Strategy Lesson Plan: Quick Write, Think-Pair-Share, Paired Writing

Adverb Lesson Plan by Carly Lopez and Rebecca Meyer

Objectives

1. Students will be able to produce writing that that is organized and developed (ELA grade 8 standard: Production and Distribution of Writing 4. Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. (Grade-specific expectations for writing types are defined in standards 1–3 above.)) 2. Students will be able to understand the relationship between adverbs and the words they modify. (ELA grade 8 standard: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use 5. Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings)

Materials 1. Text: Prentice Hall Writing and Grammar: Communication in Action Silver Level 2. Text: Lazily, Crazily, Just a Bit Nasally: More about Adverbs by Brian P. Cleary, illustrated by Brian Gable 3. Powerpoint 4. Markers 5. Construction Paper

Content Outline

1. Verbs to be used in Using a Thesaurus for Word Mapping Strategy and Writing Roulette Strategy (give one example of adverb on index card): a. Chew- seldom b. Paints- slowly c. Wake up- cheerily d. Say- chattily e. Dance- terribly f. Write- sloppily

Rationale

We selected the strategy Word Mapping because it will serve as a useful tool to enrich and expand the vocabularies of the students. Writing Roulette allows students to use their creativity while also creating meaningful sentences from the vocabulary they are familiarizing themselves with. During Think-Pair-Share, students access their background knowledge on the use and understanding of adverbs and also engage in thinking and reflecting upon this topic. The texts selected are conducive to teaching grammar. Prentice Hall’s Writing and Grammar Communication in Action is a texts the students are familiar with and comfortable using. Lazily, Crazily, Just a Bit Nasally More about Adverbs builds the students knowledge by explaining what an adverb is and giving them examples. It is also a motivating read for students because it uses something that the students are interested in, such as cartoons. Adverb Lesson Plan by Carly Lopez and Rebecca Meyer

Anticipatory Set

In order to grab the students’ attention, we will be using the Think-Pair-Share strategy to allow students’ to discuss what they already know about adverbs. This will activate their prior knowledge, allow them to share with each other what they know, and work cooperatively in a group, which does not happen often. Student’s will be prompted to discuss what they know about adverbs, share with a partner their thoughts, and then come together as a whole class. Through this activity, students will be prepared for the lesson ahead, and will also have their curiosity peaked as to what is to follow.

Learning Activities

2. Think Pair Share a. Ask students to consider their existing/prior knowledge of adverbs. b. Give students one minute to think about this on their own. c. Have students talk with a partner for 45 seconds each to share their ideas. d. Share ideas as a whole class.

3. Explanation of Adverbs a. An adverb modifies a verb, an adjective, or another adverb b. Often end in –ly but do not have to c. An adverb modifying a verb will answer one of these 4 questions: i. Where? ii. When? iii. In what way? iv. To what extent? d. Have students find verbs and adverbs in sentences by identifying them on the white board.

4. Read Lazily, Crazily, Just a Bit Nasally a. After reading, select words from text to model in next strategy. b. Look under content outline in lesson plan to get words.

5. Using a Thesaurus for Word Mapping Strategy a. This strategy provides students with an easy means to expand and enrich their vocabularies. (Thesaurus is helpful but not necessary) b. Model this strategy for students using verbs: give (freely, lovingly, secretly, abundantly, whole-heartedly, stingily) c. Project word map from powerpoint onto board. d. Have students help fill in remaining spaces on white board e. Have students fill out cards with word map in groups of 3 including at least 6 adverbs for their verb. Use construction paper to draw the word map on f. Have students share their word map with the whole class Adverb Lesson Plan by Carly Lopez and Rebecca Meyer

6. Writing Roulette a. This is a strategy where students create a story with 3 basic parts: setting and characters, a problem or goal, and a resolution. Students must include at least two words in each paragraph. Students pass their papers so that other students have to write the problem/goal and another student finishes by writing the resolution. This can easily be done in groups of students. b. Model this strategy for students using 3 paragraphs from powerpoint i. Paragraph 1 sets up setting and characters ii. Paragraph 2 gives a problem iii. Paragraph 3 gives a resolution c. Use groups students are already in from word map strategy to complete the writing roulette. Tell students each paragraph needs at least 2 adverbs in it. i. Students work as a group to write paragraph then pass it to next group to write second paragraph, then once more to a third group to write third paragraph. d. Give students 10 minutes to complete this activity. e. Have students get their original stories back and read them within their group. f. Pick 2 groups to share their stories with the whole class.

Assessment

Complete homework on page 368 in textbook exercise 37.

This assessment meets the objectives because it requires students to write sentences and understand the relationship between verbs, adverbs, and adjectives (review from previous lesson).