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Shared Reading: Learning About Colonial Trades Lesson PlanShared Reading: Learning About Colonial Trades Lesson Plan
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EngageNY
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4th
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English Language Arts
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1 hr
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Year
2013
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Shared Reading: Learning About Colonial Trades

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Trading in Colonial America is the focus of a lesson plan that boosts reading skills. As a class, scholars examine the informational text for crucial details, use their newfound knowledge to share information with their peers, and write an ad for a wheelwright. Small groups follow the same steps to writing a help-wanted ad.

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CCSS: Designed

Concepts

colonial america, colonial williamsburg, colonialism, the colonial era, trade, reading, informational texts, nonfiction, nonfiction texts, reading nonfiction, details, key details, main ideas, expository essays, Expository Writing, Writing

Additional Tags

english language arts

Instructional Ideas

  • Combine the lesson with your social studies curriculum that covers Colonial America 
  • Make heterogenous triads to encourage peer support and learning opportunities 
  • Display help wanted ads on a Colonial-themed bulletin board, include lesson highlights for pupils to reference throughout the unit 

Classroom Considerations

  • This second lesson is part of a 16-lesson unit within a series of reading modules 
  • Past and future lessons from this and other units and modules are mentioned 

Pros

  • The first portion of the lesson guides pupils in the learning process to prepare them for working independently
  • Several tips are included to meet a variety of learners' needs

Cons

  • None

Common Core

RI.4.1 W.4.10 W.4.2.a

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