Lesson Plan
All About the 5 W's
Students will be able to answer questions to show understanding of important details in a text. This can be a stand-alone lesson or a support lesson to be used prior to the Who, When, What, Where, Why, and How? lesson plan.
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Objectives
Academic
- Students will be able to answer who, when, where, how, why, and what questions to show understanding of key details in a text.
Language
- I can show understanding of a text by answering who, when, what, where, why, and how questions with sentence frames.
- I can use main ideas and important details to create a summary.
Introduction
(2 minutes)- Explain to students that today we will be learning how to express the most improtant parts of a story using who, when, what, where, why, and how questions. We will also learn some new vocabulary to ask and answer these questions.
- Write who, when, what, where, why, and how on the board. Have students turn to partners to discuss each word to see if they can come up with a definition and an example for each.