Revised Lesson: Exploring Descriptive Language with an Intro to Rhyming Words

Original lesson:  pages 41-45. ELA lesson By Ms. Rogers.

Learning Objectives:

1. Read and determine content-specific language.
2. Determine the meaning of unfamiliar words.
3. Produce rhyming words.
4. Identify descriptive language.

Materials:

•  “When the Moon is Full”: A Lunar Year Book
•  Notebook
• Vocabulary Worksheets 
• How’s the Weather Guessing Game- Video 

Digital Tools:

• Laptop
• Google Classroom
• Google Slides 
• The Internet
• i-Ready

Lesson Outline

Section 1: Introduction (15 minutes)

Objective: Engage students and introduce key concepts.

• Activity: Display an interactive slideshow with images and audio descriptions of weather conditions (sunny, stormy, etc.).
• Discussion: Ask students what kinds of weather they think of when they hear certain descriptive words.
• Materials: Interactive slideshow, digital projector.

Section 2: Vocabulary Exploration (20 minutes)

Objective: Determine the meaning of unfamiliar words.

• Activity: Students will access a digital worksheet via their tablets or computers. The worksheet will include a vocabulary list and a word bank.
• Task: Students will classify words under “Stormy” or “Sunny” by dragging and dropping them into the correct column.
• Materials: Digital worksheets, tablets/computers.

Section 3: Reading Activity (30 minutes)

Objective: Read and determine content-specific language.

• Activity: Students will read “When the Moon is Full” using an online reader that includes text-to-speech and highlighting features for accessibility.
• Discussion: After reading, students will discuss in pairs the descriptive language used in the book.
• Materials: Online reader with accessibility features.

Section 4: Writing Activity (20 minutes)

Objective: Create a word bank and write sentences.

• Activity: Students will complete a digital worksheet to create a word bank of weather-related words. They will then use two words to write sentences, underlining each weather word.
• Support: Provide sentence starters and a digital dictionary to help with unfamiliar words.
• Materials: Digital worksheet, online dictionary.

Section 5: How’s the Weather Guessing Game? (15 minutes)

• Objective:  To deepen retention of learning with an engaging game.
• Activity: Interactive guessing game in which students get asked how’s the weather. They have 10 rounds to respond and guess correctly.
• Materials: The Internet. Games4esl.com

Section 6: Assessment and Reflection (10 minutes)

Objective: Assess understanding and retention.

• Activity: Students will complete a short quiz on the content covered using i-Ready.
• Reflection: Students will share one thing they learned about descriptive language and rhyming words.

Materials: i-Ready, reflection worksheet.