Lesson Plan : Amelia Bedelia
Teacher Name: | Mrs. Nancy Gore |
Grade: | Grade 3 |
Subject: | Language Arts |
Topic: | Figurative Language |
Content: | Demonstrate the use of figurative language and idioms. Illustrate how the same phrase can be understood in two different ways, especially if the listener is not familiar with the common meaning. |
Goals: | Speaking, listening, and writing in such a way that will be clearly understood. Using humor to illustrate the misunderstanding that can occur when we assume people will know 'what we mean'. |
Objectives: | Students will be able to: Recall and list information from the book Amelia Bedelia by Peggy Parish. Demonstrate an understanding of the meaning of the story by interpreting the actual meaning of the directions given by Mrs.Rogers. Apply their understanding of the story by rewriting directions that Amelia Bedelia will understand. |
Materials: | chalkboard/dry-erase board Amelia Bedelia by Peggy Parish storyboard with examples worksheets with storyboard on them |
Introduction: | Ask how many of the children take the bus to school everyday. Tell the children that there is something that has been confusing you. Ask them if "taking the bus to school" means that they carry a bus to school in their backpack. Then, after the students have answered and laughed, introduce them to Amelia Bedelia, someone else who gets confused with sentences like that. Ask the children to look at the cover of the book at Amelia Bedelia's uniform and predict what Amelia Bedelia's job is. |
Development: | Read the story, Amelia Bedelia, to the students, making sure that each can see the pictures. In each picture of Amelia BedeliaIntroduce the children to the chart/storyboard with its four categories. Go over the titles of the four categories. (Mrs. Rogers' Directions, What Amelia Bedelia Does, What Amelia Bedelia should have done, and Mrs. Rogers' New Directions) doing the job wrong, ask the children what it looks like she's doing. Ask the students what Mrs. Rogers really wanted her to do for each task. After finishing the story, as a class, make a list on the board of all the jobs that Mrs. Rogers asked Amelia Bedelia to do. (If the students can not remember all of the jobs, ask one student to be the"detective" and look in the book for the missing jobs.) |
Practice: | Go over the first example that the teacher has already done on the storyboard: The first category will say "Dust the Furniture" The second category will have a picture of Amelia putting dust on a dresser. The third category will be of Amelia using a duster to take the dust off of the dresser. The fourth category will be blank. Ask the children to recall the new directions that Mrs. Rogers has to say to Amelia Bedelia which was given in the book. (If the students are unable to remember, have the "detective" find the answer.) Go over the second example, also already on the storyboard. The first category will say "Measure two cups of rice." The second category will be a picture of Amelia Bedelia measure the height of two cups of rice with a ruler. The third category will be a picture of Amelia Bedelia pouring rice into a measure cup.) The fourth category will be blank. Ask the students to create new directions that Mrs. Rogers might give Amelia Bedelia so that she will do the job correctly. [The children should come up with an answer such as "Put two cups of rice in a measuring cup".] (This answer is not in the book.) |
Accommodations: | Pair students to discuss and generate list of other expressions that would confuse Amelia Bedelia. The child without the disability can then write the list of expressions that both children have generated. |
Checking For Understanding: | Ask the children to formulate a list of other expressions that would confuse Amelia Bedelia, like "take the bus to school" or "go fly a kite". |
Closure: | Encourage the children to read other Amelia Bedelia books like Good Work Amelia Bedelia. Have these books on hand. |
Evaluation: | Evaluate the list of other expressions that would confuse Amelia Bedelia. Review and evaluate the work of the students on their worksheets. |
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