Notebook 3/19 Andy Schiller

Vocabulary Mini Lesson

Topic: Learning Vocabulary through Word Posters
Grade: Third Grade
Time: 30 minutes

1. Introduce the Topic- The teacher will ask the kids if they ever heard or read a word before that sounds exactly like another word that you know but that it means something completely different?

2. Share Examples- The teacher will then write words on the board which sound alike but which have different meanings. The teacher will first want to show the class how the two words are pronounced the same by reading both of them aloud to the class. The teacher will then ask the class if they sound any different from one another. Once the class has agreed that it does, then ask them if anything is different between the two words. If the students don’t reply correctly, than the teacher should point out how the spelling and definitions of the two words difference even though they are pronounced the same way.

a. Examples of words to use: see-sea, days-daze, I-eye, right-write, threw-through

3. Provide Information- The teacher will then explain how two words that sound exactly the same but mean something completely different are called homophones or homonyms. The teacher will explain how these words can easily confuse readers when they are trying to interpret text or speech, but that they especially confuse people when they try to write the words down. The teacher will then tell the class that a poster of homophone words will be hung on the wall for the class to view whenever they are reading, writing, or whenever they want.

4. Guide Practice- The teacher will then explain to the kids that each of them will be asked to pick one homophone each that they would like to learn more about from the chart. The teacher will then explain the activity by telling the class that they will each be making posters to conceptualize the difference between their homophones. The teacher will explain that every poster must include the correct spelling of the two words, a picture that articulates each word, and a sentence that uses each word in the correct context.

5. Assess Learning- The teacher will assess the learning of the class by observing the posters the class made during the minilesson. The teacher will look to make sure if the students correctly answered the three tasks that were assigned to them to complete for the poster. The students should have written each word correctly, they should also have two pictures and sentences that articulate the meaning of the two different words correctly. If the student has met all three of these tasks, than they should have learned the objective.