Inquiry Training Lesson Plan

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Inquiry Training Model Lesson Plan

Lesson Title: Making Judgments

Targeted Grade Level: 2nd/3rd Grade

Academic Subject: English Language Arts/Reading

Lesson Goals:

Students will be able to investigate their thinking by recognizing and understanding their
judgements about themselves and others through reading by using the inquiry training model.

Lesson Objectives:

 Students will understand the meaning of judgement.


 Students will make connections while reading by asking themselves questions,
formulating opinions, and making decisions about what they read.
 Students will be able to use judgement to determine what is true when reading.

Materials/Resources Needed:

 Junie B. Jones is Not a Crook book


 Writing journals
 Pencils

Lesson Components:

Phase One: Confrontation with the Problem

The teacher will first discuss judgments and why they are so important. The teacher may state,
“When you make a judgement about a person we may interact with or a character in a story, we
make that decision based off our own experiences and beliefs that we believe or facts that we
know. Making judgements as you read can help you become a better reader by being able to
understand the context in which the author is trying to display the character.”

First the teacher will tell a story about a time when she was a young girl. “I was riding my bike
home from school when a car pulled out in front of me, almost hitting me. I was able to avoid the
crash by quickly moving out of the way. I immediately thought to myself that this driver was a
horrible, mean person. The teacher can use this story as a way to open the floor for students’
thoughts about if the teacher’s assumption as a child was true by asking yes/no type questions.

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Phase Two: Data Gathering -Verification

During phase two students should ask several questions in order to help formulate a
judgment/hypothesis to experiment with about the assumption that their teacher gave. Students
may ask, “Did the driver see you? Was it your turn to cross the street? Was the driver speeding?
How do you know that the person is truly mean and a bad person?

Phase Three: Data Gathering – Experimentation

In phase three students may introduce new elements into the situation to see what could happen
if the event happens differently, or if the teacher knew more information about the driver.

Phase Four: Organizing, Formulating and Explanation

In phase four based off the verified information and experimentation or further analysis the
teacher allows the students to start formulating their explanation or judgments.

Phase Five: Analysis of the Inquiry Process

Lastly, in phase five students will analyze their patterns of inquiry in which their judgement was
determined. They will highlight questions that were effective in helping them make their
judgements as opposed to questions that were not helpful. Or answers that were needed but not
obtained.

Evaluation:

The teacher will assign a reading assignment for students to test their judgements based off the
book that they are reading in class and at home, Junie B. Jones is Not a Crook. In the book Junie
spots a shiny cool pen while taking a drink at the water fountain and since someone took her new
mittens, she felt that it was fair to take the pen. The teacher will pose the question, “What
judgement can we make about Junie’s thoughts and actions? Students should provide detailed
reasoning behind why they support or do not support her actions by gathering information,
verifying, experimenting, and explaining their reasoning behind their judgement in their writing
journals that will be submitted to the teacher.

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