Vocabulary Parade

           This lesson plan is based on the picture book Miss Alaineus: A Vocabulary Disaster by Debra Frasier. In the book, the main character, Sage, redeems herself after a hilarious vocabulary snafu with an award-winning costume in her school’s vocabulary parade. The lesson gives you step by step directions on how to plan a vocabulary parade in your class.

        I love this lesson it seems like such a fun way to teach vocabulary. The lesson is also a creative way to help ELL students relate in a real world way with the meaning of words. The lesson could also be used as an Alternative Assessment. You could differentiate the lesson for different levels of learners by how hard or easy the word is that you give the student. One important thing to think about is to try and give less financially impactful to create word costumes to families that may struggle financially. The alterative to this lesson that you could use with older students is instead of costumes do hats. I really loved the idea of the lesson and will defiantly be using it in my classroom someday.

 

Click here to view the lesson plan: http://rwtverio.ncte.org/lessons/lesson_view_printer_friendlybb33.html?id=47

Reading, Writing, Inference.... Oh MY

 

Reading comprehension skills can be a challenge for students especially our ESE students. This lesson plan teaches students to examine the traits of characters from their favorite books and learn to distinguish between factual character traits presented directly in the story and character traits that readers infer from the story. I know anything that helps with inference is a welcome addition to my lesson plan collection as it is one of the hardest things our students master.  What I like about this lesson is it includes many different strategies like graphic organizers and includes the use of technology. I also like the idea that they are starting out using this with characters they are familiar with later you could use this format for other stories they are reading with characters they are less familiar with and are more complex.  This lesson would be a great jumping off point for many other lessons like creative writing and FCAT reading practice.

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Here is the link: http://www.microsoft.com/education/en-us/teachers/plans/Pages/character-mapping.aspx

 

Why is it important for state governments to have a state constitution? What is
the purpose and importance of having a written plan for how a government
should operate? 
 These are all questions this lesson plan on Florida’s government address. Using different strategies like a graphic organizer for Florida State Government, Venn diagram comparing and contrasting the U.S. Constitution to that of Florida’s State Constitution. Which are all given in the lesson plan to copy. This lesson will leave students with a clear idea of how the Florida government works which I think is an important thing for students to learn and some of these lessons are no longer talked about as much in schools as there is no social studies FCAT. This lesson plan has some really helpful guides in it like a section called Steps to Deliver the Lesson which gives thought provoking questions and answers to give your students.  This lesson plan even has ELL student accommodation suggestions built in. The lesson plan as address Differentiated Instruction Strategies it has suggestion like while students are completing the graphic organizers, work individually with students who are having difficulty with reading. Or while students are completing the paragraph summary, work on an Individual basis with students who are having difficulty. It is an excellent lesson plan that has wonderful ideas and printouts as well as great strategies for teachers to implement from the lesson.

 

This link to this lesson plan is http://socialsciences.dadeschools.net/pdf/elementary_lessons-civic_integration/SS.4.C.1.1%20lesson.pdf

                               The lesson plan I found is called Book Buddy Biographies. This lesson plan can work with K-2 students. The objective of the lesson plan is to help students to be able to participate in a cooperative learning brainstorming session, developing a personalized list of questions, engage in an interview session, using a planning sheet, write, illustrate and edit a biography for their book buddies, present personalized biography to their book buddies and strengthen computer/writing skills by communicating with their buddies using e-mail.  The Book Buddies lesson plans pairs up a child from a primary class and a child from an intermediate class. I love the idea of students sharing books together.   During the three sessions of lessons students will create a personalized biography for their reading buddy as a great way to break the ice when Book Buddies meet for the first time. Students brainstorm questions they can ask to get to know their Book Buddy. They then use the questions to interview their Book Buddies. They write a biography of their new friend and publish it using an online tool. Book Buddies can then share their biographies with each other at their next session. The idea of integrating technology with the email component is also a great idea I will defiantly be using this lesson in my classroom.

                               The educational strategies involved in this lesson are cooperative learning and problem based learning of collaboration. Both of which I find very interesting,  I like how with these strategies in an inclusion classroom you can match up students by level and have them be able to connect.

I used the website read write think for this lesson they have an awesome collection of lessons for the reading and writing.

http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-plans/book-buddy-biographies-intermediate-160.html?tab=4#tabs