Teacher: Miss Cooke

Miss Heidi

Date:4/2/15

School: Lincoln Middle School

Grade Level: 6-8 ELLs

Content Area: English Language Arts

Title: Family Unit

Content Standard(s) addressed by this lesson:

standard)

Lesson #:1__ of _1_

(Write Content Standards directly from the

Content Area and Topic 6th Grade Language Arts ELP Standard Communicate information,
ideas and concepts necessary for academic success in the content area of Language Arts (LOLA)
CDE State Standard: 3. Word meanings are determined by how they are used in context.
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Taken from Mentor Teacher, Ms. Wright

Understandings: (Big Ideas)

Students will understand and be able to associate words with pictures and determine word
meanings by how they are designed and used in context. Students will also be able to distinguish
the relationship amongst various members of a family.
Inquiry Questions: (Essential questions relating knowledge at end of the unit of instruction,
select applicable questions from standard)
What are the titles of the various members of your family?
Who is considered a family member?
What are the benefits of knowing the titles of your family members?
Evidence Outcomes: (Learning Targets)
Every student will be able to: (Create your own lesson objectives from the standard, follow the
ABCD format, using student voice)
I can: Create a family tree and accurately label the members of a family.
This means: I can identify the members of a family.

List of Assessments: (Write the number of the learning target associated with each assessment)

Learning Target: I will be able to recognize and name the members of a family.
Assessment: Kahoot!

Planned Lesson Activities

Name and Purpose of Lesson
Should be a creative title for you and the
students to associate with the activity. Think of
the purpose as the mini-rationale for what you
are trying to accomplish through this lesson.
Approx. Time and Materials
How long do you expect the activity to last and
what materials will you need?

Name: Family Unit

Purpose: To introduce students to the English vocabularies associated with the
concept of a family.

82 Minutes
Teacher:
Smart notebook presentation & smart board
Overhead
Family Crossword Vocabulary handout
This is My family song from youtube.com
Blank Family Tree Template
Students:
Pencil
Coloring pencils (optional)

Anticipatory Set
The hook to grab students attention. These
are actions and statements by the teacher to
relate the experiences of the students to the
objectives of the lesson, To put students into a

The warm-up activity will be done using the Family Phonics Vocabulary

Students will repeat the phonics after the teacher

receptive frame of mind.

To focus student attention on the lesson.
To create an organizing framework for
the ideas, principles, or information that
is to follow (advanced organizers)
An anticipatory set is used any time a different
activity or new concept is to be introduced.
Procedures
(Include a play-by-play account of what students
and teacher will do from the minute they arrive
to the minute they leave your classroom. Indicate
the length of each segment of the lesson. List
actual minutes.)
Indicate whether each is:
-teacher input
-modeling
-questioning strategies
-guided/unguided:
-whole-class practice
-group practice
-individual practice
-check for understanding
-other

Introduce the lesson with the This is My Family song which highlights:

The different types of family

The multiple sizes of a family

Introduce the most common family members.

Connect the vocabulary to their autobiography paper.

Immediate family (Parents, Grandparents, and Siblings)
Extended Family (Aunts, Uncles, and Cousins)

Matching Activity

Have students match the vocabulary to the pictures on the smart board.

Translation

Have volunteer students translate the family vocabulary to their native

language.

Teachers Family Tree Presentation

Miss Heidi and Miss Cooke will share their family tree with the class.
Introduce the words sibling and in-law during presentation.

Students Family Tree Creation and Presentation

Closure
Those actions or statements by a teacher that are
designed to bring a lesson presentation to an
appropriate conclusion. Used to help students
bring things together in their own minds, to
make sense out of what has just been taught.
Any Questions? No. OK, lets move on is not
closure. Closure is used:
To cue students to the fact that they have
arrived at an important point in the
lesson or the end of a lesson.
To help organize student learning
To help form a coherent picture and to
consolidate.
Differentiation
To modify: If the activity is too advanced for a
child, how will you modify it so that they can be
successful?

Have each student create a family tree using the blank template.
Ask students to share their family trees with the class (voluntarily).

Have students tell the teacher how the lesson could be improved.
Ask students about the new knowledge theyve acquired after the lesson.
Get students general opinion on the family unit lesson.
Make a connection back to their autobiography
Give students family vocabulary crossword handout to do for the
remainder of the class. It is homework if it isnt finished.

To modify: Present vocabularies at a slower pace; ask questions for each

vocabulary for clarifications and understanding.
To extend: Explicitly introduce the family member vocabulary in scenarios such as

To extend: If the activity is too easy for a child,

how will you extend it to develop their emerging
skills?
Teaching Strategy (Independent Practice)

Teaching Strategy (Active Learning)

sentences, graphics, and social roles. We can also specifically focus on the family
members listed out in the students autobiographies.

Students will create their own family tree.

Homework is the Crossword handout.
Translate vocabulary words to native language.

Active Learning
Throughout the lesson, students will have the opportunity to listen, ask questions
and comment on the activity theyre doing and on the new knowledge thats
forming.

Teaching Strategy (Guided Practice)

Assessment
How will you know if students met the learning
targets? Write a description of what you were
looking for in each assessment.

Ask questions during the lesson and wait for answers.

Model a family tree
Generally, teacher (s) will moderately guide all of the activities in the
lesson.

Have students take the six questions quiz on Kahoot!

Go over missed questions in class.

Post Lesson Reflection

1. To what extent were lesson objectives achieved? (Utilize assessment data to justify
your level of achievement)
Many of the students got the answers right on the Kahoot! Quiz. The quiz wasnt meant to be
extremely challenging; rather, it was meant to review what theyve learned. Many of the students
said the quiz was easy and that the lesson in all was not difficult because they knew many of the
terms already. The one question half of them got wrong was the one on sibling. Many of them
had difficulty understanding that the word sibling represents brother and/or sister. Their
misunderstandings were clarified, so, they all should know the term sibling.

2. What changes, omissions, or additions to the lesson would you make if you were to
teach again?
I would definitely change the introduction activity, which was the This is my family song.
Miss Heidi and I initially chose the song not to undermine the students, but, to introduce the
lesson on an upbeat and light note. Id only change it because the students said it was for little
kids. I want to be a teacher that takes my students suggestions into account. In place of the song,
I would find an activity thats more challenging or have an in-depth discussion on what
constitutes a family. Something Id like to add to this lesson is the previous generations, like the
great grandparents, aunts, and uncles. Id also like to spend a little more time discussing the stepfamily members and the in-laws.

3. What do you envision for the next lesson? (Continued practice, reteach content, etc.)
Since students had no problem understanding the vocabularies, Id like to have a mini lesson the
in-laws and step family members. Afterwards, we can move on to a lesson. A new lesson could
be having students choose a member of their family and write a paragraph on why the family
member means so much to them. Or, students can work on autobiographies, like theyre
currently doing in Ms. Wrights class.

Teaching Experience/Lesson Plan

As a class requirement, I co-taught a lesson. The lesson was a Family Unit, and my
co-teacher and I decided to teach a lesson with the members of the family because
we observed that some students had difficulty naming the various members of their
family in English. Below are the necessary documents we used to teach this lesson.
Also included is an assessment of our teaching done by the mentor teacher.

Documents

Kahoot! Questions

Here are
the slides
of the
Smart
Board
Lesson
that we
taught at
the beginning of the lesson.