Lesson Plan #3 Title: Commas with Quotes

Performance Objective: Fifth grade students will use a scaffolding handout to use commas

correctly when quoting. They will do this with 98% accuracy.

Resources or Materials Needed: Students’ self made writing notebooks, pencil, quoting and

comma handout

Time: 60 minutes

Step 1: Pre-Instructional Activities: I will call the class to the carpet with their writing

notebooks and a pencil. I will put a sentence on the board that is missing commas, in order to

gain students’ attention. The sentence will read:

According to Dr. Smith doctors save lives and that’s not something everyone can say.

I will allow the class to consider this sentence for a few minutes.

Step 2: Content Presentation: I will ask for a volunteer to read the sentence. I will then ask if

the sentence makes any sense. The class should say that it doesn’t. I will tell the class that it is

missing something very important, and I will ask if anyone knows what it missing. I will wait for

the right answer, or provide it for the class. “It is missing commas and quotation marks.”

I will then show the class what the performance objective is, the class will re-write it in

words that makes sense to them. I will ask a volunteer to write it on our learning target wall, and

all students will write it in their notebooks.

Step 3: Learner Participation: I will ask the class why quotations are important? What are they

for? How are they used? We will have a whole class discussion. I will summarize the discussion
by stating, “There are a lot of reasons why we use quotations and commas, and sometimes it can

be very tricky to tell when to use them. That is why I’m going to give you a handout to help give

you some guidance.”

I will show students the handout that provides examples of how to use quotes and

commas correctly. We will then revise and edit my essay together as a class. Students will be

dismissed to begin looking at their own writing.

Step 4: Assessment: Students will be given an exit slip and asked to write down one example of

their use of commas and quotations. This is how I will assess whether or not they are progressing

toward mastery.

Step 5: Follow-Through Activities: We will discuss this further when we peer edit in the next

lesson. Some students may have more experience with comma usage, which will help them be

leaders for the class.

Lesson Plan Summary: Behaviorism was used in this lesson. Much of the lesson was taught

directly to the students from the knowledge of the teacher. This includes, what quotation marks

are used for, and how to use commas with quotes.. The assessment is also that of behaviorism,

because it will provide students with immediate feedback as their quotations are either correct or

incorrect.