Week 4, Assignment # 2 - Simple ELA lesson plan

Assignment#2 Create a simple ELA lesson plan

     Grade level: 4^th Grade

  Common core standards and learning outcomes:

• Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
• Use combined knowledge of all letter-sound correspondences, syllabication patterns, and morphology (e.g., roots and affixes) to read accurately unfamiliar multisyllabic words in context and out of context.

• Instructional activities (how does this game help develop language acquisition and development, both oral and written, be creative?)

• Students will be able to reinforce their phonics and word analysis skills by creating words from a given amount of letters.
• They will have rely on syllabication pattern and morphology awareness to create words.

Assessment:

• At the conclusion of the game, the students will take a screenshot of the board.  They will hand it in for the teacher to review.  The teacher will grade both students as a team.  The winner will get 5 bonus points.  For each vocabulary word used (from all year, the students will get an 5 points.  For each multi-syllable words, they will get 3 points per syllable.

       Debriefing:

Students will answer the following questions in their journals:

• What was challenging about this game?
• What word scored you the most points in the game?
• What letters were the hardest for you to place and why?
• What are some strategies you were able to use?

         Cognitive Skills:

Planning moves

• Flexibility – being able to change their move based on the outcome of the other players move
• Reading: decoding and recoding words
• Analyzing/evaluating – but playing the board.

        What new literacy skills do this game help to cultivate?

• Basic computer skills such as, turning on the computer, logging into the computer, accessing the Internet, finding the game, creating the game, communicating through the game, creating a screenshot of the game, and printing the screenshot, maybe emailing the screenshot, and word processing in their digital journal.  They might have to do some basic troubleshooting if something isn’t working correctly.