The lesson plans are constructed in the following manner to assist students in active learning: assessing prior knowledge or reviewing information from the previously taught lesson, a brief time period to transition into the work session, the main learning activity that assists students in meeting the primary learning objectives, and a conclusion which reflects on the information that was previously taught. This progression from an introduction to a conclusion provides a clear, logical organization of class time.
Whole Class Activities: Each lesson either builds up to or reflects on the central focus of the unit, for students to be able to adequately interpret the meaning of a poem. In each lesson, instructional scaffolds such as worksheets …show more content…
The terminology is presented in a magic square activity where students are required to match a number to its correlating letter in an attempt to get all of the numbers in the row to add to fifteen. In Dr. Pamela Bell’s A Little PDA Goes a Long Way: Strategies for Content Literacy textbook, the author states that the magic square strategy assists students in remembering vocabulary because the activity “reinforces and extends the student’s contextual knowledge of content area terms” (Bell 22). Students will be able to remember the terms presented in the magic square more successfully than if they were given a mundane matching activity because it provides a visualization and a new technique that sparks the students’ interests. The magic square activity also gives students the chance to check their answers for reassurance that they have learned the appropriate information.
The first lesson also requires students to complete a graphic organizer, which allows them to make connections among key concepts. This is appropriate for terminology related to figurative language, because there are different types of figurative language and examples specific to each …show more content…
This activity allows students to split up the information that they need to learn from the lesson, become experts in a specific area, and share their knowledge with their classmates. The A Little PDA Goes a Long Way: Strategies for Content Literacy textbook states that this is an effective strategy for covering a large amount of information in a short amount of time, and it allows students to develop an expertise on a specific topic (Bell 56). This will assist students in the learning process because it allows them to develop knowledge about a specific topic, share the knowledge with their classmates, and obtain knowledge on different subjects from their peers. They can then compare and contrast the information that they researched with other
Whole Class Activities: Each lesson either builds up to or reflects on the central focus of the unit, for students to be able to adequately interpret the meaning of a poem. In each lesson, instructional scaffolds such as worksheets …show more content…
The terminology is presented in a magic square activity where students are required to match a number to its correlating letter in an attempt to get all of the numbers in the row to add to fifteen. In Dr. Pamela Bell’s A Little PDA Goes a Long Way: Strategies for Content Literacy textbook, the author states that the magic square strategy assists students in remembering vocabulary because the activity “reinforces and extends the student’s contextual knowledge of content area terms” (Bell 22). Students will be able to remember the terms presented in the magic square more successfully than if they were given a mundane matching activity because it provides a visualization and a new technique that sparks the students’ interests. The magic square activity also gives students the chance to check their answers for reassurance that they have learned the appropriate information.
The first lesson also requires students to complete a graphic organizer, which allows them to make connections among key concepts. This is appropriate for terminology related to figurative language, because there are different types of figurative language and examples specific to each …show more content…
This activity allows students to split up the information that they need to learn from the lesson, become experts in a specific area, and share their knowledge with their classmates. The A Little PDA Goes a Long Way: Strategies for Content Literacy textbook states that this is an effective strategy for covering a large amount of information in a short amount of time, and it allows students to develop an expertise on a specific topic (Bell 56). This will assist students in the learning process because it allows them to develop knowledge about a specific topic, share the knowledge with their classmates, and obtain knowledge on different subjects from their peers. They can then compare and contrast the information that they researched with other