Cause and Effect and Narrative Writing Lesson Plan

1. Topic-

Cause and Effect and Narrative Writing "We can all remember or imagine a time that we had fun making or building something.

2. Content-

CVC division rule for spelling: river, habit, finish, cider, promise, bison, limit, diver, cabin, pity.
Antonyms, Articles, TIEFET, character, setting, problem, solution, attempts to solve the problem.

3. Goals: Aims/Outcomes-

Students will plan, draft, and revise a narrative writing prompt which includes the narrative elements.

4. Objectives-

1. match antonyms, synonyms, homophones
2.identify articles (a,an, the) and when to use each.
3.identify key words in an expository writing prompt.
4. Students will independently write acronym TIEFET and orally state the meaning of the acronym.
5. Students will complete the character, setting, and problem in a cloze procedure teacher provided prompt.

5. Materials and Aids-

pipe phone, elmo, antonym, synonym, homophone cards, cause effect game cards, basil "Ranika, the frog princess", word bank, elmo, writing folders, transition word bank

6. Procedures/Methods-

A. Introduction-

1.Motivate students to play/participate in Cause/Effect Game
2.Create a "Hamburger" graphic organizer with "juicy" detail toppings.
3. Introduce prompt " We can all remember or imagine a time that we had fun making or building something." Listen to students share examples of things they have built (lego sets, forts, Christmas presents.
4. Wednesday: "Who remembers the acronym TIEFET".
5. Thursday: Read aloud teachers first attempt to solve her problem in her story.
6. Friday: Read aloud teachers second attempt to solve her problem in her story.

B. Development-

1.Model highlighting the given statement (either cause/effect)and then going back to look before/after the given statement to find the unknown.
2. Verbally discuss various pieces of the graphic organizer.
3. model matching antonyms, synonyms, homophones

4. Tuesday: Introduce the concept of TIEFET acronym and explain definitions.
5. Have students select their own transition in and transition out phrases from their transition word bank, have them select failure and an emotion from word bank.
6. Thursday: Students will complete their TIEFET with their first and second ideas which fail to solve their problem.
7. Complete Thursday if necessary.

C. Practice-

1. students highlight and determine cause/effect
2. students offer verbal ideas to complete examples of focus sentence & details
3. match cards
4 2. Tuesday: Students write down TIEFET in their writing journals with definition/example
5. Wednesday: Students write down TIEFET vertically on paper and write self selected transitions, failure, and emotion next to corresponding acronym letter.
6. Orally read their TIEFET with all of the components.
7. Share TIEFET orally

D. Independent Practice-

1. Complete SRA reading cards
2. Complete Read Naturally Fluency Listening station
3. ARP reading/testing, FCAT Explorer, independent computer activity.
4 2. Tuesday: Fill in their cloze w.s. with characters, setting, and problem for building their item.
5. Orally share their beginning paragraph with group w/char., setting, problem.
6. Copy their two TIEFETS onto their cloze procedure w.s.
7. Complete sharing TIEFETS with class.

E. Accommodations (Differentiated Instruction)-

1.small group, one on one instruction
2. extended time, oral presentation.
3. AKV presentation
4. Use of word bank
5. Oral model and think aloud
6. Extra time
7. Small group instruction
8. Extra time

F. Checking for understanding-

1. Self Check SRA cards and cause/effect game, computer generated feedback
2. Orally create a focus statement and two reasons why.

G. Closure-

1. Orally review how to determine cause/effect
2. Orally review what a focus statement and two reasons which support as well as how to create a focus statement from a given prompt.
3. How does using an acronym help us in our writing and organization.

7. Evaluation-

1. Weekly spelling test (Friday)
2. Article quiz (Monday)
3. Quiz on Friday of TIEFET acronym and the words associated with the acronym.
4. Comprehension test (Friday)

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