Remember, I teach English. If you are required to cite standards for every lesson, you may have to do some adapting for standards in other subject areas.

Rules Lesson Plan

Subject Area: Language Arts

Grade Level: 9th Grade Intervention

1. Learning Goals

After this lesson the students will be able to:

Name the three classroom "Zones" as per classroom rules
Describe the expectations associated with the zones
Paraphrase the one or more rules

2. Content Standards for this lesson:

Domain: Reading

Strand: Word Analysis, decoding

Word Recognition

Read aloud narrative and expository text fluently and accurately and with appropriate pacing, intonation, and expression.

Vocabulary and Concept Development

Monitor expository text for unknown words, or words with novel meanings, by using word, sentence, and paragraph clues to determine meaning.

3. Connection to prior learning

This lesson is the first of three in the unit on the classroom rules.

Following lessons will cover:

· Specific practice of daily procedures

o Entering the room

o Re-setting desks for pairs activities

o Gathering belongings at class end

· Interpreting and applying the rules using scenarios

4. Prerequisite knowledge and skills needed

Expected prerequisite knowledge:

· The students will need to listen and take polite turns in talking

5. Anticipated difficulties

· Students not on task - teacher attention and refer to the 'No Parking Zone' rule

· Those with lower reading skill will need specific support with both pronunciation and writing.

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Instructional Sequence

1. Communicating the learning goals to students

Use an overhead transparency that simply says "RULES" with three clipart images that represent the Zones

Generates curiosity - leads to warm-up exercise

2. Instructional strategies

----0 - Overhead and students write the day's agenda

----1 - Warm-Up - guess the three rules from the graphics - list made on the board

Engaging students, teacher preparation for framing the rules

presentation.

----2 - Direct Instruction - Pronunciation, definition and examples/synonyms

Teacher presentation and instruction connecting full class reading aloud

----3 - Pair share - a situation of follow or not follow assigned rule

Provide practice in comprehension and in following directions to begin

and end sharing time

----4 - Writing activity - individual completion

Students paraphrase rules - teacher modeling, class discussion, then

individual writing of at least one paraphrase

----5 - Class sharing of paraphrases

Lesson closure

3. Activities in which students will be engaged during each phase of the lesson.

----1 - Pair share

----2 - Listening, responding to class instruction

----3 - Individual writing

----4 - Class sharing

4. Grouping of students for each phase of the lesson

Students are assigned a partner for the pair share, then work independently and in a whole class.

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6. Materials, technology, and other resources the teacher and students will use for this lesson.

Overhead transparency for warm-up, agenda discussion, and pair share reports

7. Progress monitoring of students during lesson

1 - Oral review of pair discussions.

2 - Listening to student responses

8. Data Collection

1 - Writing sheets are collected and reviewed both for participation grading and as a guide to students needing support.

9. Lesson closure

Class share of writing

10. Follow-up activities, extensions, and homework

Unit continues

11. Evidence of Student Learning

During the pair share response teacher will take note of the responses as written by the scribe to assess understanding of basic concepts. Teacher will visually check student participation.

Teacher modeling of the paraphrase writing will show students what is expected during the activity. Teacher proximity and assistance will help students stay on task and assess individual ability to complete the activity.

After teaching the entire three-lesson unit on classroom rules, I do give a quiz that COUNTS for a grade. I get good enough results with this to keep doing it! Try it yourself; you will be surprised!

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