1. Lesson Title: How to Write Your Answers

Lesson Plan 4

2. Grade/Age Level: Second Graders

3. Subject Area: Math – Story Problems

4. Time allotted for the lesson:

This lesson can be split up into 2 or 3 parts. It will take about 40 minutes to complete the section on writing your answer. It will take 30 minutes to complete the review. These can be done on different days or put together depending on the stamina and attention of the students. The test should be given separately. 40 minutes should be allotted for this.

5. Short description of lesson:

In this lesson, the learners will write a complete answer that explains the steps taken in solving a problem. They will also make their own personal review posters. An evaluation of skills will also be completed.

6. State Curriculum Standards met in this lesson:

Math Goals  Represent and solve problems involving addition and subtraction. (CCSS: 2.OA)

21st Century Skills  students offer ideas, strategies, solutions, justifications, and proofs for others to evaluate  Mathematics is a discipline grounded in critical thinking and reasoning. Doing mathematics involves recognizing problematic aspects of situations, devising and carrying out strategies, evaluating the reasonableness of solutions, and justifying methods, strategies, and solutions

Reading, Writing, Communication  Produce complete sentences when appropriate to task and situation in order to provide requested detail or clarification. (CCSS: SL.2.6)  Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking. (CCSS: L.2.1)  Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing. (CCSS: L.2.2)

7. Instructional Objectives:

a. The learners will use transition words when writing their answers.

b. Students will answer what they did, why they did what they did, and finally what they figured out when they solved the problem.

c. Students will include units in their answers.

8. Instructional Procedures

a. Lesson Set: Remember how we started by reading carefully even though we are doing math? Then we had to do the math steps. We are going to end by doing something else we don’t often associate with math – write. You don’t have to write much, but it is an important part.

b. Techniques and activities: 1. We started connecting math to reading. Now we need to connect to writing. When we write a retelling we often use transition words. Make a list of the transition words you can think of. (Students can write a list in their journals.) Discuss some examples they thought of and make a class list. 2. Show Lesson 4 slide. Show how each step in the process uses some different transition words. This can help you remember what to write. 3. Get worksheets out again and pick one problem to model to the students. Go through each step. 4. Have the students work with a partner and orally tell the other student what they could write. 5. Finally have the students write one complete answer.

c. Lesson Closure: Bring up Review slide. Either reiterate all steps or have students. Give each student a piece of white construction paper and have them draw their own review poster.

9. Adaptations for special learners: No special adaptations are necessary unless a student has difficulty writing. A student could dictate if needed.

10. Supplemental Activities: Extension and remediation: If more practice was needed students could practice on another problem on the worksheet.

11. Assessment/Evaluation: This is the point when an evaluation can be given. They can use the created poster to help them remember all the pieces of the solution. Give the test and make sure they include all parts.

12. Learner Products: Students will make their own review poster to refer to when needed.

* Note for learners: This lesson plan template is adapted from the model that is recommended in the book Preparing to Use Technology: A Practical Guide for Technology Integration.