Lesson Plan : Officer Buckle and Gloria
Teacher Name: | Mr. Wickes |
Grade: | Grade 4 |
Subject: | Language Arts |
Topic: | Colorful Language in Officer Buckle and Gloria |
Content: | Story taken from Harcourt reader Vocab words from unit: Department; Noticed; Audience; Expression; Obey; Commands; Accident |
Goals: | By reading colorful language that involves the senses (sight, sound, smell), the students will gain an understanding of how an author might engage the reader. |
Objectives: | Students will be able to write a paragraph detailing their favorite place; using language that engages the readers senses. (Clearly students will focus on sight, but all will be encouraged to try to think of smells and sounds). |
Materials: | Projector; copies of Harcourt Reader; paper; writing utensils. |
Introduction: | Examples of what colorful or descriptive language may be IE - Bang; crash; Stinks; glowing Examples may be found on pages 23,24 and 32. |
Development: | Ask students to offer their own colorful words |
Practice: | The class may compose a sentence or two as a whole or in small groups. |
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Checking For Understanding: | Review student's paragraphs in small groups; encourage discussion. |
Closure: | Ask students to offer some examples to share with the class |
Evaluation: | Formal - Read students works. Assign grade based on conventions and effort. Informal - Consider student's effort to complete assignment. |
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