Texas A&M UniversityCommerce

Daily Lesson Plan Form

Subject: Life SkillsGrade Level: 10th- 11th

English
Mentor: Terry Buckley
Campus/District:
Date: 02/ 03/ 15
Commerce High School
Overall Goal of Lesson: Expose students to identifying appositives and appositive phrases for increased
fluency and proficiency in student writing.
Teacher: Megan Lambert

Instructional Objectives: Students will be able to identify appositives and appositive phrases in a
sentence, use commas correctly with appositives, and be able to analyze what appositives do in a given
sentence.
Texas Essential Knowledge & Skills (TEKS) &
Key Vocabulary:
ELPS:(typed out completely)
Appositive, Noun, Appositive Phrase, Comma
110.32. (b) (18) Oral and Written Conventions/Handwriting,
Capitalization, and Punctuation. Students write legibly and use
appropriate capitalization and punctuation conventions in their
compositions. Students are expected to: (B) use correct
punctuation marks including:
(i) comma placement in nonrestrictive phrases, clauses, and
contrasting expressions
110.33. (b) (17) Oral and Written Conventions/Conventions.
Students understand the function of and use the conventions of
academic language when speaking and writing. Students will
continue to apply earlier standards with greater complexity.
Students are expected to:
(A) use and understand the function of different types of
clauses and phrases (e.g., adjectival, noun, adverbial
clauses and phrases); and[]

Higher Order Questions: What is common about the appositive phrases? Do you think the appositive
phrase is needed in this sentence? Why or why not? What does the appositive do in this sentence?
What would happen if we took the appositive out from this sentence?
Student Activities: (Keep in mind the following: Scaffolding, Independent or Cooperative activities, Groupings, Reading,
Writing, Listening, Hands-On/Minds-On, Connections to previous knowledge, etc)

Students will connect to previous knowledge (meaning of a sentence, comma, noun, and more), define
appositive orally, define the appositive phrase in example sentences, show where
commas go in a sentence with an appositive, create sentences with appositives in
them,
SPED Modifications/ELL Strategies
If students have difficulty dragging and
dropping the commas to the appositive
phrases in sentences (guided practice), the
teacher will use this as an opportunity to
re-teach, or provide more prompting as

Anticipatory Activity for Lesson: Students will be assessed

for their understanding and familiarity of the terms
comma, noun, and sentence by the teacher through
the following video with necessary pauses:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWRf9kKdoXI

necessary to students.

Time Allotted
5 min

5 min

15 min

15 min

5 min

Teacher Input/Lesson Activity: Teacher will introduce the concept of appositive by asking
students what they have heard of the term before. Once students make attempt at defining
the term, teacher will pull up a definition with examples, as well as the steps to find the
appositive/ appositive phrase in a sentence.
Modeling: Teacher will show sentences with appositives and appositive phrases, set off by
commas. The teacher will model the steps of finding an appositive in a sentence: Read the
sentence, Oval the commas, Theres your appositive (ROT). The teacher will also write a
sentence on the board and find the appositives in this sentence.
Guided Practice: The students will be directed to come up to the board, wherein three
sentences with appositive phrases (but missing commas) will be present. The students will
be asked to drag the commas with a pen toward the part of the sentence that requires it, and
will be able to check and see if they are correct. Students will converse with each other to
complete the activity, receiving teacher support only if frustrated.
Independent Practice: The students will have the opportunity to write some of their own
sentences that combine two others, inserting an appositive (ex. Steve is my friend, and
Steve is a middle school student, are to be combined into Steve, a middle school student,
is my friend).
Lesson Closure: Students will complete a short quiz on appositives, on the screen.
Assessment Methods/Strategies: Students will be assessed for background knowledge prior
to the lesson, assessed of knowledge of the process to find an appositive, assessed of their
understanding of appositives by creating their own sentences, as well as assessed at the
conclusion of the lesson with the interactive quiz.

Resources (supplies, equipment, software, etc.): Computer, promethean board, white board, marker, paper, pencil, flip chart
(http://www.prometheanplanet.com/en/Resources/Item/250075/appositives#.VM0SAmjF_w-)

Reflection: