Lesson Plan For Thursday Decemeber 11th Dialogue

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Lesson Plan

Instructor: Michelle Fife


Date: December 5th, 2014
Curriculum Outcomes:
Apply writing strategies consistently
and with minimal prompting.
Take risks with writing (e.g., try a new
form, use new vocabulary, use
complex sentences)

Subject: Language Arts


Grade: Four
Non Curriculum Objectives:
- Work on listening skills.
- Staying on task.
- Work together in small groups.
- Being successful while working
with classmates.

Main Objective:
- For students to understand why we
use quotation marks when we are
dialoguing
-For students to understand where to
put quotation marks.

Before Lesson ( 5 minutes)


- Start lesson by asking students their previous knowledge on Dialogue
- Ask students: What is dialogue?
- How can we tell who is talking in a movie?
- How we can tell when someone is talking when we read comic books?
How can we tell when people are talking in chapter books, or a piece of
writing?
During Lesson( 15 minutes)
- Talk to students how dialogue brings excitement to our stories.
- Talk to students how we use quotation marks. How quotation marks are
used when the person begins to talk and when the person stops
talking.
- Ex: I really like teaching grade four! shouts Miss Fife
- Talk to students about how quotation marks signify when someone is
talking
- Read the power point story the Grinch Stole Christmas
- Get students to dialogue with each other only using white boards.
- Give the students the Grinch Scene ( Get them to talk about Christmas
while dialoguing on the white boards)
After Lesson( 20 minutes)
- Hand out students a comic strip, or picture to prompt kids to write.
- Give students choice which picture they would like to fill out.

Get students to dialogue what they think the people and/or animals
are saying in the pictures
Share their writing with the class.

Materials:
- The Smart board
- Computer
- White boards for each student
- White board markers
- White board erasers
- Pencils
- Erasers
- Writers Notebook ( Under the
editing section)
- Pencil crayons( if time to color
pictures)

Evaluation: Will be through


summative assessment:
- Participation in class
- Their writing and if they use
quotation marks properly.

What are the students doing?


- Listening to the mini
lesson/participating
- Listening to the mini lesson
- Participating in the white board
dialogue
- Writing their own dialogue on
the worksheet

What the teacher is doing?


- Teaching mini lesson on
dialogue
- Helping students with smart
board activity
Walking around, listening and helping
students write dialogue.

Reflection:
What went well?

Modification:
-Gifted learners: can try to use
different vocabulary in their dialogue.
-Students who are struggling will be
asked to write less in their notebooks.
( I will also have word list close by to
help with spelling)

What would I change?

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