Lesson Plan
Lesson Plan
Lesson Plan
Year level/ age range & number of children: Highlight planning process:
26 Year 4 students Planned collaboratively with Supervising Teacher
Planned collaboratively with peer
Estimated duration of the learning experience: Planned independently based on ST lessons
Lesson block = 50 minutes Planned Independently
Deconstruction of Supervising Teacher’s lesson
Prior learning and background of the children:
Through marking students’ writing it is obvious that some students require support to correctly use contractions;
using and correctly placing an apostrophe to represent the missing letter/s. This need for support was also
emphasised through conversation with one student who stated they did not know where to put the ‘silly thing’ in the
word.
Given that most students attempt to use apostrophes in contractions (they just forget sometimes or misplace them)
it is apparent that they have engaged with this concept before. However, this grammar lesson will begin with a short
discussion of what a contraction is (using this terminology and also an example) to establish students’ prior
knoweldge.
Learning intention (aim):
*NOTE: Each week the students participate in 1 grammar lesson which may align with a specific unit focus, or be used
to support them with other aspects of their writing. During this time the teacher introduces the grammar lesson
before handing over to an SSO who will monitor the class while the teacher completed guided reading with 3 student
groups. This lesson plan will outline both the grammar lesson and guided reading focus during this time.
Grammar Learning Intention: to understand that when two words are contracted into one, an apostrophe is used to
signal missing letters.
Guided Reading Intention: to understand what they are reading by answering questions about the text.
Learning area: English
Specific Topic:
- Grammar: contractions
- Guided reading: comprehension – decoding texts
Blurb:
- Timmy’s hard work pays off.
- Is a star in school team and being recruited for faster & stronger team than he is used too.
- Needs to train hard
Chapter 01:
Summary:
Timmy playing soccer, using head to get goal, team wins, best mate impressed but Studs and Hacker are not and
make fun, man in suit approaches coach.
Questions:
- What sport is Timmy playing? Soccer
- What is a hat-trick?
- Who is his best mate? Mike
- What team is he a part of? The Lions
- What do you think about Studs & Hacker – not very nice, worried about Timmy being better than them & taking
‘all their glory’
- Who could the man in the suit be?
Potentially tricky vocabulary:
- Substitute
- Referee
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