Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Lesson Planning
This post goes out to all my fellow classmates, teachers, and professors. For my next Tuesday I have to plan a lesson to help teach the students of my third grade class how to use a thesaurus. I am looking for any ideas as to how to make this less confusing for students. I have already written something that the students will edit and underlined the words that I would like them to look up in the thesaurus. I was wondering if this sounds too confusing, and if anyone has any ideas how to instruct students how to use a thesaurus. I was going to model, but I am afraid it will not be enough. Any suggestions would be much appreciated, and feel free to ask more about my lesson if you don't understand something, I know I didn't provide a great deal of detail here.
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Since this is for third grade, I think the underlining idea with them searching is a great start. The modeling idea doesn't sound bad. I think that if you show the children a few examples and then let them try it, they should understand the concept. It would be benefical for the students and you to walk around and guide the lesson with children independently, those that are having trouble or really do not know what to do.
This way you are able to see if you have to revise the lesson for next time. Or if you notice that a lot of the children are having difficulties, you could reteach the breif lesson.
I never really thought about teaching the thesaurus, so it is hard for me to give you more advice. Sorry..hope i was some help. Let me know what you decide to do, I am interested in hearing about how it went.
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