Lesson Plan 4 - Writing
Objectives:
Students will be able to:
Identify vocabulary.
Materials:
Activities:
1. Review vocabulary.
2. Read stories and poems produced by other children and discuss with students.
Example:
Haiku Poem
Oxygen
The trees give us air air so we can breathe in life the air - we love it!!
Diamonte Poem (comparing a rainforest animal to another)
snake slimy, long slithering, hissing, squirming poisonous, scaly, fast, spotted playing, sleeping, preying big, ferocious cheetah
4. Demonstrate to students how to make a capital letter (hold the shift key down when
striking key), how to move down a line (hit the "enter key"), and how to center words
(highlight and click center align). You can also explain how to make the first letter
larger and bold (highlight letter, click on size - make larger, and click the "B").
5. Students will also be able to go on-line to read poems and stories produced by other children.
6. Students will type their own acrostic and diamonte poem on the computer and pick one to
share with the class.
7. Discuss what they need in a narrative story and give them examples. (1. move through a logical
sequence of events or 2. describe the setting, characters, objects and events in details)
8. Students will look at a sloth, toucan, emerald tree boa, jaguar or a red-eyed tree frog and
they must choose one to write about.
9. They will describe in narrative form how the rainforest animal adapts to living in the rainforest.
Evaluation:
Home Learning:
