Lesson Title

Identify, Select, Decide

Abstract

This reading comprehension lesson focuses on picking out details from informational texts, selecting viable options that meet requirements for a solution, comparing and contrasting these options to reach a final decision to solve a specific problem. The target audience for this lesson is adults in Adult Basic Education courses at a CCRS Anchor 2, Grade D. This lesson will help learners to effectively review information, and assess the costs and benefits of a final decision they make.

Learner Audience/Primary Users

The learner audience are adults taking Adult Basic Education course who struggle with reading comprehension. These adults want to learn how to examine, deliberate upon, and ultimately use what they read to their advantage in order to procure better jobs, and or fill roles that require higher levels of education. Thus many of these students have the goal to complete their high school equivalency exams. These learners want to learn how to be patient with themselves as they read and mentally compute what they are taking in. They move slowly and are eager to learn, but may be hard on themselves after a lifetime spent not knowing how to comprehend what they read at a level higher than the 6th grade.

Educational Use

This lesson is to be used to add to curriculum or to instruct a group of students.

Language

English

Material Type

• Instructional Material
• Lesson Plans

Keywords

• Designers for Learning
• Adult Basic Education
• Reading Comprehension
• Identification
• Selection
• Decision Making
• Costs
• Benefits
• Pros
• Cons

Time Required for Lesson

• 30 Hour
• 10 minutes for identification
• 10 minutes for selection, comparisons, and contrasting
• 10 minutes for discussion and questions

Targeted Skills

• Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents
• Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one
• Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources
• Knowledge of economic and accounting principles and practices, the financial markets, banking and the analysis and reporting of financial data

Learning Objectives

• Identify which part needs to be replaced in order to fix a piece of machinery from its corresponding manual
• Select from a list of parts in a catalogue which ones are able to serve as a replacement
• Compare the costs and benefits of selecting one choice over another 

CCRS Alignment

• CCRS Anchor 2
• Domain: English Language Arts and Literacy - Reading Comprehension
• Strand: Reading
• Sub-strand: Reading of Informational Texts
• Standard Description: Determine a theme or central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details; provide a summary or the text distinct from personal opinions or judgements

Prior Knowledge

The students must be able to read letters and numbers to be able to take part in this lesson.

Required Resources

• Sample informational texts for farming machinery
• Manuals for farming machinery
• Catalogue for parts replacement for farming machinery
• Either visuals of machinery or exploded diagrams
• Samples of these can be printed from online sources, this can serve as a jumping point to using the computer for future research versus using printed resources

Lesson Author & License

• Yemi Ojumu
• freereading.net
• CC - BY - SA 4.0