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Title of Text: Allen Jay and the Underground Railroad Author/Illustrator: Marlene Targ Brill/ Janice Lee Porter GRL: N Series: On My Own History Genre/Curriculum Link: Fiction/Social Studies Standard: Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers. Lesson Objectives: To ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of the text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers. To use questioning as the strategy and to use main idea and details as the skill Skill: Main Idea and Details Comprehension Strategy: Questioning Fluency: Appropriate Speed Academic Vocabulary: explain or research the meanings of the words below. Discuss the morphology of the words: suffixes, taking a root word and adding to it to change the meaning of the word. Have students talk about the meaning of each word, using antonyms, synonyms and situations where each word can be used correctly. a. underground b. runaway c. understood d. footprints e. cornstalks f. cornfield Foundational Skills: Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words. To focus on decoding multi
syllable words. Look at the title of the book. The words underground and Railroad are multi syllable.
Before Reading: ENGAGE! THINK! MODEL! 1. Build Background Knowledge a. Let’s look at the front and back cover. What do you know about the Underground Railroad? b. What would you like to learn? c. What do you think that Allen Jay has to do with the Underground Railroad? d. What is a Underground Railroad? 2. Skill Introduction: a. Main Idea and Details – Read the back cover and ask the students to identify the main ideas from the back cover. 3. Strategy Introduction: a. Questioning – What does Allen Jay do to help the runaway slave? 4. Fluency: Appropriate Speed – listen as I read the first 2 sentences on page 4. (read them very fast and then at a normal speed)ask – how did my reading too fast impede learning? Standard ‐ Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers. What is an Underground Railroad? How is Allen Jay involved in the Underground Railroad? Asking these questions will help us find the answers as we read the text. ELL Support: ‐ Modeling ‐ Photographs ‐ Glossary Paired Reading to Build Text Complexity:
‐ Headings/Captions ‐ Guided Interaction ‐ Strategy Instruction ‐ Explicit Instruction ‐ Highlighted Vocabulary ‐ Vocabulary Instruction Copyright © 2012 by Lerner Publishing Group, Inc. Lerner Digital™ and Lerner eSource™ are trademarks of Lerner Publishing Group, Inc. All rights reserved. www.lernerbooks.com During Reading: Don’t Wait Until It’s Too Late! Check for Understanding (Stop after page 2 ) 1.
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Tell me about a part you didn’t understand? Turn and Talk: how is using the strategy of questioning helpful in your reading? Why would slaves runaway? Main Idea and Details – What is the main idea of this book? What are some of the details that you have read so far? Standard ‐ Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers. The Jay family helped the slaves to get to the Underground Railroad. What role did Allen play in Henry James’s life? After Reading: 1. What did you learn? What surprised you? 2. What more do you want to learn about this topic? 3. What did Allen Jay do to help the slave Henry James? 4.
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Standard: What is the most important thing to remember from this book? What are the details that can help you remember this? What happen to Henry James after Allen left him at his Grandfather’s cabin? Theme –Helping others was one theme in this book. What was another theme? How did the author help us understand it’s a theme? Character Analysis ‐ What character trait would you say that Allen Jay had? Can you name more traits? Standard: Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers. 8. Academic Vocabulary: Two vocabulary words: cornstalks and cornfields begin the same. What makes them different and what does each of the words mean? Is there a special name for these words? If so, what is it? Writing Standard: Write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons. a. Introduce the topic or text they are writing about, state an opinion, and create an organizational structure that lists reasons. b. Provide reasons that support the opinion. c. Use linking words and phrases (e.g., because, therefore, since, for example) to connect opinion and reasons. d. Provide a concluding statement or section. Task: Do you think you could have done what Allen Jay did? Why or why not? Use the points above to help you? IF/THEN: Main Idea and Details ‐ if a student is having trouble identifying main ideas and details and summarizing larger parts of the book, have each student to read just a few pages and then ask them to identify and summarize what they have read. Then, continue doing the same until they have read the whole book. Then, have them to summarize the entire book in a few sentences. Copyright © 2012 by Lerner Publishing Group, Inc. Lerner Digital™ and Lerner eSource™ are trademarks of Lerner Publishing Group, Inc. All rights reserved. www.lernerbooks.com