Sierra Nevada College Elementary Lesson Plan Sample

Teacher Candidate: Sasha Gamble Lead Teacher:

Grade/Subject: 3rd - ELA District:
Lesson Content: Unusual Plurals School:
SNC Supervisor: Time Allotted: 35 minutes

Materials, including technology:

Word wall with definition, notebooks, pencils, Irregular Noun cards for game.

Standard(s), including literacy for all content areas and/or SMP

L.3.2 Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation and
spelling when writing.

How will learning be assessed at the end of the unit/learning cycle (summative):
Learning will be assessed by the accuracy of the completed notebooking activity.

Objective(s): high cognitive demand for diverse learners Cognitive Level (DOK or Bloom’s)
1.I will be able to identify and write irregular plural nouns. DOK Level 1

2. DOK [Type text]

Connections to past learning or experience, building background

The concept of irregular plural nouns will be introduced with familiar example (foot/feet).

Essential Vocabulary Definitions

Irregular Plural Noun A noun that has different spelling when plural.

Strategy for teaching new vocabulary

Word Wall: At the beginning of the lesson introduce the word and definition and match them on the
word wall.

Sequence and Scope of Instruction (include instructional Instructional Strategy estimated

strategies, questions, opportunities for meaning making time
through discourse and other engagement strategies,
formative assessments, opportunities for metacognition,
grouping, differentiation and transitions)
Introduce the vocabulary to the class and give the Direct Instruction, Whole group 10
example of foot/feet. As a class discuss what is different discussion, Think Pair Share minutes
about this noun compared to most other plural nouns
(pluralized nouns typically end with an S). Have students
TPS to come up with some other Irregular Plural nouns
they are familiar with. Write examples on the board and
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prompt the class to come up with others that are not

mentioned but that are in the Pair Them Up game that
follows.

Pair Them Up – This game is a memory matching game Small Group Game 10
using irregular plural nouns. Shuffle the cards and lay minutes
them face down in a 5x5 grid. Each player turns over two
cards at a time. If it is a match (or if the word doesn’t
have a match such as fish, sheep and deer) the player
keeps the cards and goes again.

On the board write the words Wife, Leaf, Life, Wolf, Individual Work 10
Knife, Man, Woman, Mouse, Goose, Tooth, Child, Foot & minutes
Person. Students will copy these words in their
notebooks one under the other and next to each word
they will write the Irregular Plural Noun that
corresponds to the word.

Closure : specific activity to review content

On their exit ticket students will write one irregular plural noun that they did not know before today.

Teacher Candidate Reflection on the lesson (after delivery)

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SNC: April 3, 2014