Lesson Plan : Fun With Sentences
Teacher Name: | Elizabeth McClelland |
Grade: | Grade 2 |
Subject: | Language Arts |
Topic: | Teaching students to work together as a group to help make sentences |
Content: | Students will be given a word by teacher and have an opportunity to put words together to make sentences as a class. |
Goals: | #1-encourage children to use vocabulary while learning how words fit together to make sentences #2- allow children to interact with other classmates while learning #3- help children understand words and how they come together |
Objectives: | #1- encourage movement #2- increase vocabulary #3- to inform about words and using them in a sentence |
Materials: | words on paper that stick to teachers board, a board the words will stick on, space to walk around |
Introduction: | explain to children the sentence activity,and what class is about to do. |
Development: | teacher will show students how to make a short sentence using their given words and why the sentence makes sense |
Practice: | allow students to do a few alone and ask questions to the classroom to see if the class understands why or why not the sentence is correct |
Accommodations: | Some students may need more time than others. |
Checking For Understanding: | check sentences during independent work to make sure students understand the sentences they are writing and why they make sense. |
Closure: | allow students to finish up sentences and share them if they want and after everyone has finished have them help put materials away. |
Evaluation: | children did get better at writing and putting sentences together as they helped more. Activity took about 30 minutes to do |
Teacher Reflections: | this activity was fun for the children they did get frustrated at times but with a little help the children understood the concept. Divergent Question: #1- What do you enjoy most about writing and working together on sentences? #2- Are there things you would like to work on having to do with your words? |
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