Lesson Plans

Standards-Based Outcomes (MDE):

English Language Arts:

Meaning and Communication

Content Standard 1: All students will read and comprehend general and technical material.

1) Use reading for multiple purposes, such as enjoyment, gathering information, learning new procedures, and increasing conceptual understanding.

Content Standard 2: All students will demonstrate the ability to write clear and grammatically correct sentences, paragraphs, and compositions.

3) Plan and draft texts, and revise and edit in response to suggestions expressed by others about such aspects as ideas, organization, style, and word choice.

Skills and Processes

Content Standard 7: All students will demonstrate, analyze, and reflect upon skills and processes used to communicate through listening, speaking, viewing, reading, and writing.

4) Develop and use a variety of strategies for planning, drafting, revising, and editing different forms of texts for specific purposes. Examples include brain- storming, revising with peers, sensitivity to audience, and strategies appropriate for purposes, such as informing, persuading, entertaining, and inspiring.

Prior Knowledge:

Students are able to read the informational trade book Animal Colors with at least 90% accuracy.
Students are familiar with the writing process.
Students are familiar with the computer and able to access the Super Print program from the hard drive.

Cue Set:

Show the students pictures of camouflaged animals and ask if they can find animals in the pictures. Have students make predictions about the types of animals that are camouflaged and for what reasons they are hiding themselves

Best Shot Instruction:

Students will read the book Animal Colors in a small group setting. They will pause often to discuss each animal and the reasons for its color(s).

Independent Student Activities:

Each student will choose an animal to write about.

The student will complete an idea web that includes the animal’s name, where it can be found, what it looks like, how it uses its colors (to hide, to attract, or to scare away predators), and any other important information.

Using the web to organize ideas, the student will complete a draft, putting each idea into a good sentence.

Teacher-Student Interaction:

The student will revise and edit the draft with the teacher in order for the teacher to determine each student’s understanding of the topic.

The teacher will model the publishing portion of the lesson on the computer and its monitor system by typing a paragraph and creating a graphic illustration to enhance the writing.

Integration of Technology:

Students will use the Super Print program to publish big book pages. They will first use the test frame to type their paragraphs and then use the draw program to create graphic illustrations of their camouflaged animals in their different environments.

Reteaching and Enrichment:

Students create lists of animals that use colors.
Students may choose different animals and create additional pages for the big book.

Review and Closure:

The students will be able to print their pages after they have checked to make sure that they have included each detail of their webs as well as illustrations which show their animals using colors.
The students will read student copies of the book in reading groups.
The students will share the big book with other classes.

Assessment:

The student’s completed big book page will include an edited paragraph with an illustration to match the writing.

The student scores 80% or better using the following rubric:

1. includes animal’s name,
2. includes description of animal,
3. includes where animal can be found,
4. includes how the animal uses its colors,
5. uses complete sentences,
6. uses proper punctuation (capitals and periods),
7. uses a picture which matches the writing,
8. includes student's name on the bottom.

East Detroit Public Schools Lesson Design

East Detroit Public Schools
Lesson Design