Lesson 2 - Begin Reading

🕐 Lesson Overview

Bellringer
About the Author: Linda Sue Park
Video: Salva & Linda Sue Park
Read: Chapter 1 &2

⭐ Objectives

I can make text to self connections.
I can read A Long Walk to Water.

📏 Standards

🗽 NYSNGSS

7SL1:
Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions with diverse partners; express ideas clearly and persuasively, and build on those of others.

💖 SEL

2A.3a:
Practice perspective-taking to infer understanding of others’ thoughts, feelings, and intentions.
2A.3b:
Practice respectful curiosity to better understand others’ lived experiences.

🗒️ Lesson Plan

Anticipatory Set

As a bellringer, students will respond to the following prompt in a Turn & Talk.

Imagine you had to walk for hours every day to get clean water for your family. How would your life be different? What wouldn't you be able to do? Is there anything about your life that would be better?

The teacher will take attendance and circulate to listen in on conversations as students discuss. The teacher will then bring the class back together and invite students to share their responses. Once a few students have shared out, the class will review the agenda and objectives.

Developmental Activity

The teacher will share information about Linda Sue Park's background, including her first published work, and show a short video where she and Salva discuss the writing of A Long Walk to Water. The teacher will emphasize that Salva is a real person and that the book is based on his true story.

The teacher will then direct students to open their desk copies of A Long Walk to Water. The teacher should draw students' attention to the map in the beginning of the book and note that the class will return to it frequently throughout the unit. The class will then read aloud Chapter 1 & 2. The teacher will use the Equity Sticks strategy to select readers on a paragraph-by-paragraph basis. The teacher will pause the reading to check for understanding, introduce new vocabulary, or explain unfamiliar concepts.

Closure

The teacher will end class by showing students how to access a digital copy of A Long Walk to Water on Schoology. They may use this when completing assignments outside of class or to keep up with the reading when absent from class.

⚙️ Modifications

If in a co-taught class, a co-teacher may pull a small group of students and read with them in a smaller group setting where more individualized reading interventions may be used.