Lesson Plan Guide

Teacher Candidate:
Grade and Topic:

Jesse Cochran
3rd grade English

Date: 4/30/16
Length of Lesson:

Mentor Teacher:

2 days

School: University Of Memphis

UNIT/CHAPTER OBJECTIVE/GENERALIZATION/BIG IDEA:

Letter Writing Skills
LESSON OBJECTIVE:
Students will be able to write a letter to a Pen Pal in South America, and demonstrate proper letter writing
techniques (Heading, signatures, etc.) with 85% accuracy.
Students will begin communicating with a Pen Pal from another country.

STANDARDS ADDRESSED:

TN College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards for Writing 1 and 2

ITSE Standards: 1, 2

MATERIALS:
Proper Letter heading worksheet (http://www.tlsbooks.com/pdf/writingafriendlyletter.pdf)
Technology will be integrated b having he students hand write an then type their letter.
Pen Pal video (http://www.nickjr.com/peppa-pig/videos/120-peppa-pig-peppa-pen-pal/)

Personal Interests Worksheet (attached)

BACKGROUND and RATIONALE:

What are the key concepts for the lesson?
How to properly head a letter
How to properly end a letter
How to properly type letter headings as well as hand writing them
What is the critical academic language (general and technical) that must be addressed in this lesson?
What goes in a letter heading
Words that conclude (Sincerely, with regards, thanks, etc.)
Knowledge of a Microsoft Word
Knowledge of abbreviations (St., ln, plc., etc.)
How does this lesson connect with and build on the previous lesson(s)?
It will build on the lesson about different countries in South America, we use the
skills we learned in out labeling exercise to then label the country that our Pen Pals are from.
It will add to our discussions on proper grammar and sentence structure and
punctuation.
How do you expect to build on this lesson in subsequent lessons?
We will build on this by talking about plot, theme, etc., when we discuss the
letters we write and receive. We will also write stories about the Pen Pals that we receive.
Why will you need to plan differentiated activities or assessments?
PROCEDURES AND TIMELINE:

Introduction: For an introduction, I am going to show a clip from Peppa Pig that discussing what a Pen Pal is,
and then discuss. (10 15 minutes)
Procedures: Provide a sequential (step by step) description of the procedures and activities for the lesson.

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Introduction Video/Discussion (15 Minutes)

Discuss how we will be incorporating Pen Pals into our class (10 Minutes)
Review the countries in South America (10 Minutes)
Go over the countries that we will be reciving Pen Pals From (5 Minutes)
Begin gong over how to write a letter (45 Minutes)
Go over the proper way to head a letter and give out Letter Heading Worksheet.
Finally give out the Personal Interest worksheet for homework. (10 Minues)

NEXT CLASS:
1. Discuss the interest sheet, go around the class and have the students read a ew of their
interests. As well as reading some of our own. (20 Minutes)
2. Pass out sheet with Pen Pals name and address to each student (5 minutes)
3. Review Letter writing and make sure all students have their worksheet from the previous
class. (20 Minutes)
4. Allow students to begin writing their letters, while monitoring the room.

Closure: What do you have planned to close the lesson?

To close the lesson, we will go through how to properly address and envelope, and then
we will mail our letters!

ASSESSMENT EVIDENCE:
Since the letters are being typed a copy will be printed for me to grade based on proper headings, signatures,
and spelling.
Make sure there is a clear link between the Goals and Objectives and the Assessments.

MODIFICATIONS:
Assigning Spanish speaking/ writing pen pals for ELLs
For more advanced students I would let them write longer letters.
For the under achieving students I would give them extra assistance during their writing process.
I would also give the opportunity to put images in the letters to give students and extra technological aspect the
letters