Alison Selin
Instructional Design
3/16/08
Instruction Plan
Teacher: Miss Selin
Grade: 2
Subject: writing (poetry)
GLEs/EALRs
Writing
2. The student writes in a variety of forms for different audiences and purposes.
2.3. Writes in a variety of forms/genres.
2.3.1. Uses a variety of forms/genres.
3. The student writes clearly and effectively.
3.2. Uses appropriate style.
3.2.1. Writes with voice.
Topic
Limericks
Lesson Objective
After step by step instruction and guided practice, individually, students through discovery will write their own limericks.
Assessment
Formative: Teacher asks the students if they understand the AABBA rhyming scheme of a limerick. Teacher also asks students what the rhyming words are in a sample limerick.
Summative: Teacher grades the limericks that the students write and hand in. The limericks must use the AABBA rhyming scheme, and the word of course must rhyme properly.
Student Self Reflection: Students pair up and read their limericks to each other.
Learning Modalities
Visual: Students watch as teacher circles the rhyming words in red pen, and as she writes a limerick on the board at their instruction.
Auditory: Students listen as the teacher reads sample limericks.
Kinesthetic: Students practice writing their own limericks.
Accommodations
ESL (ELL): Teacher writes sample rhyming words on the overhead to help students think of words to use in their poems.
ADD/ADHD: Teacher allows these students to move around in the classroom if they need to. Teacher also keeps the lesson short in order to hold their attention.
Hearing impaired: Teacher speaks to the class with a microphone and repeats what other students say when they make a comment so that these students can hear the whole lesson.
Family Interaction Plan
Teacher sends paper home with students. The paper instructs students to write a limerick with a family member about a household pet. If no pets are kept in the home then the limerick should be written about the student’s favorite animal. The paper should give an example of a limerick and display the AABBA pattern as a guide for parents. This assignment should be done over the weekend and turned in on Monday morning.
Class Arrangement
Students sit in their desks which all face the front of the classroom where the overhead projection is located. Teacher needs an overhead projection, clear/blank overhead transparencies, dry erase pens, a few sample limericks copied onto overhead transparencies, blank lined paper for each student, and pencils for each student.
Teaching Steps
Anticipatory set: Students play The Syllable Factory game online and do the Rhyming Words activity on the SmartBoard to refresh their memories on counting syllables and creating words that rhyme. Then...
Teacher reads a limerick to the class and asks them if they know what the thing that she just read them is called. After the class has a few guesses the teacher tells them that it is called a limerick.
Inquiry/Discovery Lesson:
(see ‘class arrangement’ for materials needed)
1) Teacher reads a sample limerick to the class.
2) Teacher tells students about what limericks are.
3) Teacher shows the students the rhyming scheme of a limerick. (AABBA)
4) As a class, teacher and students pick out the rhyming words in sample limericks that are on the overhead. (Circle the rhyming words in red pen.)
5) As a class, teacher and students write a limerick together. (Teacher writes on overhead, students tell her what to write.)
6) Teacher hands out paper to students and instructs them to individually write their own limericks.
7) As students work quietly, teacher writes sample rhyming words on the overhead to help students brainstorm.
Closure:
Teacher walks around the room and reads the limericks that the students are writing. If the limericks are coming along well and the students show that they understand the AABBA rhyming scheme, the teacher hands out the family interaction lesson for the students to take home and work on with a family member.
Technology
Before the class begins to start the lesson on limericks they will play The Syllable Factory game which can be found online at:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/words/spelling/soundandspell/syllables/game.shtml
If the class has access to a SmartBoard they will also play the Rhyming Words game which can be found online at:
These two games will refresh the student’s memories on how to count syllables and pick out words that rhyme with each other. This will be a nice warm up activity to utilize because having knowledge of syllables and rhyming words is prerequisite to writing a proper limerick.
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