Lesson Plan
Making Predictions and Summarizing
Help your ELs use transition words as they make predictions and summarize a short fictional text. This lesson can be used as a stand alone activity or a support lesson.
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Objectives
Academic
Students will be able to make predictions and summarize a fictional text.
Language
Students will be able to make predictions and summarize a fictional text with transition words using a sequencing activity and paragraph frame.
Introduction
(2 minutes)- Activate prior knowledge of predictions by modeling a scenario that fits your class routine/culture. For example, act as if you are getting ready to administer a test, do a craft, or something similar. Have students make a guess as to what will happen next based on one or two pieces of evidence.
- Write the following sentence frame on the board:
- Based on ________, I believe that ________ will happen next.
- Allow students to share their ideas and record them on the whiteboard.
- Explain that today they will be learning to recognize how transition words support us in making predictions and summarizing short fictional texts.
- Call on a volunteer to read the learning goal for the day: "I can make predictions and summarize a fictional text with transition words using a sequencing activity and paragraph frame."
- Call on a volunteer to find the transition word (next) in the sentence frame you wrote on the board.
