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This document outlines a 5th grade lesson plan on synthesizing non-fiction texts. The lesson introduces synthesizing skills and has students practice this by reading an article and writing a synthesis paragraph. It includes learning objectives, assessments, materials, prior knowledge, instructional steps, questions to ask students, and plans for classroom management and closing the lesson.

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Literacy-Synthesizing 1

This document outlines a 5th grade lesson plan on synthesizing non-fiction texts. The lesson introduces synthesizing skills and has students practice this by reading an article and writing a synthesis paragraph. It includes learning objectives, assessments, materials, prior knowledge, instructional steps, questions to ask students, and plans for classroom management and closing the lesson.

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1.

Title of Lesson and Grade Level: Synthesizing Non-fiction, Grade 5


2. Essential Questions:
a. How do we synthesize while reading nonfiction text?
3. Standards:
a. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.5.1 Quote accurately from a text when
explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the
text.
b. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.5.8 Explain how an author uses reasons
and evidence to support particular points in a text, identifying which reasons and
evidence support which point(s).
4. Learning Objectives/Assessments
Learning Objectives

Assessments

SWBAT synthesize nonfiction texts.

Sentence Starter Activity.

SWBAT identify verbs in sentences and


generate definitions for their vocabulary for
the week used in those sentences.

Turn and Talk.

5. Materials
a. Clipboard, white lined paper and pencil
b. Remembering a Forgotten President article
6. Prior Knowledge
a. Students in previous lessons reviewed the comprehension
strategy of synthesis with fables and fiction stories. In the lesson prior, they
created an anchor chart for the strategy of synthesis. Also in the previous lesson,
students reviewed the vocabulary terms for the week.
7. Lesson Beginning
a. Students will review their 5 vocabulary words for the week in a
culminating verb and vocabulary activity. The words are elect, nominate,
conclude, executive, and judicial. Students will be asked to Turn and Talk with
their partner to identify the verb in the sentence. Once the verb is identified
students will Turn and Talk to generate a definition for the underlined vocabulary
word.
8. Instructional Plan
a. The teacher will display an anchor chart from the previous day
about the comprehension strategy of synthesis to the students. Teacher will ask
students to describe synthesis. Teacher will then ask the students to describe
how they used synthesis to read fiction the previous day. The teacher will then
introduce synthesizing for nonfiction texts.
b. Teacher will model the synthesis with the article Washington
Monument. Teacher will have the students Turn and Talk with their partners
about their thinking as the article progresses. Once the article is complete,
teacher will share her synthesis of the article. Students will then be asked to
volunteer their synthesis.

c. Teacher will display sentence starters on the board, and explain to


students the benefit of using a sentence starter during synthesis.
d. Students will be given the article Remembering a Forgotten
President and will be assigned a partner. In pairs, students will read and write
notes on how their thinking changed. Then they will use one sentence starter to
write a synthesis paragraph using evidence from the text. They will then compare
their synthesis with each other.
e. Differentiation:
i.
Early finishers: Those who finish early will compare
their synthesis with another pair.
ii.
Those who need extra help: Teacher will be cycling
the room and checking in with pairs asking them to describe their thinking
and their synthesis.
f. Questions:
i.
Every 4 years in November, we elect the next
President of the United States.
ii.
Teachers nominate students for the Oscars.
iii.
The judicial branch is one of the three branches of
government.
iv.
The teacher concluded class by handing out treats.
v.
The President can issue an executive order.
vi.
What is synthesis?
vii.
How did we use synthesis to read fiction?
viii.
What is your synthesis of Washington Monument?
ix.
What is your synthesis of Remembering a
Forgotten President?
x.
If we wanted to define synthesis in our own words,
how would you define it?
g. Classroom Management:
i.
Seating Arrangement: Students will gather on the
carpet for the whole group and then can work with the partner in a place
of their choosing around the classroom.
ii.
Distribution of Materials: Students will bring their
clipboard, paper, and pencils to the carpet. Remembering a Forgotten
President will be on the blue table for students to pick up.
h. Transitions: Students will gather at the carpet with their materials,
and spread out with their partner to anywhere in the classroom.
9. Closure
a. Students will gather at the carpet and the teacher will ask students
to volunteer their synthesis of the article. Teacher will then have students
volunteer to share a definition of synthesis in their own words.

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