Krabby Patty Paragraph Lesson

by
Sara Jackson

1. Learning Outcomes:
During this lesson, students will be introduced to the concept of writing a
paragraph. The teacher and students will apply the concept of writing a
paragraph through a teacher example, an anchor chart, a graphic organizer,
and an opinion writing piece.

2. Common Core Standards:

Standard - CC.1.4.3.D: Create an organizational structure that includes
information grouped and connected logically with a concluding statement or
section.

Standard - CC.1.4.3.G: Write opinion pieces on familiar topics or text.

3. Lesson Objectives:
1. Students will be able to fill out a krabby patty paragraph graphic
organizer with information about their favorite holiday.

2. Students will be able to write an opinion piece on their favorite holiday

in their composition journals.

4. Anticipatory Set:
The teacher will show a SpongeBob Squarepants Krabby Patty song video.
The video talks about all the ingredients that create the krabby patty. After
the video is shown, the teacher will ask the students to recall the ingredients
needed to make a krabby patty. While the students are saying the
ingredients, the teacher will be writing them down on the board. The teacher
will then tell the students that just like making a krabby patty, a paragraph
has different parts to make it one, perfect piece of writing.

5. Procedures:
The teacher will show an anchor chart dissecting the krabby patty into
different ingredients. Each ingredient will relate to a different part of a
paragraph.
The top bun represents the topic sentence, the cheese is detail #1, the
patty is detail #2, the tomatoes and lettuce are detail #3, and the
bottom of the bun is the closing sentence.
The teacher will also show the students the secret formula which is
 the recipe to the secret sauce of a paragraph. The secret formula for
the sauce of the paragraph is punctuation at the end of the
sentences, capital letters at the beginning of the sentences, and
transitions words between sentences.
The teacher will use the anchor chart to write a 4-5 sentence sample
paragraph about his/her favorite animal.
The teacher will highlight each part of the paragraph and how it
corresponds to each ingredient in the krabby patty.
The teacher will have the students provide sentences to help him/her
write a short paragraph on his or her favorite thing to do after school.
The teacher will call on students to give either a topic sentence,
concluding sentence, or a detail.
Once the class has created their paragraph on their favorite thing to do
after school, the teacher will hand out a krabby patty graphic
organizer.
The students will be filling out information about their favorite holiday
in the graphic organizer.
The teacher will assist the students in filling out the graphic organizer,
spelling, etc.
The teacher will read over the finished graphic organizer to approve
them for quality writing.
The teacher will then give out the students composition books so they
can put their sentences together into a paragraph form.

6. Differentiated Instruction:
For students who need more assistance: For students who need more
assistance, I will give them their own personal krabby patty anchor chart to
keep in their desk to help them remember how to organize their paragraphs
while writing.

For students who need more of a challenge: For students who need
more of a challenge, I will give them a list of transition words to incorporate
in their writing and explain to them that transition words help to streamline a
piece of writing.

7. Closure:
The closure will be the students writing their finished copy of their opinion
paragraph on their favorite holiday in their composition books. The teacher
will also go over each part of the krabby patty and have the students tell her
which part of the paragraph the ingredient corresponds with. The teacher will
also remind students that they can use this krabby patty format to write
informative, opinion, and narrative paragraphs.
8. Assessment (Formative and Summative):
Formative: For formative assessment I will be observing the students while
they fill out their krabby patty graphic organizers. I will be looking to see that
the students are writing sentences that correspond to the correct part of the
graphic organizer. I will be recording that the students participated in the
filling out the graphic organizer and recording any viable notes about the
students writing.

Summative: For summative assessment I will be grading the students final

opinion paragraph on their favorite holiday which they write in their
composition books. I will be using the PA writing assessment domain scoring
guide.

9. Materials/Equipment:
Krabby patty anchor chart

Secret Formula booklet

Krabby patty graphic organizer (see attached)

SpongeBob krabby patty video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?
 v=Te7o2m2pB90
Composition journals
Pencils

10. Technology:
Technology will be utilized through the SpongeBob Squarepants krabby patty
video during the anticipatory set.

11. Reflection on Planning:

Because this is my last lesson I will be teaching this class, I wanted to make
it something fun! Therefore, I decided to modify the hamburger method of
paragraph writing into a krabby patty because the class loves SpongeBob.

The topic of writing paragraphs is something that these students really need
to progress in their writing. Currently, the students are only writing
numbered sentences. My cooperative teacher would like the students to be
writing more advanced paragraphs, so this lesson is perfect to help them
understand what a paragraph looks like, and what is in it.

During this lesson, I really wanted to model for the students how you write a
paragraph. I previously was placed in a situation where I had to help the
students write a paragraph without modeling it to them first. Without
modeling, the students did not understand what to do, and I ended up
having to tell them what to write. Therefore, during this lesson, I want the
students to have multiple chances to see a paragraph, draft a paragraph,
and write a paragraph.

12. Reflection on Instruction (once the lesson has been taught):

This was my last lesson I taught at the Center for Exceptional Learners, and I
believe it went very well. The students seemed to grasp the concept of
writing a paragraph. The one student was still struggling a bit to write
coherent sentences, but I worked with him to fix them. However, he was
being stubborn and kept his writing the same. The other three students
started to understand that you should add transition words so that the
paragraph flows better. They also were working hard on improving their
spelling.

The students really enjoyed the SpongeBob theme. They liked that I showed
a SpongeBob movie at the beginning of the lesson, and that I created a
secret formula for writing paragraphs. I hope that the students continue to
use this method for future writing.
I think that I was able to handle the class very well. My classroom
management has really improved from the beginning of student teaching
until now. I think that the students respect me, but I can still have fun with
them at the same time.

Overall I have really enjoyed my time here at the Center for Exceptional
Learners, and this last lesson was a great confidence booster into my next
student teaching placement.