Reading Skills Lesson Plans

Below are listed lesson banks and lesson plans from a variety of Internet sources. The Web Sites listed here have been selected to complement and enrich your teaching of the ELA Middle Years Language Arts Curriculum in the Grade 9 Reading Strand.

Lesson Banks

• Language Arts Mini-Lessons - 14 mini-lessons for grades 9 - 12 from the Columbia Education Center. Grade level for each is marked.
• Alabama Learning Exchange Lesson Plans - here is a bank of well written and well supported lesson plans with a technology bent promoting both Reading and Writing skills. Locate the lesson plan according to subject and grade level by checking the appropriate boxes.

Individual Lesson/Unit Plans

• Logging Up Reading Mileage! - A flexible 'pick and mix' set of lessons designed to encourage students' personal reading. It includes a range of assessable activities which allow teachers to develop personal reading programmes to suit individual students' abilities and needs.
• Read Away - A series of lessons in which students choose either a fiction or non fiction book to read and use it to complete pre, during and after reading responses. Assessment focuses on the close reading of a selected passage with a model provided. Students complete the unit with a contribution to the What's Hot Web site.
• Become a Character: Adjectives, Character Traits, and Perspective - In this activity, students "become" one of the major characters in a book and describe themselves and other characters, using Internet reference tools to compile lists of accurate, powerful adjectives. In class discussion, students support their lists with details from the novel.
• Choosing, Chatting, and Collecting: Vocabulary Self-Collection Strategy - Students self-select new vocabulary and apply context, experience, and conversation to help them understand the meanings and uses of the words. This lesson plan, originally written for grades 6-8, uses an online script from Shakespeare so is best suited to the Saskatchewan grade nine curricula.
• Critical Reading: Two Stories, Two Authors, Same Plot? - In this lesson, students read two short stories with the same title ("The Luncheon") that have been written by two famous authors. Students compare and analyze both stories to find differences and similarities among the characters and the plot and draw conclusions as literary critics.
• Exploring Disability Using Multimedia and the B-D-A Reading Strategy - In this lesson, students apply the B-D-A (before-during-after) reading comprehension strategy as they explore varied aspects of disability by investigating rich, interactive multimedia resources. Students participate in prereading, during reading, and postreading comprehension monitoring activities as they make predictions, take notes, summarize, and state main ideas.
• Exploring Literacy in Cyberspace - This lesson introduces students to the concept of intermediality—the ability to critically read and write across varied symbol systems—to help them broaden their notions of texts and literacies. Students will read print articles and online texts, and record their active reading responses to reflect their different reading experiences.
• I've Got the Literacy Blues - In this lesson, students read "The Gift of the Magi" by O. Henry and explore the story's themes using blues music, creative writing, and media study. They then create a graphic organizer, write blues poetry, and create a mural to showcase what they have learned.
• Magazine Redux: An Exercise in Critical Literacy - Teachers can use this activity as part of a larger unit on media literacy to help students understand how and why they read and respond to different media forms. This lesson focuses specifically on analyzing the differences between print and online magazines.
• Memories Matter: The Giver and Descriptive Writing Memoirs - Students will combine reading with descriptive writing. Embedded in this project are skills such as compiling, composing, defining, describing, illustrating, rewriting, and validating.
• Name That Chapter! Discussing Summary and Interpretation Using Chapter Titles - Students name chapters in novels that they are reading, creating a cumulative list for the novel as they proceed. Sample titles are discussed and debated before the class settles on a choice. In the process, students actively explore reading comprehension, summary, paraphrase, accuracy, and connotation.
• Novel News: Broadcast Coverage of Character, Conflict, Resolution, and Setting - This twist on readers theater invites students to prepare original news programs based on incidents in a recent reading. Along the way, students explore standard literary elements of character, conflict, resolution, and setting.
• Style: Defining and Exploring an Author's Stylistic Choices - Exploring the use of style in literature helps students understand how language conveys mood, images, and meaning. In this activity, students will find examples of specific stylistic devices in sample literary passages then search for additional examples and explore the reasons for the stylistic choices that the author has made.
• Style: Translating Stylistic Choices from Hawthorne to Hemingway and Back Again - In this activity, students work in small groups to explore the stylistic choices an author makes by translating passages of one author into the style of another, then translating fables into the style of one of the authors they have been reading.
• Unlocking the Underlying Symbolism and Themes of a Dramatic Work - This lesson plan invites students to explore a character from Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun and an object associated with that character through story mapping and character-item poems. These graphic organizers and poems then become important keys to unlocking the underlying symbolism and themes in Hansberry’s play. By allowing students to discover these keys on their own, this activity encourages students to take responsibility for making meaning of the texts that they read.
• Weaving the Multigenre Web - Students analyze the elements of a novel in many different genres and then hyperlink these pieces together on student-constructed Web sites. This is a lesson which can be used with either a whole class novel, individual novels, partner books, or small group literature circles.

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