LESSON PLAN

Name: Mara Ramsey Date: Lesson Start and End Time:

Academic Area: Grade Level: 1 Co-op initials with date:

Pre-Instruction Planning
Topic Beach: free writing! choose your favorite activity at the beach
PA Anchor/Standard or CC.1.4.1.B
Eligible Content Identify and write about one specific topic.

Lesson Objectives The student will be able to describe their favorite activity at the
beach.
Materials Crayons
Pencils
pipe cleaners
Scissors
white paper
different colors of construction paper
whole punch
Precut base of flip flop for tracing
Finished example of activity
Planning for Learners Differentiation: (only 1)
Content-
Process- Students can choose to write to dictate their sentences
Product- students will have two flip flops made from paper.
One flip flop will have a drawing of them doing an activity at
the beach, and the other one will be a written explanation.
Environment: having the desks in groups of four so they can
discuss things with each other.
Modifications: Give examples of things to do at the beach/give
them books to read while doing this for examples
Read books right before the craft
Accommodations: Student can write two sentences instead of a
paragraph

Modifications/Accommodations: (ex. Student w glasses need

to sit in front) (student who has trouble staying focused
when reading, only uncover one line at a time) (extra time on
an assignment)
Students who need more assistance can be closer to the front
 of the classroom OR have them seated next to children who
are ahead/able to help and assist
Modification- same exam but one student has 4 answer
choices and others have 3 answer choices
Accommodation- same test and one student gets more time,
modifying or lowering expectations

Lesson Presentation
Introduction Engaging: hook and a way to assess prior knowledge.
What do you remember about writing?
Sequence of activities Scripted: write every word you want to say
including assessments Intentionally think through each step

Should I write a smiley face in the middle of my paper? No

Do we start each sentence with a lowercase or capital letter?
Capital.
How do we end our sentences? With a period.

Bullet point
- Hello class, today we are going to be doing an activity
that focuses on free writing.
- Now to re-cap what we have been learning, what do you
remember about writing? *Students answer* Now class,
what do you remember about free writing? *Students
answer* *Shifts focus onto beach*
- Today we are going to be doing a free write on your very
own flip flops that you create. *Show class my example*
- We are going to be doing some jumping around from
exploring free writing to our activity. First, we are going
to cut out the base of the flip flop. One group can get up
and grab two pieces of construction paper, make sure
they are the same color. Each table has one pre-cut base
for each of you to trace two flip flops on your
construction paper.
- *FINISH*

Think about how to pass out materials and how much

preparation by the teacher is required

Lesson Wrap-up Practice an example or today we learned ___, who can remind
me of ____
Who can remind me of how we start our sentences?
Self-Evaluation