BY TA H S E E N A K H TA R D A P U B L I C S C H O O L O & A L E V E L S P H A S E V I I I

S U B J E C T: E N G L I S H S Y N D I C AT E 2

V E N U E : D A S K B Z

Lesson Plan

Action plan for grade III term 2011-2012

BOOK: OLW Launch into Literacy book 2 by Jane Medwell and Maureen Lewis

Unit 1: Writing to express First term:

Unit 2: Writing to inform

Unit 3: Writing to entertain

Final term Unit 4: Writing to explain

Unit 5: Writing to persuade

Writing to Express

Unit 1: Expression of ideas through poems

Writing a travel poemPg. 16-17

Date: 22nd -26th August 2011Duration: 8 periods

Goal

To adopt 21st century approaches to enhance students English reading, writing and comprehension skills.

To change strategies with students to promote critical thinking.

Focus on encouraging students instead of praising.

Encourage collaboration among students.

Objective

Analyzing :To read, distinguish and comprehend the

poems. Evaluating: Compare the common theme and different

ways of exploring it. Creativity: Composing and assembling a poem. To use language creatively and effectively in

writing the poems.

Instructional strategies and tasks

To Plan: The students will be asked to read travel

poems in order to analyze and evaluate the theme.

They will brain storm all the different ways of travelling and different means of transport.

The students will decide which of their ideas they will use from the brain storming.

They will be given more choices of processes products and content in projects.

Instructional strategies and tasks

To Draft: To compose a poem, students will work on language of

the sentences playing around with lots of different ideas. Students will draft the poems. To Revise:Revise the poems making alterations for improvement.To Publish:They will publish the poem for final display.They will display in the form of any travel vehicle eg: car, plane ship etc.

Anticipated challenges and solution

Challenge: Parents might not like the idea of composing

a poem by grade III students.

Solution:Teacher will inform the parents prior to the

starting of the project.

Timeline

Analyzing the poemsUnit 1 pg. no 4-9

Analyzing the poems unit 1 pg. no 11-15

Evaluating the poems unit1 pg. no 16-17

Creativity Publishing a poem

Week 4

Week 1

Week 2

Week 3

Evaluation

Assessment Points Criteria:As the children work, the teacher may wish to observe to what extend they can do the following:

Plan First Draft Revise Edit Final draft Publish

Resources

OLW Launch into Literacy book 2 by Jane Medwell and Maureen Lewis.

Teachers Guide OLW Launch into Literacy book 2 by Jane Medwell and Maureen Lewis.

Intel teach program getting started course manual.

Internet. Word processing and multimedia.

Conclusion

By implementing the newly acquired 21st century teaching approaches students will be empowered and will appreciate and gain better knowledge in writing a travel poem.

THANK YOU!