Lesson Plan Template ED 3504 Group Lesson

Assessment
Topic
Grade

ELA-Writing (30 mins)

Name

Mrs. Gizette Edis

1-3

Date

Mon November 24, 2014

LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Students will:
1. Experiment with different ways of exploring and developing stories, ideas and experiences
(Grade 1 GLO 1.1)
2. Write, represent and tell brief narratives about own ideas and experiences (Grade 1 GLO 2.4)
3. Add sufficient detail to oral, print and other media texts to tell about setting and character,
and sustain plot (Grade 3 GLO 2.4)
4. Choose words, language, patterns, illustrations or sounds to create a variety of effects in oral,
print and other media texts (Grade 2 GLO 4.1)

ASSESSMENTS
Observations:
Key Questions:

Products/Performan
ces:

Ability to accurately describe an object. (Observed in writing books.)

Do they understand what a descriptive word is?
Do they understand how to use adjectives to accurately describe an
object?
Writing in booklets

LEARNING RESOURCES CONSULTED

MATERIALS AND EQUIPMENT

4 items from home or from the class. Choose
some that are similar in some way, for an
added challenge.

PROCEDURE
Prior to lesson
Attention Grabber
Assessment of
Prior Knowledge
Advance
Organizer/Agenda
Transition to Body
Learning Activity
#1
Assessments/
Differentiation:

Learning Activity
#2

Assessments/
Differentiation

Have students in their desks

Introduction
Play I spy game again. Allow 2 students to also have a turn
Review what was taught last week about describing words.
What things can we say about something to describe it.
Today, we will be playing I spy all class. Explain to the
students that you will have 4 different objects at the front and
that you want them to write down a description.
Bring out the 4 items. (Can be brought from home or chosen
from within in the class.)
Body
Provide an example for the students. Choose one of the objects
and have the students help you come up with a description.
This description will be for the grade 1s to copy down into their
booklets. It should be 3-5 sentences. Do not allow grade 2s and
3s to copy this.
Have the pass out person hand out the writing books.
Explain that grade 2s and 3s will write a descriptive paragraph
about one of the objects. Grade 1s will copy what you have
written on the board and then underline all of the descriptive
words.

1 min

Time
10 mins

12 mins

Supervise grade 2s and 3s and help grade 1s with underlining.

Closure

Assessment of
Learning:
Feedback From
Students:
Transition To Next
Lesson

Time
5 mins

Time

Shown in writing booklets and in underlining

Observed in booklets and in conversation
Have each students put their book away and line up for gym

Adapted from a template created by Dr. K. Roscoe

2 mins

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Activity/Activities

Lesson Plan Template ED 3504 Group Lesson

Have the students share their clues with 3 others, who will guess which
object they are describing. This could also be feedback to the student to see
if their description is accurate, making their object easy to guess.
Have them write another clue for one of the other objects.

Adapted from a template created by Dr. K. Roscoe