School of Education Lesson Plan Template

Salem State University

(EDU407 MODIFIED VERSION)

I. Setting the Stage: What are your measurable objectives and assessment? A. Curriculum Framework Standards: Which MA Curriculum Frameworks
address your topic content and objectives?

3.1. Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking. a. Explain the function of nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs in general and their functions in particular sentences. b. Form and use regular and irregular plural nouns. e. Form and use the simple (e.g., I walked; I walk; I will walk) verb tenses. f. Ensure subject-verb and pronoun-antecedent agreement.* i. Produce simple, compound, and complex sentences.

C. Measurable Objectives: What do you want students to know and be able to do?

Students will be able to identify parts of speech and use them correctly when forming sentences.

D. End of Lesson Assessment: How are you going to assess students understanding?

Students will complete a worksheet in where they are required to unscramble sentences to create structurally sound sentences.

II. Content of the Lesson A. Content and Skills: What do you know about what you are planning to teach?

B. Rationale: Why teach the lesson?

Students will use their knowledge of parts of speech to create sentences in all areas of school. It is important that students can communicate well and clearly.

IV. Preparation for the Procedures: Materials: What materials, resources, and technology will you need?
Teacher: Copies of worksheet Ipads with loaded apps Copy of Grouping Words: Sentences by Anita Ganeri Student: Pencil Prior Knowledge

V. Sequence of Teaching-Procedures A. Beginning of the Lesson: How will you immediately engage all of your students in the content? Students will join together in the morning meeting area.

We will read Grouping Words: Sentences by Anita Ganeri (15 Minutes) While reading we will talk about the word order in the sentences and review parts of speech. Teacher will then model how to use each app. (10 Minutes) Students will then be split into two groups. B. Middle of Lesson: What are your students doing (e.g., speaking, writing, drawing, performing, documenting, observing) to explore the content? (75 Minutes) Teacher will hand out ipads to each student Students will work in 2 groups. One group will work with the app Scent Builder and the other will work with the app Grammar. After a half hour students will switch to the app they have not used yet. (Using small groups will help students work indepently while also using their peers as a resource.) Students in each group will then work together to create one structurally correct sentence. A representative from each group will go to the front of the class and write their sentence on the board. Students in the class will then explain why the sentence is right or what could be changed. Students will then go back to their seats.

D. End of Lesson: How will you help all students process the experience? (30 minutes)
Students will be given a worksheet where they will be required to work independently to apply their knowledge of sentence structure.

VI. Reflection after Teaching: What did you learn from teaching the lesson? A. Looking at Student Performance

To what extent did students meet measurable objectives and what is the evidence? What were some common student misconceptions? Based on student performance, what areas of instruction / topics / activities need revision or elaboration?

B. Looking at Teaching

Prompting questions include (you should answer most of these): What went well? What were the challenges? What did you learn (about yourself, students, and content) from doing the lesson? What would you do differently?

Description of apps:

1.

Grammar for Kids:

This app can be used as an instructional tool because it exposes students to structurally correct sentences. Students will have to identify parts of speech from the sentences and they will see how their order affects the overall sentences. This app is good for students with background knowledge of parts of speech and who are working to create sentences. We will be using it to target third grade students who have been exposed to grammar and the way grammar works to create good sentences. Students will have to have a moderate understanding of how the English language works. ELL students will have to know what verbs, nouns, and adjectives are for this task. Since the teacher will model how to use the apps the students will see what identify means. Also if the student struggles they will be working in groups and will be able to get help from their peers as they work their way through the app. This app underlines the choices that students can choose from which maximizes their change of identifying the right object. Students are given two options to choose from so they do not have to deconstruct the entire sentence to find the part of speech they are looking for. While the app is great, it lacks the feature of reading the sentences to the students. If the sentences were read aloud this app could be used for a lower level student who has a basic understanding of parts of speech. Also, there may be some words such as Mercury that ELL students may have a problem reading. 2. Sentence Builder:

This app can be used as an instructional tool because it shows students that word order matters when creating sentences. This is great for ELL students that may speak a language where the order of parts of speech such as nouns and adjectives may be different from the word order in the English language. The appropriate grade level for this application would be third grade. Students begin to grasp the concept of using complete and well-structured sentences as well as the understanding of the importance of being able to communicate clearly. Again, students will have to have a moderate understanding of how the English language works. If ELL students are used to only seeing English as a translated version from another language they may not understand that adjectives normally come before nouns or other important structural aspects of English sentences. The strengths of this app include that it reads the sentence how it should be structured and it includes a picture so that students have a visual aid to go refer to. This apps weakness is that if a student does not get it right it does not read it aloud so they may not understand why it is not correct.