PERFORMANCE TASK ACTIVITIES Days Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 5 Standards and expectations Activity: Introduction of the content focus and class routines for the year to come. What Makes PR Unique? Other Evidence: Standards and expectations Activity: Graffiti wall activity Open question “What makes PR unique and interesting?” Teacher prompts the students to generate and ask each other questions. Standards and expectations Activity: Teacher asks probing questions and provide sentence atrters and sentence frames so the students can expand their ideas to provide additional details. Standards and expectations Activity: Other evidence: Word Family Check Use attachment 3.1 Other Evidence Word Family Assessment. Standards and expectations Activity: Other evidence: Attachment 3.1 Word Family Book Fluency Check Attachment Resource 8 Paired Reading Fluency Check 1 Standards and expectations Activity: PT1 What makes PR Unique? Standards and expectations Activity: PT1 What makes PR Unique? Standards and expectations Activity: Students will begin a journal for this unit. Other evidence: Students share why they like the book they brought to the class. Discussion of What makes texts different? Standards and expectations Activity: Students discuss with the teacher the difference between fiction and non-fiction and as a class they will create a Venn Diagram to compare and contrast the genres. Standards and expectations Activity: Students answer the open question “How can non-fiction can be organized?” Teacher shows different types of graphic organizers. Working in pairs, the students read texts on Puerto Rico and find examples of how information is organized. 2 Standards and expectations Skill: Activity: Students and teacher create a poster of a “Genre Tree”. Students create the description of each genre on the tree. Standards and expectations Skill: Activity: Finish the “Genre Tree” Standards and expectations Skill: Activity: PT2 Genre Book Tracker Use Attachment 3.1 Learning Accordion Fordable Standards and expectations Skill: Activity: PT2 Standards and expectations Skills: Activity: Other evidence: Create a class chart of unknown words. The students copy the chart in their notebooks. 3 Standards and expectations Standards and expectations Standards and expectations Standards and expectations Standards and expectations 4
Skill: Activity: Again the teacher asks “What makes PR Unique and interesting?” One answer might be “ the people”. The students make a list of famous people thet represent PR. Skill: Activity: Teacher selects a biography of a famous Puerto Rican to read aloud. Teacher models how to ask questions as a reading strategy and how to look for information from a biography and where to go. Skill: Activity: Students work together to pick a person, read a biography and take notes. Skill: Activity: Teacher uses to present to the students a graphic organizer to help structure the answers. Skill: Activity: Teacher uses to model note taking and share how note taking can be used to record answers or create their own. Standards and expectations Skill: Activity: Students will create an important word list of words they want to use in their writing. Standards and expectations Skill: Activity: Other evidence: The teacher discusses how to use interviews for research in writing a biography. Working with a partner, the students interview someone from school and prepare a mini biography Standards and expectations Skill: Activity: PT3 Using Questions to Write a Biography Standards and expectations Skill: Activity: PT3 Using Questions to Write a Biography Other evidence: Standards and expectations Skill: Activity: Compare and Contrast old thinking with your new thinking of “What makes PR unique and interesting?” 5