Georgia Southwestern State University Lesson Plan Guidelines Early Childhood Department Day 1 Section 1 Information that influences

s lesson content. Natasha Smith Name Subject Area Grade Level CCGPS/GPS Language Arts First grade ELACC1RF1a Demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of print. a. Recognize the distinguishing features of a sentence (e.g., first word, capitalization, ending punctuation).

Section 2 A description of the learning objective, means of assessment, plans for differentiation, and materials necessary for teaching the lesson. I can recognize the distinguishing features of a Essential Question or I Can Statement sentence. After the activity, students will be able to Lesson Objective capitalize appropriate words and finish with punctuation with 80% accuracy. A 4 question summative test where the students Assessment will have to circle the errors in a sentence already written and then rewrite sentence with corrections made. Questioning will be used for differentiation. Differentiation Questions will be identified in the guided practice. Worksheets and Oreos Materials eHow.com and Worksheetsworksheets.com Resources

Section 3a.

Opening Session

Opening to include the following elements: Gain attention State behavior expectations Prior Knowledge To gain their attention I will clap my hands 5 times in a certain rhythm and each time I do it they have to repeat. Students are expected to keep all eyes on me at all times with no talking or interrupting. Students should have prior knowledge of capital and lower case

Lesson Objective

letters, proper nouns and punctuation marks. Today, we will learn about what every sentence needs. Every sentence starts with a capital letter and ends with a period. We will also focus on other words that should be capital in the middle of a sentence.

3b.

Work Session Instruction: (Day 1)

I.

Identify your concept. (include auditory and visual learning styles.)

Sentence structure including punctuation and capitalization (auditory is saying it aloud and visual will be writing examples on the board and worksheet with first problem solved on smart broad)

II.

Define your concept. (Include auditory and visual learning styles.)

Start beginning of a sentence and proper nouns with a capital letter instead of lower case. Also, each sentence ends with a punctuation mark. A punctuation mark ends a sentence and tells you how the sentence was said.

III.

Explain your concept.

You begin every sentence with a capital letter and end with a punctuation mark. Proper nouns, including names, days of the week, months, holidays, cities and states, should be capital even though it is in the middle of a sentence. Always capitalize the letter I at the beginning and in the middle of every sentence. Lastly, you should end every sentence with a punctuation mark. Every sentence ends with a period, every question ends with a question mark, and when shouting use exclamation mark. IV. Provide Examples

Examples of proper nouns are the days of the week including: Monday Tuesday Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Another example of months are: December, May, June and July. Examples of cities and states are: Atlanta, Georgia; New Orleans, Louisiana; and New York City, New York. You also have to capitalize everybody names; like mine Ms. Smith (use students names as examples). I need to use the restroom Mrs. Lighnter, is an example of a sentence that needs a period. What happened to my pencil? is an example of a question that needs a question mark. Stop talking! is an example of something that needs an exclamation mark.

Guided Practice

Differentiation Questions Lower level Bloom: What did we talk about today? (Low student) Lower Level Bloom: Tell me one thing you learned about punctuation. Tell me one thing you learned about capitalization. (Low to Middle student) Higher Level Bloom: What does a punctuation mark tell us? How? Students will divide into groups of four. When in groups, the student with the best handwriting will be assigned the job of writing. Each group will be given a worksheet with 4 simple sentences to correct. After discussing what every sentence needs and which corrections will be made, the writer will make these corrections and then rewrite the sentence. I will go over number one of the board and make sure all groups have that one correct. After they are finished with one question they will raise their hand so someone can check it. After the question has been checked if it is right the group can move on to next question. If 3 out of 4 sentences are correct each member of the group will receive an Oreo. Incorrect group will have the chance to correct their sentences and earn their cookies.

Section 4 - Summarizer

Review

Preview Reflection (Complete below)

Lets do a quick review. What goes at the beginning of a sentence? Whole class responses. What goes at the end of a sentence? Whole class responses. When do you capitalize the letter I in a sentence? Whole class responses. Give me an example of a proper noun? Call on low level students. Tomorrow we will another review on what every sentence needs then we will do a worksheet by yourself and there will be no food. Overall, the lesson went smooth but it would have been helpful to have a script. The lesson plan was so long I thought it would be helpful to read word for word from the lesson plan but I couldnt. I should have practiced. It was a lot harder than I thought to explain new concepts. Also, I thought I need a lot of examples because the box was so big. I needed up with more examples then explanations. Next time I will focus more on the explain concept box then the provide examples box. Also, I needed up doing all questions on the board and should do the same from now on. Day 2

Section 1 Information that influences lesson content. Language Arts Subject Area

Grade Level CCGPS/GPS

First grade ELACC1RF1a Demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of print. a. Recognize the distinguishing features of a sentence (e.g., first word, capitalization, ending punctuation).

Section 2 A description of the learning objective, means of assessment, plans for differentiation, and materials necessary for teaching the lesson. Essential Question or I Can Statement Lesson Objective I can recognize the distinguishing features of a sentence. After a quick review, students will be able to complete worksheet about capitalization and punctuation with 80% accuracy. A 4 question summative test where the students will have to circle the errors in a sentence already written and then rewrite sentence with corrections made. Questioning will be used for differentiation. Questions will be identified in the guided practice. Worksheets, dry eraser board and makers eHow.com, Education.com and Worksheetsworksheets.com

Assessment

Differentiation Materials Resources

Section 3a.

Opening Session

Opening to include the following elements: Gain attention State behavior expectations Prior Knowledge Lesson Objective To gain their attention I will clap my hands 5 times in a certain rhythm and each time I do it they have to repeat. Students are expected to keep all eyes on me at all times with no talking or interrupting. Students should have prior knowledge of capital and lower case letters, proper nouns and punctuation marks. Today, we will review what we learn yesterday about what every sentence needs. Every sentence starts with a capital letter and ends with a period. We will also focus on other words that should be capital in the middle of a sentence.

Session 3b: Work Session

Instruction: (Day 2)

I.

Identify your concept. (include auditory and visual learning styles.)

Sentence structure including punctuation and capitalization (auditory is saying it aloud and visual will be writing examples on the board and worksheet with first problem solved on smart broad)

II.

Define your concept. (Include auditory and visual learning styles.)

Start beginning of a sentence and proper nouns with a capital letter instead of lower case. Also, each sentence ends with a punctuation mark. A punctuation mark ends a sentence and tells you how the sentence was said.

III.

Explain your concept.

Yesterday, we discussed how you begin every sentence with a capital letter and end with a punctuation mark. Proper nouns, including names, days of the week, months, holidays, cities and states, should be capital even though it is in the middle of a sentence. Always capitalize the letter I at the beginning and in the middle of every sentence. Lastly, you should end every sentence with a punctuation mark. Every sentence ends with a period, every question ends with a question mark, and when shouting use exclamation mark.

IV.

Provide Examples

Examples of proper nouns are the days of the week including: Monday Tuesday Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Other examples are months: December, May, June and July. Examples of cities and states are: Atlanta, Georgia; New Orleans, Louisiana; and New York City, New York. You also have to capitalize everybody names; like mine Ms. Smith (use students names as examples). I need to use the restroom Mrs. Lightner, is an example of a sentence that needs a period. What happened to my pencil? is an example of a question that needs a question mark. Stop talking! is an example of something that needs an exclamation mark.

V.

Provide Non-examples

Some example of things that should not be capitalized are regular nouns, like the words: car, house, school, building, and park. They only become capital when you are talking about a specific person, place, or thing and you are naming it. The question What are you doing. is incorrect because it should have a question mark. Leave Me Alone? is incorrect because it should have an exclamation mark. I am hungry? is incorrect because it should have a period.

Differentiation Questions Lower level Bloom: What goes at the beginning of a sentence? (Low student) Lower Level Bloom: What goes at the end of a sentence? (Low student) Higher Level Bloom: What are some examples of words that should be capital? (Low to Middle student) Higher Level Bloom: How do you use question marks? How do you use exclamation marks? (High student) A sentence will be written on the board. A student will come up and write the correct punctuation marks on the board. If nothing is wrong with punctuation that means a word need to be capitalized. The student who volunteered will make corrections and explain them. If correct students will do thumbs up and if wrong thumbs down. Students with complete a worksheet by themselves similar to guided practice Independent questions where the sentences have to be corrected and rewritten. I will be Practice walking around monitoring progress and helping. Section 4 - Summarizer Lets do a quick review. What goes at the beginning of a sentence? Whole class responses. What goes at the end of a sentence? Whole class responses. When do you capitalize the letter I in a sentence? Whole class responses. Give me an example of a proper noun? Call on low level students. Tomorrow we will go over what a contraction is. Doing examples on the board was an extreme help again. It even helped with differentiation. Once again I ended up doing all questions on the board. Independent practice was a disaster. I think the biggest problem with independent practice is their writing abilities. If they have poor writing abilities then they are going to have problems rewriting the sentences. So I probably should just have them circle errors. However, if they just have to circle errors I would have to add a lot more problems for leverage.

Guided Practice

Review

Preview Reflection (see below)