Module 2 Planning an Integrated Common Core Literature Lesson.

Module 2Planning an Integrated

Common Core Literature Lesson

Objectives• Deepen our understanding

of the Common Core Reading Literature Standards

• Plan a series of lessons that integrate the Common Core ELA Standards

• Incorporate strategies that support collaboration and text-based discussions

NormsRespect for all

perspectives

Active listening and participation

Maintain a positive outlook and attitude

Proactive problem solving

Assumption of positive intent

Whittier City School District’s Instructional Focus

Developing deep comprehension and interpretive skills using literature and informational text, with an implicit focus on informational text and expository

writing

Close Reading Text based discussions

Constructed Response/Text

Dependent Questions

Building Knowledge through

content-rich nonfiction and informational texts and

literature

Instructional Shifts

Reading and writing grounded in

evidence

Rich and rigorous conversations, dependent on common text

Instructional Strategies

Debrief

• Bring out your artifacts from the Close Reading lessons.

• Reflect with a partner. (3 minutes each)• What went well?• What surprises did you encounter?• What were the challenges?

• Group Share

Team Planning ProcessAssign roles

Timekeeper: Keeps track of timeRecorder: Records work on templateFacilitator: Guides the team Scribe: Charts the team’s work Reader: Reads the text and each pivotal

passage

Integrated Common CoreLesson Planning Tool

Examine A Text

Task: Reader reads the text aloud. Team members take turns retelling the story,

focusing on significant details and events.Take time to clarify and make sure everyone

has a full understanding of the text. 10 min

What makes a text worthy?

• Can we integrate multiple standards within this text?• Are there rich characters that can be analyzed?• Is there a message or a lesson the reader can learn?• Does the author use craft techniques that we can

study?• Can it connect with other rich texts?• Does it promote discussion of open-ended

questions?

Planning For Close Reading

Determine what themes are emerging after reading the text

Elaborate on the theme What is this story saying or showing us about________?Examples: Friendship: Friends accept you for who you are. Acceptance: Everybody wants to belong. Bravery: People show bravery when confronted with social

injustice. It’s important to stand up for what you believe in.

5 minRecorder documents your group’s ideas on the planning template.

Examining the Standards

What Reading Literature Standards seem to be most suited for this text?

5 minRecorder documents on planning template

Planning For The First Read

Decide if any information must be frontloaded• Is it essential?• If they don’t know it, will it get in the way of

understanding?• How will you briefly share this information with students

without revealing information students can discover?

5 min

Recorder documents on planning template

Decide if any vocabulary needs to be clarified• Identify challenging vocabulary you will define

in context during the first read.• Make note of the words and agree upon the

definitions you will use.

Define in Context Strategy• Read the sentence from the text. • Briefly define the word.• Reread the sentence and continue reading.


5 min



Decide how students will experience the First Read• Read Aloud, Whisper Read, Choral Read, Partner Read, Independent

Read

Decide how students will recount the story after the first read

• Whip around• Talking stick/chips• Partner retell• Chart paper/scenes, Flow Map• Others?

What are the main events/key details we want to be sure students include in the retell?


5 min


Chunk the text into Pivotal PassagesWhat sections merit a second read?

• Important scenes and memorable moments • Subtle yet significant details in the text• Lengthy and substantial interaction• Natural start and end to a scene, event or conversation• Limit pivotal passages to no more than 4

*Be sure pivotal passages support understanding of the theme

10 min

All members draw lines on the text to indicate pivotal passages.


Determine Understandings to be Developed• What do we want students to understand after

rereading each pivotal passage?Task:• The reader rereads each pivotal passage.• The team creates a statement that captures the

understanding to be developed for each pivotal passage.

Recorder documents on planning templateScribe charts understandings to be developed

20 min

Planning Tool:Text-based Questions

10 mins.


Uncovering Theme In Literature

Notice:• Character development• Relationships, wants, needs, struggles• How characters change• How the author reveals the character through the

characters’ thoughts, feelings, actions, appearance• The points of view of characters• What the character is learning


Develop Text Based Questions• Draft questions that will help students get

to the understanding that needs to be developed.• Ensure questions lead students back to the

text and support discussion.• Sequence questions in a logical order.

45 minRecorder documents on planning templateScribe charts

Interactive Structures

Determine interactive structures for each question.Interactive Structure Options• Whip Around• Heads Together• Talking Stick/ Talking Chips• Think, Pair, Share• Think, Write, Pair, Share• Partner work• Quick Write• Constructed Response 15 min.

Recorder documents on planning templateScribe charts


Enduring Questions:• Are questions students could think about and

discuss while reading the text that help them uncover the theme

• This is the last question asked after each pivotal passage to build up to the culminating question


Examples of Enduring Questions: (Choose one or create your own)• What does the author want us to understand?• How is the character changing?• What are we learning about ______ ?• What is the story really about?• What are we learning about the character?

5 minRecorder documents on planning templateScribe charts


Develop a culminating question for discussion and constructed response• This question will be asked to engage the class in

an extended discussion about the theme.• Students will also answer this question in writing.

(constructed response) • As a team, brainstorm possible responses.


Develop a culminating question for discussion and constructed response

Examples: (Choose one or create your own)• What is the author’s message about _______?• What is the story telling us about ________?• What is the lesson, or moral, in this story?• How does the character overcome ________?• How does the author develop the idea of _______

throughout the story?• What does the author want us to learn?


Scribe charts

5 min

Identify Standards Addressed

Based on the questions and interactive structures from each pivotal passage:• Which Reading Standards are we addressing? • Which Listening and Speaking Standards are we

addressing?• Which Writing Standards are we addressing?

5 min


Next Steps

• Schedule a time to teach the lessons and debrief the process

• Strengthen and Grow Partnerships• Add on to your current Discussion Stems• Apply the grade level planning tool to another story• Bring artifacts (charts, student work samples, videos,

pictures, notes)

Thank you!

Module 2 Planning an Integrated Common Core Literature Lesson.

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