Leytia started with some quick formative assessment. She asked "Where do sounds belong?" "In a word" was the answer she was looking for. "Where do words belong?" "In a sentence" the children replied.
She wrote up a sentence "My hair is black." "What's the noun?" she asked. "What's the adjective?"
She got the children to describe their hair and eyes and supply her with some sentences. She got them to identify the noun and adjective in each one and reinforced the idea that an adjective describes a noun, you can't have an adjective without a noun.
Leytia then brought out a "feely box." The children had to reach in one by one to feel what was inside without looking in the box. They then had to come up with words to describe what they felt. She wrote them up classified into "Feel" and "Touch."
She then got the children to guess what the object was. They guessed glue, slime and paint. It turned out to be a small shoe covered in slime. She asked what the noun was..."shoe!"
She then gave the lowest group a writing frame, which she wrote in the modelling book. This was "The slime felt_____ and ____. She got them to write a new sentence with the same structure. Prinze, for example, wrote "The slime felt cold and sticky."
Takeaway: I liked the way Leytia scaffolded the lowest group by giving them a frame to use and giving them the freedom to choose the adjectives they wanted. This would work with lots of different topics. I also liked the way she did a quick formative assessment at the start of the lesson to check the children's understanding of a noun and an adjective.
PTC 4. demonstrate commitment to ongoing professional learning and development of personal professional practice i. identify professional learning goals in consultation with colleagues ii. participate responsively in professional learning opportunities within the learning community iii. initiate learning opportunities to advance personal professional knowledge and skills
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