LESSON 5 Grammar and Time Connectives

ORIENTATION
Introduce students to time connectives through a SMART board activity. Activity is a sequencing activity (link to knowledge in previous lesson) where students reorder paragraphs as a class. Ask students how they worked it out (Answer: time connectives). Ask questions to find out students knowledge, ie. What is a time connective and when are they used.

GUIDED DISCOVERY
Explain what time connectives are, when they are used-how they order, connect and make paragraphs flow. Use big book to show this. Expand students time connective words (vocab) through brainstorming and teacher giving students new words.

EXPLORATION
Students participate in a 10 minute write where they are given a list of time connectives (structure) to write from, ie. In the beginning, next, eventually, meanwhile, finally, using these time connectives they write a recount in ten minutes based on the topic local area/community.

REFLECTION
Individually students complete a cloze passage filling in the blanks with time connectives. As a class create a poster of time connectives that the class can then use in their writing. A-Throughout each lesson phase teacher asks questions, such as; why are time connectives used? Teacher also provides feedback for 10 minute write to ensure students are using appropriate time connectives. Explain to the students why certain time connectives do or dont make sense. Work samples from this lesson will also be used to assess students knowledge.