Jeanna Rowell Lesson Plan

Curriculum Standard:
2nd grade
4. The Student will apply Standard English.
a. The student will use Standard English. (DOK1)
6) Begin to use adjective.

Big Idea: Identifying and use adjectives.

Preparation
1. Introducing adjectives by reading Hairy, Scary, Odinay, What is an Adjective?
2. After the book is read TW recap by talking about some of the adjectives in the book.

Guidance
1. TW model giving a sentence that describes an object in the room using as many adjectives as possible to describe the object. TW prompt students to help him/her with the adjectives that would describe the features of the object.
2. TW ask a student to give a sentence using adjectives that will tell about the shirt that the teacher is wearing using as many adjectives as possible. Teacher will guide the student through the process of think of as many adjectives as possible.
3. TW look at someone and tell about that person’s hair using as many adjectives as possible.
4. TW have another student look at the door and describe the features of door using as many adjectives as possible. TW guide the student through the process by calling on other students to help with some words that describe the features of the door.

Application
TW pair the students with partners. Each partner will have a piece of paper and pencil. TW ask the students to write a sentence that describes their partner’s shirt using as many adjectives as possible. TW then ask the students to do the same thing, only this time, describe their partner’s hair. Teacher can think of many other things the pair can describe if time permitts. On the smart board TW have a list of adjectives along with adjectives from the book for the students to use as a reference for spelling, and for examples of adjectives. At the end of the class, as a whole, the class will read some of the sentences that the students have written describing their partners. The students will turn the papers into the teacher to be assessed on how well they got the concept individually. TWS “When you go home today, I want you to look around your environment in your home, and think of some words that you can use to describe what you are looking at. What are those words called? That is right, adjectives. Write some of these adjectives down on a piece of paper and have it for class tomorrow. We will look at your list of adjectives and create sentence using the words from your list, and we will began discussing how adjectives and nouns work together."