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Preplanning | Name: | Subject / Grade: grades 7/8 | |
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| Written Curriculum: Learning Standards Outcomes Resources: | 3033 Use adjectives (comparative and superlative forms) and adverbs appropriately to make writing vivid and precise. SE 7.17D Primary Resources: Glencoe The students will revise a piece of text with vivid , precise adjectives. | ||
| Body of Lesson | Taught Curriculum: Instructional Considerations Student Practice Guided Independent | Focus Lesson: of clues. · The Scribe records the number of guesses the Guesser takes.. · Students rotate rolls. · After the game, each group will Turn and Talk given the following guiding questions : What helped you guess the noun? What about those clues helped reveal the answer? How will this help with your writing? · Groups will share their response with the larger learning community. Model / Demonstrate · Teacher will provide an example of text that contains vivid, precise adjectives such as one from your primary resource. · The teacher may ask the following questions: How did this piece of text make you feel? Were you able to visualize what the author was trying to reveal? · The teacher provides another example of text with vivid , precise adjectives and the same piece of text where the adjectives are removed. · Teacher and students will compare and contrast the two pieces. · Teacher and students will revise the non example with other vivid adjectives. Teacher and student will create a criteria chart for writing a quality piece of text using vivid adjectives. Sample Criteria Chart for Using Adjectives to Enhance Writing Ø Create pictures in my mind Ø Used strong words Ø Used words that describe what I saw Ø Used words that describe what I hear Ø Used words that describe what I smelled Ø Used words that describe what I felt Ø Used words that describe what I tasted | |
| Closure | Tested Curriculum: Informal/ Formal Assessment and Feedback | ||
| Intervention/ Extension Curriculum: | Tier I : Intervention : Artistic Adjectives: Students are given a sentence strip, on which she/he will write a descriptive adjective in large cursive or manuscript letters. Students will Turn and Talk with a partner about adjectives_____________ Have student illustrate their adjective to make it look like what it describes. They may illustrate words such as: fierce, frigid, stupendous, sweltering, gorgeous, disgusting, striped, and many more. Tier II:Intervention Students will write adjectives to describe the people in their group. It will be a ferris wheel activity where students write their names on a piece of paper and leave it on their desks. On a signal from the teacher, | ||
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