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Lesson Plans: Reading: Amelia Bedelia: Idioms

Lesson Plan

Integrating Technology & Pedagogy

Jessica Drinkwine

Lesson Title: Amelia Bedelia “picks up” Idioms

Target Age/Grade Level: 9 years/ 3^rd grade

Content Area Standards: Language Arts Essential Curriculum Goals Objective

Standard 2: the student will demonstrate COMPREHENSION when listening and reading for literary experience, to be informed, and to perform a task.

Apply Comprehension strategies when listening/reading for literary experience

a. before reading

b. during reading

c. after reading

Standard 3: Students will read, write, listen, and speak for critical analysis and evaluation.

• Evaluate the content by identifying

- the author’s purpose

- important and unimportant details

- whether events, actions, characters, and/or settings are realistic

- statements of fact and opinion

• Compare and contrast characters, plot, and setting in literary works, with assistance

• Analyze information on the basis of new or prior knowledge and/or personal experience

Technology Standards:

1: Basic operations and concepts

Students demonstrate a sound understanding of the nature and operation of technology systems.

Students are proficient in the use of technology.

3: Technology productivity tools

Students use technology tools to enhance learning, increase productivity, and promote creativity.

4: Technology communications tools

Students use telecommunications to collaborate, publish, and interact with peers, experts, and other audiences

Lesson Objective(s): Given the book, Amelia Bedelia by Peggy Parish students will comprehend and be able to display knowledge of idioms with 100% accuracy. Given a digital camera, students will be able to take a picture of their group acting out an idiom with 100% accuracy. They will tell the name of the idiom and what the student really should be doing.

Introduce the Learning Activity: I would start by asking the students: “How many of you take the bus to school everyday?” Tell them that something has been confusing you. Ask if in the morning do they actually carry a bus to school in their backpack. After the students have laughed and understood then I will introduce the Amelia Bedelia book to the students. I will ask them to look at the cover of the book and predict what Amelia Bedelia does for an occupation.

Provide Information: I would start off the lesson by reading the book aloud to the students. After finishing the book the students and I will recall some of the funny actions that Amelia Bedelia did. I will take out a chart that is divided into two groups; what Amelia did and what should Amelia have done. We will go brainstorm tasks that she did and what she should have done. I will then introduce the term, Idiom. I will ask the students if they know what these expressions are called. I will then put up on the board that they are called idioms. I will have the students say it with me and then I will give them a definition of idiom. I will tell them that an idiom is a phrase or expression that has hidden meanings. The expressions don’t exactly mean what they say. I reinforce this by asking what the term was again and then have them repeat the definition. Then we will do a worksheet together that will give definitions to some popular idioms. We will then brainstorm other expressions that they might have already heard that were not addressed in the story. If an expression is used I will give them the correct meaning.

Provide Practice: After all the information is given I will then have the students go to the computer lab and print off the webquest from my website. I will have the students get into pairs or groups of three. I will explain to the students that I will be passing out a slip of paper to each one of the groups. After all the groups have received their slip I will explain that the children going to be using digital cameras and will take a picture or series of pictures that have them acting out the idiom they received. I will then show them an example that I have taken beforehand of me acting out an idiom expression. The students will then have time to do this. I will allow at the maximum 30 minutes. I will then print out the pictures. The students will present their picture to the class addressing what the idiom is, what they are actually doing in the picture, and what they should be doing in the picture. I will then tape the pictures up above an idiom label. All this information is presented in the webquest.

Provide Knowledge of Results: The class will then make flashcards with idioms. The students will be able to play memory. On one set of cards there will be a picture and on another there will be a phrase. The students will have to match the correct phrase with the correct picture. There will be ones that might be tricky. They will practice this in class with my supervision

Review the Activity: At the end of the day I will review all we have learned. I will go over the chart we made for the Amelia Bedelia book, the pictures we took, and the webquest. We will review all our brainstorming ideas and look at the definition.

Evaluation of Activity: To evaluate the students’ knowledge of idioms I will have homework worksheet that they must take home. The students must also take their flashcards home. I will send home a sheet and have the parents sign it to bring back if they played the flashcards with their child at least twice. At the end of the week I will have a mini quiz on some of the phrases that we learned.

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Jessica Drinkwine
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last updated: August 31, 2006