EdTPA Lesson Plan Format, Grades 1 – 6 Fordham University Graduate School of Education
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EPLA!AT"#! The Capitalization Review writing lesson is intended to review the proper use of capitalization in writing. The class is currently writing small-moment personal-narratives. personal-narratives. Their personal-narratives include a beginning, middle middle and end, and an an ever-increasing ever-increasing amount of detail, detail, such as lists and dialogue. dialogue.
The class is an integrated co-teaching class with 25 students. our students are reading below grade level between emergent emergent reader and low !st grade reading levels. "dditionally "dditionally,, there are # students reading at a high first grade level $%&'. (i) students are enrolled in a school-based program called Read "head and receive e)tra reading support one day each wee*. ive students have +%s, and receive services including speech therapy and guidance counseling one of these students has been diagnosed on the "utism (pectrum. There There are three students in temporary housing. There are no %nglish anguage earners in the class. $E!T(AL F#$US or ESSE!T"AL *UEST"#! LEA(!"!G TA(GETS % ASSESS'E!TS +A"' #-.E$T"/E0
/ow would our small moments loo* if we left out capital letters0 (tudents will be able to accurately employ the correct capital letters within their personal narrative, guided reading response, and other writing assignments. They will be re-introduced to the idea of reviewing and editing their writing, to correct mista*es. The goal of this lesson is for them to edit their wor* for capitalization capitalization errors, both failing to use a capital letter when it is needed, and&or using it incorrectly. incorrectly. re-assessment re-assessment has been completed, through observation of students small moment personal-narratives, personal-narratives, where many students continue to struggle in the employment and use of proper capitalization in their writing " *ey gateway for this lesson is student participation in the whole class activity, which will be adding&correcting adding&correcting capitalization mista*es in sentences, as well as the observation of student wor* during their independent wor* time. 1uring their independent wor*, students will correct a brief small moment personalnarrative that has several capitalization errors $either missing capital capital letter or the incorrect use of a capital letter.' letter.' +f they struggle to complete this, *ey points will be retaught. (ummative assessments assessments will be completed in through a review of students in-class independent wor*.
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nowledge of anguage, 34 "pply *nowledge of language to understand how language functions in different conte)ts, to ma*e effective choices for meaning or style, and to comprehend more fully when reading or listening. Language Standard, Standard, Grade 2: 1emonstrate command of the conventions of standard %nglish capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing. a. Capitalize holidays, product names, and geographic names. b. se commas commas in greetings greetings and closings of letters. c. se an apostrophe to form contractions and fre6uently occurring possessives. REVIEW: REVIEW: Language Standard, Standard, Grade 1: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing. a. Capitalize dates and names of people. b. Use end punctuation for sentences. c. Use commas in dates and to separate single words in a series.
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