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.