ED 3501

Lesson Plan

Grade/Subject: Grade 2/3 Subject: Language Arts

Topic: Personal Narrative Date: September 7,2018 Length of Lesson: 60 minutes
General General Outcome 1
Learning Students will listen, speak, read, write, view and represent to explore thoughts, ideas,
Outcomes feelings and experiences.
(P.O.S.)
Specific Leaning 1.1 Discover and Explore
Outcomes Express ideas and develop understanding
(P.O.S.)  contribute relevant ideas and information from personal experiences to group
language activities
 talk about how new ideas and information have changed previous
understanding
 express or represent ideas and feelings resulting from activities or experiences
with oral, print and other media texts

Learning Students will be able to touch a page of their book and tell what they are going to write
Objectives before they write it.
Students will be able to plan for writing a narrative
Materials -3 page story writing book
-whiteboard markers
-mentor text “Night of the Veggie Monster”
Procedure Assessment
Methods
Introduction 1. Inform students to gather at the carpet for a writers
(5 min.) meeting. Formative: do
2. What did we learn about last class in writing workshop? students remember
(small moments stories) what they learned
3. Today we are going to learn more about small moments about in the last
stories. writers workshop
4. I was so excited from yesterday’s writers workshop that class?
I went home and wrote a story myself!
5. Show students the story
Body of Lesson Body
( 45 Min.) 6. What is wrong with this story? ( all the words are
crammed onto one page) •
7. I have three pages but I have only used one page to
write my entire story.
8. What should I have done differently? ( spread out the Formal: are students
story onto all the pages) able to touch each
9. Spreading out the story onto all the pages is one of our page of the book and
writing goals today. say what they are
10. Another one of our goals is to practice planning to write. going to write before
11. One technique that I want you to try today when writing it down.
planning your writing is to touch and tell. Touch and tell
is when you first think about what you want to write,
then you touch each page of your booklet and say out
loud what you are planning on writing on that page.
12. Show students an example of touch and tell
13. Now that we know how to plan for writing, we need to
add to our anchor chart that we started last class called
“how to write a story”

1
 ED 3501

14. Lets review the three steps it takes to write a story. Step
1 is think of an idea, step 2 is plan and step 3 is write.
15. Under step 2 plan we are going to add touch and tell,
then sketch across pages which is the next writing
technique we just learned.
16. Now you have free writing time to use the touch and tell
technique to write a small moments story.
17. Collect your booklets from the bin and go back to your
desks.
18. Students have writing time

Closure ( 10
min.) 19. Inform students to clean up their writing stations and Formative: are
return to the carpet with their booklets for a debrief students pulling
meeting. their thumb up or
20. Pull up the writing checklist on the whiteboard down when writing
21. Inform students that this is a checklist for them to self- skills are mentioned
assess their writing abilities. on the checklist.
22. Inform students that I am going to read through the
checklist and if they think they have mastered that
writing skill they can put their thumb up and if not put
their thumb down.
23. Students can share their writing if they want.
24. Put the writing back in the writing folder and return to
desks.

Sponge Activity Add drawing to the pages in the booklet •

Reflection: