Lesson-Asking Questions While Reading
Lesson Topic: Questioning. Subject: English/ Writing
IN Standards and Indicators: 1.RL.2.1 Ask and answer questions about main idea and key details in a text.
Lesson Objective: Students will be able to make up one at least question for before, during, and after reading a passage and be able to answer at least 2 questions found in the passage.
Materials/Media: dry erase whiteboard, 20 question cards, A winning team, The day I Tried to Cook…, Making Cookies, post it notes, poster,
Motivation: Today we are going to play 20 questions to help students start generating questions during the lesson. During the game the students are going to be the guessers. Each student will have a whiteboard. During the game, students will go around in a circle and ask ONE question. I will have sample questions written out so the students have ideas if they are stuck. When the students think they got the answer, they are to write in on their whiteboard and flip it towards their desk until everyone has asked one question.
For example : I am an elephant
Sample questions for students -suggestions you can make up your own!
Are you alive?
Do I eat you?
Can I find you in my house?
Can I find you in my school?
Are you an animal?
Are you bigger than my desk?
Are you smaller than my eraser?
What color are you?
Are you wet?
Do you live in a house?
Can you find you in the zoo?
Can I find you in ocean?
Do I see you everyday?
Do you eat meat?
Do you eat vegetables?
What are you made of?
Do you drink juice?
Can I sit on you?
Would you find me in a school?
Can you find me in Muncie IN?
Rationale: Today, boys and girls, we are learning how to ask questions before, during and after you read. In the end you will be creating your own questions and answering them using the text.
Teach: To become a good reader, you need to ask questions before during and after a story. We ask questions to help us understand what we are reading. We ask questions before , during and after we read. To help generate questions you can use the 5 ‘s for help.
5 W’s
Who
What
Where
Why
When
When writing questions students need to start the question with a capital letter and end it with a question mark.
We use the text to find our answers.
Check for understanding: How often do we ask questions as we read? How do we end a question? What are the 5 W's?
Activities:
Demonstrative: I will have copies of the winning team for the group. First I will pick it up. And look at the text. Before I start reading, I need to think about questions or predictions I have about the text. I will add my questions on a before, during and after reading chart using post it notes.
Then I will start reading the passage and if I come to a part I questions I am going to jot down my questions under questions while reading.
Then after I read I need to think about questions or comments I still have.
Lastly we need to look at all our questions and see if we can answer them. We might need to reread the text, phone a friend , use context clues, make accurate guesses, or use our opinion. If we find the answer directly in the text underline it our highlight the word.
Guided: We are going to look at our passage as a group and read it together. The students are going to help generate questions as we go and find the answers. I am going to fill it on the poster while they do it in their packets. The passage is called “The Day I Tried to Cook” by: Sue Peterson. First we will look at the text and pictures to generate questions or comments. Second we will read and stop occasionally to see if we have comments and questions as we go. Third we will see if we can come up with questions or comments at the end as a group. Lastly we will see if we can answer our questions.
Check for understanding: On a scale of I got this and I need help. If you think you can do this on your own I want you to do a thumbs up. If you think you might need some help do thumbs side ways. If you think you need a lot of help do thumbs down. Show you were you think you are.
Assessment/ Evaluation of student learning: Students will be given a passage called “Making Cookies”. Students are able to read on their own if they feel comfortable or I will read it out loud and stop for them to come up with questions. I will have a couple variations based on the same story. For the students struggling , I will gear it down by having two questions created for the student. The students are to answer the questions and come up with one question and answer. Students who are above grade level will have to create 3 question and will have answer them on the same passage. Students on level will have one question created for them and will need to create two more questions and answer them. I will determine groups by what I see in the lesson and their ranking of their self.
*I am not worried about spelling but sentences must start with capital letter and with a period or question mark.
Review: Today boys and girls we learned how to ask questions as we read. Do we only create questions at the end of a story? Sometimes do you need to look up the answer? What does all questions start with? What do all questions end with? What do periods end with?
