Explicit Cell Vis
Explicit Cell Vis
Explicit Cell Vis
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Think, Pair, Share x Admit Slip/Exit Slip x WTL
Lesson Introduction:
Include an introductory statement about what students will be learning to do and a brief
explanation of how this strategy will be useful to them as readers.
Today we are going to be using visualizing to help us remember the 2 types of cells and
their shapes. Good readers visualize when they read. If we take the time to get a
picture of what our textbook is telling us, we can remember it better and it will help us
comprehend (understand) the main learning goal. When we visualize, we use the words
in the text and try to draw a picture in our head. Often our personal picture is
different than others because we connect words in the text with our own experiences.
The important thing is that we look for words in the text that help us create our own
picture because that will help you, as a reader, better understand and remember what
the text says. Your job as a reader is to read the text, look for words that help
describe, and then combine those clues to draw a picture in your head. A good reader
uses the picture to better understand what he/she reads.
Instructor Models and Demonstrates: (I do)
Include key statements you will use to model comprehension thinking.
Let me show you an example. Pay attention to what I do because when I am done, we will
work together to visualize. I am going to use a short section from our Cells, Heredity,
and classification science text. I have given each of you a hand out so that you may
follow along. As I read today, I want you to pay attention to how I use the author’s
words and my background knowledge to create a picture in my head of the author’s
message. I will then keep track of my thinking on a graphic organizer.
Begin reading aloud with text in view of students. Stop after the first section. As I
read this, I think the cell membrane sounds like a wall. When I hear the word barrier I
am thinking of a something that stands in my way. I picture a wall around a castle.
When the text talks about letting things in and out I am picturing a dog door that allows
the dog to travel freely from inside and outside of the house. The text says that
cytoplasm is a fluid, this makes me think of water so I am now visualizing that inside my
wall it is full of water, maybe similar to a water balloon. So now I think, “What does a
cell look like?” I draw that picture in my head. Then I am going to draw it on my
graphic organizer. Now I think, what did I read about cells that I could add to my
picture in my mind and on my paper? The text said that the fluid was called cytoplasm
and the wall was called a cell membrane. Let’s label our picture.
Student Response Data (This can be a whole group or small group data set.)
What data will you collect to determine student progress?
2. How might you change your lesson when you teach it again?
I really felt that this lesson went well. I would take out some extra information that did not help the
students to visualize what the cell looked like.
Questions?
Collaboration Data
In the last five school days, have you worked with your collaborative partner to practice your explicit
instruction lessons?* _x___ Yes ____ No
In the last five school days, have you demonstrated an explicit instruction lesson (with students) for
your collaborative partner? __x__ Yes ____ No