Writing Lesson Plan

Title: Adjectives Subject: English Language Arts Grade Level: 4 Time Frame: Thirty minutes IL State Goal: IL Learning Standard: IL Benchmark: 3. Write to communicate for a variety of purposes. 3.B. Compose well-organized and coherent writing for specific purposes and audiences. 3.B.2d Edit documents for clarity, subjectivity, pronoun-antecedent agreement, adverb and adjective agreement and verb tense; proofread for spelling, capitalization and punctuation; and ensure that documents are formatted in final form for submission and/or publication.

Purpose: The purpose of this lesson is to reinforce the concept of adjectives and how adjectives are used to make a sentence more exciting. Objective(s): Students will: Materials: Procedure: Anticipatory Set: I will introduce the lesson by passing out the pictures to the students. While I am passing out the pictures, I will ask students to tell me what a caption is. Activity Steps: 1. After I have received answers about what a caption is, I will explain to the students that we are going to write a caption for both of the photos. 2. I will ask the students to look at the pictures. These pictures were selected from the American Memory Library of Congress website. I chose pictures that were basic and could be described by the students. I will not write the captions on the pictures because I want the students to read and understand the pictures before I give them any captions about the pictures. 3. I will explain the activity in which we are going to insert adjectives to make a boring caption more exciting. 4. I will introduce the first picture by asking specific questions about the picture. The questions include: What is this place? What gives you the idea that this is a restaurant? Do you think this is an old picture? Why? Who are the people in the picture? What makes you think that? What do you think the people are doing? Why? 5. The questions will make the students think about the picture and ways to describe it. 20 sets of the 2 pictures Pictures are located at http://memory.loc.gov Diner - http://photoswest.org/cgi-bin/imager?00074312+MCC-4312 Street - http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/aep/in/aep-inn121.jpg Chalk Chalkboard A writing spiral for each student Pencils Identify adjectives. Use adjectives in sentences. Read a picture.

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6. Once I feel that the students have read the picture, I will ask them to write a new caption for the picture using adjectives added to the original caption. I will write my boring caption, This is a restaurant, on the chalkboard. Then I will ask students to write a new caption in their spiral notebooks. 7. When each student has written a sentence, I will ask the students to share their sentences if they chose to. I will compare and contrast the additions to each caption read by the students. 8. I will repeat this process with the last picture. The questions I will ask about the last picture include: Where do you think this place is? Why? What makes you think that? Do you think this is a small or big town? Is it a large city? Where are the people? Why do you think that? Where do you think the people went? What makes you think that? 9. On the board, I will write the caption, A street runs through this town. I will ask the students to write a more exciting sentence using adjectives. 10. When the students have finished, the students will have a chance to share their sentences if they chose to. Closing: I will summarize the lesson by asking students what they thought about the lesson. I will collect their sentences to assess their knowledge of adjectives. Assessment of Objective(s): I will assess their knowledge of adjectives by listening to the group and individual work and hearing what kind of adjectives they add to the captions. I will assess their captions by seeing what kind of words/adjective(s) they added to the sentence.

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