Try an Essential Lesson with your own class.
The following sample pages provide a complete lesson and its related teaching resources.
A Lesson from 50 Essential Lessons
50 Essential Lessons presents 50 standards-based lessons organized around the cognitive and personal skills students need for success in school and beyond. The lesson sampled here is Lesson 5, “Draw Conclusions from What You Read: Effective readers draw conclusions about the meaning and purpose of what they read.
- Lesson 5: Draw Conclusions from What You Read
- Annotated Walkthrough of Lesson 5. This walkthrough details the features of a lesson’s instructional design.
Tools for 50 Essential Lessons
90+ teaching tools support the essential lessons and scaffold strategy use with multiple genres and texts of varying lengths across the curriculum. These tools are provided in a reproducible format in Tools and Texts for 50 Essential Lessons. Tools for 50 Essential Lessons CD-ROM provides these same tools in an electronic format that is easy to review and print out. The following tools are referenced in Lesson 5: Draw Conclusions from What You Read.
Texts for 50 Essential Lessons
Jim’s model lessons draw on texts that are either common to English classrooms or are real-world readings that Jim uses in his class. These core resources are provided in a reproducible format in Tool and Texts for 50 Essential Lessons. The following real-world reading is referenced in Lesson 5: Draw Conclusions from What You Read.
- “Messages from the Heart,” an article about the demands and benefits of participating in Toastmasters International’s Youth Leadership Program.
