Teacher

Kelsi Matson

Subject Area
Writing

Grade Level
1st

Unit Title
Parts of a Sentence: Adjectives

Lesson Title
Show Not Tell

Materials/Resources
Frog and Toad, Night Noises, white board, markers, small white
boards, erasers, pencils, notebooks.

Standard(s)
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.1.1.b
Build on others' talk in conversations by responding to the
comments of others through multiple exchanges.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.1.5
Add drawings or other visual displays to descriptions when
appropriate to clarify ideas, thoughts, and feelings.
Anticipatory Set
(List specific statements or
activities you will use to focus
students on the lesson)
Do you know what adjectives are?
Lets make a list of adjectives on the board.
We know what Show-And-Tell is, but do you know what Show-
Not-Tell is?
Lets read Frog and Toad, and see if we can find where the author
SHOWS us instead of TELLING us.


Learning Goal (BLO)
After a review of adjectives and descriptive sentences, students
will independently create one Show-Not-Tell sentence of their
own in their notebook, using 3 or more adjectives.
Input
(What information is essential for
the student to know before
beginning and how will this skill be
communicated?)
A review of adjectives will be given by the teacher. Class will
collaboratively discuss different adjectives while the teacher
records them in a list on the board.

Lesson Activities (very specific and
thorough)
1. Review of adjectives will be given with a list made on the
white board.
2. The teacher will read Frog and Toad.
3. Reread the lines The sun is shining. The snow is melting.
4. Ask the students what time of year is being described,
and how do they know?
5. Write "Oliver purrs, yawns, and stretches his claws" on
board.
6. Teacher will ask, "What kind of an animal is Oliver?"
7. Explain how descriptive words (adjectives) can SHOW
what an object is instead of TELLING.
8. Ask a student to pick a noun to show.
9. Have students participate in group discussion to create a
descriptive sentence about the noun chosen.
10. Students will individually create one Show-Not-Tell
sentence of their own in their notebook.
11. Each student will share.
12. Read the class a passage from Night Noises by Mem Fox.
"Outside, clouds raced along the sky, playing hide-and-
seek with the moon. Wind and rain rattled at the
windows, and trees banged against the roof."
13. Have students sketch on paper what they "see."
14. Explain and discuss how adjectives and descriptive
sentences can create a picture in your mind.
15. Create picture sentences as a group, recorded on white
board.
16. Students will use individual white boards to draw the
sentences recorded on the board.
17. Students will be broken up into pairs and each will create
their own sentences.
18. One partner will read his sentence aloud to the other, and
they will have to draw what they think the sentence is
describing, and vice versa.
19. Partners will share sentences and drawings with the class.

Model
(If you will be demonstrating the
skill or competence, how will this
be done?)
Teacher will use Frog and Toad, as well as Night Noises to model
Show-Not-Tell and descriptive sentences.
Check for Understanding
(Identify strategies to be used to
determine if students have learned
the objectives)
Students will be broken up into pairs and each will create their
own sentences.
One partner will read his sentence aloud to the other, and they
will have to draw what they think the sentence is describing, and
vice versa.
Guided Practice
(List activities which will be used
to guide student practice and
provide a time frame for
completing this practice).
Class will work in pairs to create picture sentences (descriptive
sentences that can be seen in your mind). One partner will read
his sentence aloud to the other, and they will have to draw what
they think the sentence is describing, and vice versa. This will take
20 minutes.
Closure
(What method of review will be
used to complete the lesson?)
Partners will share sentences and drawings with the class.
Teacher will review adjective list.

Adaptations for Special Needs
LA19. Teach reading and writing together
LA30. Cooperative learning