EDUC 2220- Educational Technology Lesson Plan Lets learn Grammar

Jayne Sterricker 1 Grade Language Arts

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Common Core Standards: Phonemic Awareness, Word Recognition and Fluency Standard, Acquisition of Vocabulary Standard, Reading Applications: Informational, Technical and Persuasive Text Standard, Writing Process Standard. Lesson Summary: This Lesson is to help first grade students better grasp the idea of adjectives, verbs and nouns. We will also be incorporating technology into our lesson plan. Monday (45 minutes)- adjectives Tuesday (42 minutes)- verbs Wednesday (40 minutes)- nouns Estimated Duration: I have broken up my lesson plan into three consecutive school days. They will spend thirty five minutes each day learning a different, basic form of language arts. They will spend their first day learning adjectives, second day learning about verbs, and third day learning about nouns.

Commentary: The goal for this lesson is to get the first grade students to understand a little more about adjectives, nouns, and verbs. I would like to see the students engaged and absorb the material while having fun at the same time. I think that getting the children to stay focused along with having them be using their hands is going to be a challenge. I also believe that although it may be a challenge that the hands on materials are going to be what gets the students hooked on the lesson and look forward to coming back for more.

Instructional Procedures:

Day 1: 5 minutes: we will pass out materials to each student. These will include items such as cotton balls, marbles, blocks, and empty water bottles. 5 minutes: Introduction and explain to children what to do. 20 minutes: write DESCRIBE on a SMART board. Following this we will go around to each student that wants to talk and let them choose a word that they believe describes the item in their hand. An assistant teacher will continue to change out the items in the childrens hands. 5 minutes: Conclusion explains to the students want an adjective does and how it works. 5 minutes: Let each student write down as many adjectives as they can think of that describe themselves. 5 minute: clean up Materials for Day 1 SMART board Pencils Notebook paper Misc. items (marbles, blocks, empty water bottles, cotton balls ect.)

Day 2: The goal of Day 2 is to get children acquainted with verbs. 2 minutes: hand out each child an IPad 3 minutes: explain the importance of the IPad and how to take a video. 5 minutes: get children lined up and outside to field or playground. 10 minutes: Let children act as if they are having their normal recess, but video record what they are doing. 15 minutes: have the 1st graders sit in a circle and have them pull up the videos of their play time. They will then explain what they are doing in each video (running, jumping, monkey bars, talking act.) We will give each child a turn to talk followed by a very brief lesson on what verbs are used for. 5 minutes: Give each child a moment to write down as many verbs that they can think of. 2 minutes: clean up Materials for Day 2 Ipads Notebook paper Pencils

Day 3: 7 minutes: Explain to the children briefly what a noun is followed by writing a reminder on the SMART board that they are People, Places, and things. 3 minutes: had out digital cameras 3 minutes: explain how to take a simple picture 10 minutes: let loose in the classroom to take as many pictures of what they think are nouns. 10 minutes: sit down and talk about the photos that they took and discover if what they took truly qualified as a noun or not. 5 minutes: let students write down as many nouns that they can think of 2 minutes: clean up Materials Digital cameras (easy to use) Note book paper Pencils Set up classroom

Pre-Assessment: One Pre-assessment that I might do is as simple as asking what each student thinks an adjective, noun or verb is at the beginning of each lesson. I will write on the SMART board some of the answers that the students come up with. Scoring Guidelines: My scoring guidelines will include doing an observation of what my students know. I might go around the room and have every student name what they think an adjective, noun, or verb is. If they are correct on both the answers they will get two checks next to their name, if they get one of them right they get one check, and if the student has no idea then they will get an X. The students would never see this chart; it would be solely for me to see. Post-Assessment: The way that I will assess my students will be through a small project. They will take their digital cameras the following days and take pictures or nouns, verbs, and adjectives. We will then help them cut the pictures out and label each page with the name of the grammar piece. For example, the top of the page might say NOUN with People, Places, and things, written under it. They children would then have to glue the right picture to the right section of their book. They would then be graded on the accuracy.

Scoring Guidelines: I will explain to my students that they will need to have 6 pictures on each page. They will get 2 points for every picture. So there are 2 pictures switched (a picture of a student jumping under adjective) then they would get the grade of 32/36.

Differentiated Instructional Support For students that accelerate in this section I will have them work on forming sentences and circling the adjectives, nouns, and verbs. For the ending project instead of having them simply write Jump under a verb, they would write a full sentence and circle all 3. For Example: I jumped high on the green grass. For students that struggle I might have them slow down and explain to the teacher specifically what each item is and why it is an adjective, verb or noun. This way the teacher knows that the student is not just going off of what everyone else is doing, but also to get a one-on-one way of helping them excel.

Extension http://www.softschools.com/language_arts/grammar/noun/balloon_game/ This website helps students be able to practice their grammar before the final project. They can go through and pick any grammar game on this site and it will benefit them and hopefully get their final project grade even higher.

Homework Options and Home Connections First graders are just beginning to understand what the idea of homework is. They dont get assigned too much to do but still enough that their brains are still working at home. A way to get their brains turning would be sending them home with matching work sheets each night with review on what we learned in class that day. Another option would be sending a list of apps home with the children so their parents can have them practicing online.

Interdisciplinary Connections This lesson can be tied into the subject of reading. Although this is grammar and tends to be more towards writing, the students can benefit from understanding it in reading as well. I could add in a time where if I read to the students they can stop me when I get to an adjective so that they understand the context. Another option would be print off short paragraphs and have the students highlight in different colors adjectives, verbs, and nouns.

Materials and Resources:

For teachers

SMART board, pencils, computer notebook paper, misc. objects.

For students

Digital cameras, Ipad, SMART board, notebook paper, pencils.

Key Vocabulary Adjective Noun Verb