view influences how events are described.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.9 Compare and contrast stories in the same genre (e.g., mysteries and adventure stories) on their approaches to similar themes and topics.

OBJECTIVE: Students will be able to compare and contrast "Vanishers" and "The Long Night" in the point of view and themes of the stories. 

MATERIALS:  Provided by the teacher

LESSON PROCEDURE: 

1. Review theme and point of view game (7 min) 

2. Explicit instruction of lesson objectives (15 min)
  a. Discuss key details in both texts
  b. Use evidence from the text to support the details

3. Guided practice and student collaboration 
4. Student collaboration discussion and lesson completion