Lesson Plan

Name Nicole Cruz

Lesson #, Lesson Title #1
Grade Level & Class Title Beginner-Intermediate Level – 4th grade ESOL
Students
Period or Block (# of minutes) 20-30 minutes

Instructional Context
o What do I know about my students that will inform this lesson? Are there any particular student strengths,
interests, background, needs related to the lesson?
- Ideally, this lesson plan would be catered for a group of beginner-intermediate level 4th grade ESOL students who
speak a variety of languages such as, Arabic, Swahili, Vietnamese, Burmese, and Spanish.

o How does this lesson connect with and build on the previous lessons?
- This lesson is will serve as a tool for students when answering writing prompts that require one paragraph or
essay long responses.

Central Focus
o What is the central focus for the content in the learning segment?
- The central focus of this learning segment is to expose ESOL students to the appropriate use of punctuation in
various sentences when writing and practice when to capitalize a word (at the beginning, proper nouns, days of
the week, holidays, proper adjectives, etc.)

Learning Objectives and Assessments

Content Objective
- SWBAT identify punctuation marks and
capitalization rules by completing activities and
worksheets on each topic using the context of the
sentences provided.
Assessment Plan
- Have student complete worksheets after reviewing
key concepts separately.
- Giving students an assessment where they will have
to use skills learned in both punctuation and
capitalization.

Language Objective Assessment Plan

- SWBAT recognize when to capitalize proper nouns,
holidays, and words in the beginning of a sentence
by interpreting the sentences on the worksheet.
- SWBAT classify the appropriate punctuation marks
by completing the punctuation mark puppets
activity and “guess my punctuation” worksheet.
- Complete activities where they have to identify
when to capitalize proper nouns, holidays, etc.
- Complete worksheet that tests knowledge on
punctuation marks.
- Giving students an assessment where they will have
to use skills learned in both punctuation and
capitalization.
Instructional Strategies and Learning Tasks (Procedures & Timelines)

o Introduction/Launch/Hook
Time Instructional Strategies/Learning Tasks/Questions to Ask Materials
12 min Review Definitions of Punctuation • Google slides
• Review purpose and definition of exclamation point, • Punctuation mark puppets
question mark, and period and give examples in context. • Worksheet

Q: “Who can give me an example of a type of

punctuation mark?” “We use it every time we end a
sentence…”

Transition to Punctuation Puppets Activity

• Each will receive 3 punctuation marks: period, question
mark, and exclamation point.

• Each student will pull out a random sentence strip from the
can and read the sentence aloud.

• Students will use their puppet to answer what they think

should go at the end of the sentence.

• Students will work in pairs and independently to answer.

Punctuation Worksheet (if time permits)

• Students will be provided a “guess my punctuation
worksheet” and will have 3 minutes to complete it or more
if needed.

Translate as necessary

Transition to Capitalization practice

o Middle of the lesson

Time Instructional Strategies/Learning Tasks/Questions to Ask Materials
15 min Review Definition of when to Capitalize and Rules • Google slides
• Review definition of when to capitalize words in a • Halloween sentence cards
sentence and explain chart of the “rules” and give • Worksheet
examples and ask students for their own.

Conduct Halloween Activity

• Using the Halloween sentence cards, show them to
students and have them identify in pairs or as a group
which words should be capitalized in the sentence.

• Review answers provided on the Google slides.

Capitalization Worksheet (if time permits)

• Students will be provided a capitalization worksheet with
five questions to rewrite the sentence using the rules
 reviewed in the beginning and in the sentence cards
activity.

Translate as necessary

Transition to wrap up

o Closing the lesson

Time Instructional Strategies/Learning Tasks/Questions to Ask Materials
2 mins Wrap Up • Google slides
• Praise students for their hard work, remind them of what • Assessment worksheet
they learned in today’s class.
o Great job today reviewing the use of punctuation
and capitalization!
o Inform students on expectations for worksheet they
are taking home for homework or the following
week as an assessment.

• Ask students what is one thing they learned from the mini
lesson.