Editing sentences lesson plan

Lesson plan for teaching your grade 2 students how to self edit

Assessment:
  • Observation
Formative:
  • Observation
  • work samples
Summative:
  • Projects
Purpose:
  • Sharing purpose/objectives 
  • Check for understanding
  • Guided practice
  • closure
Collaborative/social skills:
  • Participating fully
  • Listening attentively
  • Thinking constructively
  • Celebrating achievement
Accommodations/modifications:
  • Oral explanation
  • use manipulative
  • include visuals
  • provide instruction throughout
Bloom's Taxonomy:
  • Knowledge
  • understanding
  • application
Materials:
  • three large posters with eight different sentences on each poster. 
  • Post its for each group
  • Phone for photos
Introduction (10 minutes)
·       Explain that editing is what they do in their daily language.
·       Look out for CAPITALS, punctuation, and spelling.
·       Explain their task.
·       They will be separated into 3 groups of 7 give or take.
·       They will each get a poster with 8 different sentences. (every poster is different)
·       They will be given ten minutes to write the correct response on a post it and stick it on top of the answer. (I will do an example on the white board)
·       After the ten minutes is up, I will take a picture of their answers (save for group review after activity). They will remove the post its and hand the poster over to another group.
Repeat same process as first round until all three posters have been completed by every team.

Lesson (30 minutes)
·       Separate into groups and give each group large piece of paper with different sentences.
·       They will be given sticky notes and they will write the correct replacement and stick it on top of the error.
Groups will get ten minutes to review the 8 sentences they have been provided with.

Extension/wrap-up (10 minutes)
·       Go over the answers that the groups came up with and the correct answers.
If there is extra time, I will have spare sentences ready on my computer to display on the whiteboard and to let the students edit.

Cross-Curricular-Competencies
·      1) To use information (QEP, p.16)
·      3) To exercise critical judgment (QEP, p.20)
·      5) To adopt effective work methods (QEP, p.26)
·      9) To communicate appropriately (QEP, p.38)
Progressions of learning language arts
·      Editing, rearranging/re-ordering what has already been written and proofreading (QEP, p.7)
·      Checks for spelling, punctuation and capitalization (QEP, p.7)
·      Checks for conventions of grammar (QEP, p.8)
·      Rearranges sentences and paragraphs for clarity and effect (QEP, p.8)
·      Mechanics (spelling, capitalization and punctuation) (QEP, p.4)
Competencies for ELA
·      To use language to communicate and learn (QEP, p. 99)
References:

Ministère de l’Éducation. (2001). Québec Education Program. Gouvernement du Québec. Retrieved from http://www.education.gouv.qc.ca/fileadmin/site_web/documents/PFEQ/educprg2001.p df

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