North Carolina 6-Point Lesson Plan

Teacher: Jennifer Malone Subject: Reading Grade: 1 Date:

Standard: 1.RFS.1 Demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of print. 1. 1.RFS.1.1 Recognize the distinguishing features of a sentence (e.g., first word, capitalization, ending punctuation).

Activity I. Focus and Review (Establish prior knowledge) II. Statement (Inform student of objectives) III. Teacher Input (Present tasks, information, and guidance)

Description of Activities and Setting

Materials and Time Review capital letters, proper nouns, and SMART board punctuation. Play youtube video the Interactive pen punctuation song to review punctuation. Internet access http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8FDnDEkjcg youtube 10 minutes Using proper captilization and punctuation, 5 minutes students will be able to correctly write a sentence with few mistakes. Using a SMARTboard, bring up a few sentence SMART board. examples. Using the interactive pen, highlight Interactive pen the first word, the punctuation and any capital 30 minutes letters. Highlight each one in a different color, the first word should be yellow, any punctuation green, and the capital letters red. Inform the class of what each highlighted section means. the first word of the sentence is where we begin talking or reading. In this case, I have highlited the first words of our sentences in yellow. Remember we just talked about capital letters? The first word of every sentence begins with a capital letter. Also, any proper nouns within a sentence begin with capital letters too! As we can all see in our examples, these are highlighted red. And to end our sentences, we use proper punctuation. Right now, we will stick to periods, question marks, and exclamation points. I have highlighted the punctuation in our sentences in green. They always go at the end of a sentence.

IV. Guided Practice (Elicit performance, provide assessment and feedback) V. Independent Practice (Retention and transfer)

VI. Closure (Plan for maintenance)

Using a SMARTboard, bring up additional examples of sentences. Having students raise their hands to volunteer, call on three students for each sentence. Using the pen, have each student highlight one of the three: punctuation, the first word, or any capital letters. Have each student take out a piece of notebook paper and a pencil. everyone will write two sentences using a period, two using a question mark, and one using an exclamation point. Walk around to check on students progress, individually correct students as you go. Answer any questions students may have. Students must turn in assignment when done. If finished early, students may take out their personal books and read quietly. After all papers are turned in and students have returned from their activities (such as music class, gym, or lunch) we will read a story together on the SMARTboard. I will read the story and highlight the first word of each sentence as we go along. After the story is complete, the helper of the week will get to come up and highlight all ending punctuation. Now, having students raise their hands, call on volunteers to highlight capital letters. After this is complete, hand back papers for corrections. If students need multiple corrections, instead of personal reading time, have them meet with me at their desks for further explanation on their mistakes and why it was incorrect.

SMARTboard Interactive pen 15 minutes

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SMARTboard Interactive pen 15 20 minutes