Teaching Language Arts in the 2nd and 3rd Grades

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Teaching Language Arts in the 2nd and 3rd Grades
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Basic Form

• Introduction
• Student Activity
• Closure

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Lesson Planning

• Introduction
• Get attention
• Relate to past knowledge/ experience
• Create a need to know
• Share the objective in general terms

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Start with Expository Writing

• Example 2nd grade prompts
• Most people like one particular animal more than
  others. Explain why your favorite animal is your
  favorite animal.
• Everyone has responsibilities. Write a paper
  explaining a responsibility you have now or will
  have in the future and why you shoulder that
  responsibility.

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• Get attention
• Take in objects
• Give a question
• Surprise your students
• Relate to past knowledge/ experience
• Create a need to know
• Why are they learning this?
• Make it exciting
• Share the objective in general terms

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Lesson Planningbehind each component needs to be
a different teachers name

• Introduction
• Get attention
• Relate to past knowledge/ experience
• Create a need to know
• Share the objective in general terms

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Student Activity

• What will the elementary students do in writing?
• Students need to active and involved.
• Another DSU teacher explain activity.
• All DSU teachers are involved in interacting with
  children.
• May want to divide students into small groups,
  but you do not have to do that.

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Closure

• Providing students with opportunity to reflect
  express what they are learning.
• Another DSU teacher will lead.

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Structure of Lesson Planin a 30 minute time
period

• Introduction (about 5 minutes)
• 4 DSU names
• Student Activity
• maybe one or more DSU teacher/s name
• Closure (about 5 minutes)
• 1 DSU name

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Wednesdays planning

• Plan your first teaching period starting on
  October 18th
• Plan how you are going to continually change jobs
  and writing up a common lesson plan is one of the
  jobs.
• A common reflection after the first lesson

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Planning

• Reflection or evaluation
• What did you learn from your last lesson?
• Introduction
• Student Activity
• Closure

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Teachers may request
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Do not.

• Wear hats
• Chew gum
• Wear tops cut to low in front

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Be

• On time
• Prepared for the lesson
• Plan carefully they are your students for the
  rest of the semester. You will be telling
  parents what their child can do.
• Get the most of this experience.