Grade: 3^rd-4^th

NE Standards: 

-         4.1.2  By the end of the fourth grade, students will demonstrate the use of multiple strategies to increase their vocabulary.

-         4.2.1  By the end of the fourth grade, students will write using standard English (conventions) for sentence structure, usage, punctuation, capitalization and spelling.

-         4.2.3  By the end of the fourth grade, students will revise and edit narrative compositions.

Integrated discipline:

-         vocabulary

Objectives:

-         The students will be able to accurately add words to the story.

-         The students will be able to use creativity in writing their story.

-         The students will accurately recognize the correct part of speech to be added in the blanks.

Assessment:

-         Students will use the prompt sentence to write a story adding only the correct part of speech.

-         Students will add appropriate words to write their story.

-         Students will share their story with the class.

Materials:

-         pencil or pen

-         a copy of T’was the Night Before Christmas by Clement Moore

-         a typed version of the poem by Clement Moore with missing words

Procedures:

Anticipating Set:

-         Ask the students if they have ever heard this poem before and if they knew it was a poem.

-         Ask them if they know what a Mad Lib is?

    Vocabulary:

-         T’was

-         Coursers

-         Tarnished

-         Peddler

-         Down of a thistle

-         Noun

-         Verb

-         Adjective

-         Plural

    Activities:

-         Read the poem to the students

-         Tell them to pay close attention to the poem because they will be writing their own version of it later.

-         Discuss the poem and its contents like, rhyming words and figurative language.

-         Give the students the version of the poem with sections missing:  T’was the night before ________, when all through the _________ not a creature was stirring, not even a _______________.  In this sentence you ask for nouns.

-         Give them the whole poem with missing parts, change the parts of speech that need to be added (have them add nouns, verbs, adjectives, etc.)

-         Have the students fill in all the blanks with appropriate words.

    Provision for Special Needs:

-         Help the student decide which part of speech needs to go in each blank.

Closure:

-         Have the students share their stories with one another

Reference:

-         http://faldo.atmos.uiuc.edu/CLA/LESSONS/2533.html

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