Friday, September 26, 2014

Teach Now (Teacher Certification): Materials Matrix

Module 5 Unit 3 Activity 3



I did this one wrong. I kind of thought we needed to do a lesson plan so I went ahead and did what I had to do. I still got an outstanding and even better I didn't have to do next week's first activity because this is exactly what they were looking for. I guess I killed two birds with one stone...


Module 5 Unit 3 Activity 3
Analia Kim
Materials Matrix

Course: Language Arts

Grade Level: 2nd Grade

Diversity of students for which differentiation is needed:  In the near future, I envision myself working at an international school with elementary school children. I believe that if the school is anything like the international school I attended all my life, the young learners will be mostly native, and a then have a few that are either TCKs, or children from parents who move around due to their jobs.
The students will be fluent in English which will be a great change from the low level students I currently teach, and if I manage to stay around Asia, I would believe that these students would be generally well behaved.
Currently I have no students with disabilities, but it is more than likely that I will encounter a student with either a physical or learning disability. Being able to teach a differentiated classroom will be great help for the teacher and the students in this situation as well.
I would like to teach children from the third grade up to the sixth grade and perhaps even consider teaching middle school after a few years teaching elementary students. With international school children and students coming in and out of the school knowing how to teach a differentiated classroom will be very helpful and hopefully ease different students into achieving high standards without having a negative impact on their attitude towards school. The major factor will be getting to know my students and their abilities and carefully figure out how to maximize their learning as a whole class.

Standard being addressed: Florida Standard Code: LAFS.1.L.1.2

Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
  
Lesson Objective:
·         Students will be able to identify incorrectly capitalized words.
·         Students will be able to correct errors in sentences that include capitalization of proper nouns.

Lesson: 30 minutes






Activity
Description
Time
Materials

Do Now/ Warm-Up

Students will turn to their partner and tell them what a noun is.

Their partner will repeat it to them.

Then they will come up with examples of 5 nouns per student.

Objective: To review and make sure students understand what nouns are.

Formative Assessment:
The teacher will go around the room listening to the students and reading their answers to see if they remember from their previous lesson what nouns are.

Differentiation: Students with problems will be able to listen to their partner first and they can help the lower level students come up with examples.

The teacher will then write some of their examples of nouns on the board.



3 minutes
















3 minutes

·         Pencil
·         Paper







·         Whiteboard

Lesson (I Do)

The teacher will explain that while a noun names a person, place, thing, or idea, a proper noun is more specific. It gives the actual name of the person, place, thing, or idea.

Next to the examples of the nouns that the teacher has written, he/she will write a proper noun and explain that the noun is more general. For example:

man/ James
woman/ Mary
chair/ La-Z-Boy
state/ California

Then the teacher explains that all proper nouns are capitalized and writes examples on the board.

Objective: Students will be able to identify incorrectly capitalized words.
Formative Assessment:
The teacher can ask for thumbs up, neutral, or down depending on if they feel like they understood the lesson.




10 minutes

·         Whiteboard

Guided Practice
(We Do)

The teacher will have a Prezi/ PowerPoint with sentences that have capitalization mistakes and the students will correct these mistakes in the sentences with the teacher. 

Objective: This exercise will prepare them for the activity that they have to do alone on a worksheet that the teacher will provide.

Differentiation: The teacher can call on lower level students for some of the easier questions on the Prezi/ PowerPoint that they may be able to recognize with the help of the teacher. For higher level students ask them to come up and solve the more difficult mistakes.




4 minutes

·         Prezi/ PowerPoint
·         Projector
·         Computer
·         Internet
·         Screen

Independent Practice (You Do)

The teacher gives them a worksheet with different sentences where they will have to capitalize the proper nouns.

Objective: Students will be able to correct errors in sentences that include capitalization of proper nouns.

Differentiation: For higher levels students, they can be given a different worksheet where they have to also correct the mistakes where the words are incorrectly capitalized or also make them write their own paragraph.  

Formative Assessment: Give the students homework to correct the next day and see if they really understood the lesson



7 minutes

·         Worksheet
·         Pencil

Review

The teacher will go over the answers with everyone and review the lesson on capitalization of proper nouns.

Objective: Students correct their wrong answers to check for understanding. Students ask questions to clarify any key points.

Formative Assessment: Teacher will ask questions to random students to check for understanding of the lesson.

3 minutes

·         Worksheets
·         Pencils
·         Erasers





No comments:

Post a Comment