Lesson Plan Format:

Teacher: Jonathan Kendall Grade Level: 3rd

I. Content and Standards:

Third Grade ELA.

1.4 CC.1.4.3.D Create an organizational structure that includes information grouped
and connected logically with a concluding sentence or section.

Prerequisites: State the understanding and knowledge that is necessary for this
lesson.

Students must be able to write sentences. Students must understand that there are
different reasons to write.

II. Instructional Objective: Indicate what is to be learned and what you will teach- this
must be a complete objective. Write this objective in terms of what an individual
student will do.

As a whole group, students will be introduced to the sections of a friendly letter. They
will later identify the sections of a friendly letter. Finally they will be asked to
produce an original friendly letter. Using questioning and
discussion techniques.

Instructional Procedures:

Communicating with Before: I will tell students that writing a letter or email is the most frequent type of
students.
writing you will probably do as a grown up. I will ask students to share what they
already know about letter writing. I will show a short video that introduces the
sections of letter writing to students. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2d-
0dIimgY. I will then model for students writing a letter. I will write:
 Communicating with students.

November 12th, 2018

Dear Mrs. Dinney,

Hi, I hope you are doing well. Attached is my lesson plan for letter writing, please
let me know what you think. I am excited to teach this to the students!

Have a nice day,

Mr. Kendall

Students will be given a sheet with the sections of a friendly letter labeled, we will
reference this sheet to label the sections of my friendly letter.
Engaging students in
learning.

During: With their partners students will be given another sample friendly letter.
They will be expected to label the different sections of the letter and correct any
errors.

After: Students will create an original friendly letter and label the portions of the
letter. As a whole class we will discuss what we have learned about writing a friendly
Using letter.
assessment in
instruction.
III. Materials and Equipment:.

Students will have a packet that contains all of the pages needed.

IV. Assessment/Evaluation:

Students who correctly label all five sections will be scored proficient. Students who
correctly label three or four sections will be scored approaching proficiency. Students
who correctly label two sections will be scored limited proficiency. Students who
correctly label one or zero sections will be scored not proficient.
Demonstrating
flexibility and
responsiveness. V. VII. Differentiation: Individualized Activities:

Students that are struggling will receive assistance from their partner or from me.

Students who understand will be encouraged to write another friendly letter.

VI. Technology: A smartboard will be used view the video and to write the teacher
created original friendly letter on.
VII. Self-Assessment I will see how many students are able to produce and accurately
label a friendly letter.