SIOP Lesson Plan Components
Topic:Choice Adjectives / Class:
4th/5th Grade Writing / Population Description:
SEI Classroom / Time Frame:
1 class period
Preparation
AZ State Content Standards:4th/5th Strand 2: Writing Elements
Concept 4: Word Choice
PO 1: Use a variety of specific and accurate words that effectively convey the intended message.
PO 2: Use descriptive words and phrases that energize the writing. / AZ ELL Proficiency Standards:
ELL III Intermediate: Writing
Writing Elements
1. Use the writing process to produce text up to two paragraphs long in various genres that includes:
d. varied word choices that are specific, accurate, and more expressive.
Content Objectives:
All students will use choice adjectives in a piece of writing. / Language Objectives:
All students will identify adjectives in a piece of writing. All students will write a description using choice adjectives.
Key Vocabulary:
listless, broiling, alleyway, drooping, lupines / Learning Strategies:
buddy share
cooperative groups
To Tell The Truth / Materials:
SMART Board lesson “Choice Adjectives”
Chato's Kitchen by Gary Soto / Higher Order Questions:
Why do you think it is important to use choice adjectives in your writing?
Instruction
Building Background: Links to Experience & Learning:SMART Board Page 2
· Have a volunteer come to the front of the room. Ask students to describe the person. Record their answers.
· Tell students they are now going to listen to a description of a character from a book and they are to draw what they think the character looks like.
· Read an excerpt from Chato's Kitchen
· Have students share their picture with a buddy and discuss why they drew what they did.
· Ask students what words were key in helping them draw their pictures.
· Have students revise their description of their classmate. / Building Background: Key Vocabulary Activities:
SMART Board Page 4
· Play "To Tell the Truth" with pictures of the key vocabulary
Presentation: Lesson Delivery:
SMART Board Page 3
· Review with students what an adjective is.
· Talk about how adjectives help authors convey a feeling or picture to the reader.
SMART Board Page 5
· Read excerpt from "Come On Rain" by Karen Hesse
· Have students highlight adjectives and the nouns they describe.
· Discuss how the adjectives create a more accurate picture of the nouns. / Practice/Application: Activities:
SMART Board Page 6
· Divide students into groups.
· Show a picture and have students write a sentence using a choice adjective to describe the picture.
· Have groups share their sentences.
SMART Board Page 7
· Have students use a thesaurus to find choice adjectives to replace the underlined adjectives.
Review and Assessment
· Have students write about a time you were very cold using choice adjectives. Students can write their description as either a paragraph or a poem.