Name: Taeshia Dawkins, Nicole Miller, Susan Fearon

School: St. Francis Primary

Grade: 2

Term: 2 Unit 2

Date: March 12, 2020

Subject: Language Arts

Time: 9:00-10:00

Strands: Writing (communication, language structure, spelling and punctuation), listening and

speaking, reading (reading for information, reading for meaning and enjoyment, reading with

fluency and recognition).

Topic: Story writing using pictures

Focus question: Why do I need transportation and how do people and goods get from place to

place?

Prior knowledge: Students should already know how to compose sentences and they should be

exposed to characters and settings.

Attainment target:

 Develop approaches to the writing process to enable them to organise their ideas into a

coherent structure including, layout, sections and paragraphs.

 Write to narrate, to persuade and for a range of transactional purposes, using SJE and JC

appropriately and incorporating multi-media approaches to their writing.

 Write well- constructed paragraphs which have linking sentences within and between

them.
Objectives: By the end of the lesson, students should be able to:

Cognitive

1. Identify the characters/setting in the pictures.

2. Explain the different parts of a story.

Psychomotor

3. Arrange the pictures in a sequential order.

4. Create sentences based upon the pictures that are grammatically correct.

Affective

5. Critique each other’s work.

Materials: scissors, newspaper, glue, cartridge paper.

Skills: Discuss/share ideas, write sentences.

Key vocabulary: story writing, characters, setting, conflict, plot, resolution.

Procedure:

Engage:

The teacher will introduce the topic with a song about story writing in which the teacher will

mount a chart on the board with the words to the song so that the students can read from it. The

teacher will sing the song first and then the students will sing along with the teacher. Afterwards,

the students will be asked questions based upon the song.

Assessment: Students will communicate their ideas confidently and clearly to the teacher.
Explore:

The students will be placed in pairs in which they will be given some picture cards depicting a

story where they will arrange the pictures in sequential order and identify the characters and

setting in the pictures as well as other details in the pictures that they recognize which will assist

them in writing a story about the picture.

Assessment: Students will accurately identify the elements of a story.

Explain:

The teacher will present the students with a chart depicting the elements of a story and will

engage in a discussion about it.

Assessment: Students will discuss and share ideas confidently and clearly with each other.

Extend/elaborate:

Students will create a narrative using the pictures as a stimulus.

Assessment: Students will discuss/share ideas with each other and they will read for meaningful

information.

Evaluate:

The teacher will instruct the students to do a brief recap of the lesson in the form of a show and

tell. This is where the students will go to the front of the classroom and state what they have

learned throughout the lesson and will discuss what they have written about the pictures that they

had been given.

Assessment: Students will review notes and will discuss and make appropriate suggestions for

correcting the errors.