Dulce Meneses

EDEL 452
3/11/17

Lesson Plan

Title: What Do You Mean? Lesson Plan for word analysis or word meaning
Materials: Elmo, colored markers, worksheet with sentences, journals, pencils,
Whiteboard, Dictionary or chromebook, squishy item or ball
Time: 30 minutes
Grade Level: 7th Grade

Standards:
CCSS.ELA.RI.7.4: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a
text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings; analyze the impact of a
specific word choice on meaning and tone.

Objectives:
Instructional Objective: Students will determine the meaning of words within text by
using 3 steps: look before the word, at the word and after the word to determine the
meaning and make a prediction of the meaning of the words within text.

Teacher Objective: The student will define words within a text.

Anticipatory Set: (1 minutes)

Teacher and students will discuss past experiences when they have come across words
that they did not know the meaning of. By a show of hands, how many of you have
looked at a billboard or read an article in a magazine and as you were reading you came
across a word you did not know what it meant?

Teaching Input: (5 minutes)

Teacher will provide the definitions to vocabulary words (definition, inference, context
clue). Teacher will explain the 3 steps to determine the meaning of an unknown word by
looking at the text surrounding the word. The 3 steps are looking at what is before the
word, looking at the word and looking at what is after the word then you are able to make
a prediction and lastly looking up the definition if needed. Students will write definitions
and model examples in their journals. Students will have written definitions in their
journals upon sitting in their seat.

Teaching Modeling: (12 minutes)

Teacher will do examples on the Elmo. Teacher will post on Elmo printed sentences
with an underlined word that is the unknown word within a text. Teacher will
demonstrate the use of Before, At, After words to determine the meaning of the word,
teacher will use color markers to circle those words within the text that help determine
the prediction of the meaning of the word. Teacher will do 2 examples.
Teaching Checking for Understanding: (2 minutes)
Teacher will do one example with the students. Student will provide feedback on what
words should be circled in the text and give prediction of the meaning of the unknown
word and those who agree will give a thumbs up and those that dont will give a
thumbs down.

Teaching Guided Practice: (8 minutes)

Students will work on their own worksheet with a partner. Worksheet contains 3
sentences that students will read, practice all 3 steps and circle those words that help
determine their prediction. Students will write their prediction of what the word means
and will also look up the word and write the definition to compare prediction to textual
definition.

Closure: (2 minutes)
Students will engage in a whip around where they will discuss one thing that they
learned from the days lesson. Students will toss a ball or squishy item to each other
(volunteers) and give one piece of information that they learned in class today.

Independent Practice: (5 minutes)

Students will have 2 sentences on the second page of their worksheet that they are to
complete on their own without their partner. They will not need to look up the definition
for these 2 problems.

Assessment: (will not be done in this lesson)

I would not administer an assessment at the end of this lesson as the information was just
introduced and the lesson was designed more for practice but when it became time for an
assessment I would administer a formal assessment. In this assessment students would
receive passages in reference to different subjects with unknown words underlined.
Students would need to circle the words that helped them determine the meaning and
write in (short answer) their prediction of the meaning of the unknown word and why
they came to this prediction.