Introducing/reviewing adjectives grade 2

Language arts adjectives for grade 2:

Assessment: Observation
  • Formative: Observation, work samples
  • Summative: projects
Purpose: check for understanding, guided practice, independent practice.

Collaborative/social skills: 
  • Participating fully
  • Listening attentively
  • Reflecting on experience
  • thinking constructively
  • celebrating achievement
Accommodations/modifications:
  • Oral explanation
  • Include visuals
  • Provide instruction throughout
Bloom's taxonomy:
  • Knowledge
  • understadning
  • application
Multiple intelligences:
  • Linguistics
  • interpersonal
  • logical
Materials:
  • Google slides PowerPoint
  • Handout "my favourite animal"
  • Colouring pencils, pencil


Introduction (15 minutes)

  • Present a slideshow and review adjectives
  • The presentation shoudl go over how adjectives are used and where they should be palced. Explain handout.
  • Students will choose an animal to draw a picture of and answer the questions:
  1. What does my animal look like? 
  2. what does my animal feel like?
  3. what are 3 words that best describe my animal?

Lesson (20 minutes)
  • Students will complete the worksheet. 
Extension/wrap-up (5-10 minutes)
  • Make sure students understand how to use adjectives. As a wrap-up you can point to different objects in the classroom and choose a student to describe it for the rest of the class.
Cross curricular competencies:

·                  Competency 1: To Use Information p.16
o   Students will use information they know about animals to complete a simple description of their chosen animal.

·                 Competency 4: To Use Creativity p.22
o   Students will use creativity when drawing their chosen animal.

·                 Competency 5: To adopt effective work methods p.26
Progressions of learning:

·       “Understands the purpose for the production (e.g. to sell something, to influence the way people think, to give information, to entertain)” (QEP, p.4).

·       “Identifies and gathers material, resources, expertise for the production” (QEP, p.8).

·       “Uses images and/or print and/or sound to produce a familiar media text” (QEP, p.8).


·       “Considers feedback from peers and others” (QEP, p.8).

English language arts competencies:

·       Competency 4: To use language to communicate and learn (p.99)
o   Making sense of experiences that occur through multiple mediums, ex: reading, talking, watching…
o   Using language to communicate information to peers and educators through writing.

o   Experimenting with words that are appropriate for the task ex: The extensive use of adjectives.
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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