Happy Tuesday!
It’s almost Memorial Day!
Teach your students the importance of this day and its history.
I used this Direct Instruction template I created to write a Memorial Day lesson using the standard I deconstructed in my guest post on Education to the Core. You can grab it here for FREE!
Here are the step-by-step directions for my Memorial Day Direct Instruction lesson with my deconstructed standard:
Slide One: Hook
Excite your students about Memorial Day! Talk about the upcoming three day weekend for a few minutes then explain how it’s an important day for our country.
Slide 2: Objective
State the objective to your students and write it on the board.
Slide 3: Review
Review these questions with your students and remind them about informational text and key details.
Slide 4: Big Idea
State the big idea. It will help your students understand why we need to know this information.
Slides 5 through 12: Modeling
Use the following slides to show your students how to fill out the graphic organizer. Here’s a copy of the organizer for you! There’s an alternate copy (vertical) in my Memorial Day download on TpT.
Slides 13 through 18: Check for Understanding
Show your students each slide and have them answer their questions on their whiteboards.
Slides 19 through 21: Closure
Ask the three questions on the slides and have your students answer these questions on their whiteboards.
Slide 22: Independent Practice
Explain the Independent Practice for students. They can use their sheets to help them complete the flip book!
Grab my Memorial Day download from my shop!
Have a great day! 🙂
